Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola
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Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola was a Nigerian businessman, publisher, and pro-democracy politician widely regarded as the presumed winner of the annulled 1993 presidential election and a symbol of the country’s struggle for democracy.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola canonical | 4 |
| Abiola | 1 |
| M. K. O. Abiola | 1 |
| Moshood Abiola | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2713084 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola Context triple: [Moshood Abiola National Stadium, namedAfter, Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola]
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A.
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was Nigeria’s first Prime Minister, a key nationalist leader in the country’s independence movement, and a prominent statesman in early post-colonial Africa.
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B.
Bola Tinubu
Bola Tinubu is a Nigerian politician and former governor of Lagos State who became president of Nigeria in 2023.
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C.
Murtala Muhammed
Murtala Muhammed was a Nigerian military general and the country’s Head of State from 1975 until his assassination in 1976, remembered for his anti-corruption stance and efforts to reform government.
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D.
Oluremi Tinubu
Oluremi Tinubu is a Nigerian politician and former First Lady of Lagos State who serves as the First Lady of Nigeria and has been a prominent senator and advocate for social and women’s issues.
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E.
Abraham Attah
Abraham Attah is a Ghanaian actor best known for his acclaimed breakout performance as a child soldier in the film "Beasts of No Nation."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola Target entity description: Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola was a Nigerian businessman, publisher, and pro-democracy politician widely regarded as the presumed winner of the annulled 1993 presidential election and a symbol of the country’s struggle for democracy.
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A.
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was Nigeria’s first Prime Minister, a key nationalist leader in the country’s independence movement, and a prominent statesman in early post-colonial Africa.
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B.
Bola Tinubu
Bola Tinubu is a Nigerian politician and former governor of Lagos State who became president of Nigeria in 2023.
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C.
Murtala Muhammed
Murtala Muhammed was a Nigerian military general and the country’s Head of State from 1975 until his assassination in 1976, remembered for his anti-corruption stance and efforts to reform government.
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D.
Oluremi Tinubu
Oluremi Tinubu is a Nigerian politician and former First Lady of Lagos State who serves as the First Lady of Nigeria and has been a prominent senator and advocate for social and women’s issues.
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E.
Abraham Attah
Abraham Attah is a Ghanaian actor best known for his acclaimed breakout performance as a child soldier in the film "Beasts of No Nation."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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democracy activist ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy | Democracy Day in Nigeria ⓘ |
| commemoratedOn | June 12 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
British Nigeria
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Nigeria ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1937-08-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1998-07-07 ⓘ |
| detainedBy |
Sani Abacha military government
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surface form:
Nigerian military government
|
| detentionStartDate | 1994 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Glasgow
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surface form:
Glasgow University
University of Glasgow ⓘ |
| electionContested | 1993 Nigerian presidential election ⓘ |
| employer |
ITT Nigeria
ⓘ
International Telephone & Telegraph ⓘ
surface form:
International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
|
| ethnicGroup | Yoruba people ⓘ |
| familyName |
Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Abiola
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| fieldOfStudy | accounting ⓘ |
| founded | Concord newspaper group ⓘ |
| givenName |
Kashimawo
ⓘ
Moshood ⓘ Olawale ⓘ |
| honor | posthumous national recognition in Nigeria ⓘ |
| knownAs | presumed winner of the annulled 1993 Nigerian presidential election ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Yoruba ⓘ |
| movement | pro-democracy movement in Nigeria ⓘ |
| name | Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | 1993 Nigerian presidential election ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | over 20 ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
politician ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| owned | Concord Press of Nigeria ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Abeokuta ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Abuja ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | pro-democracy ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Social Democratic Party of Nigeria ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chairman of ITT Nigeria ⓘ |
| ranForOffice | President of Nigeria ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| shortName |
Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
M. K. O. Abiola
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| spouse |
Kudirat Abiola
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Simbiat Atinuke Abiola ⓘ |
| symbolOf | Nigeria’s struggle for democracy ⓘ |
| workedAs | chartered accountant ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola Description of subject: Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola was a Nigerian businessman, publisher, and pro-democracy politician widely regarded as the presumed winner of the annulled 1993 presidential election and a symbol of the country’s struggle for democracy.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola
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shortName
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Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
M. K. O. Abiola
Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola
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familyName
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Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Abiola
this entity surface form:
Moshood Abiola