Angelique Kidjo
E321910
Angelique Kidjo is a Grammy-winning Beninese singer-songwriter and activist renowned for her powerful voice, genre-blending Afro-pop music, and advocacy for human rights and African culture.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Angelique Kidjo canonical | 9 |
| Angélique Kidjo | 4 |
| Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo | 1 |
| Kidjo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3054096 — 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: Angelique Kidjo Context triple: [Yemi Alade, collaboratedWith, Angelique Kidjo]
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A.
Yemi Alade
Yemi Alade is a Nigerian singer and songwriter renowned for her energetic Afrobeats hits and vibrant pan-African musical style.
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B.
Seun Kuti
Seun Kuti is a Nigerian musician, bandleader of Egypt 80, and political activist who continues and expands the Afrobeat legacy pioneered by his father, Fela Kuti.
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C.
Youssou N’Dour
Youssou N’Dour is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, and bandleader renowned for popularizing mbalax music worldwide and for his influential role in global pop and world music.
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D.
Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba was a renowned South African singer and civil rights activist, celebrated globally as "Mama Africa" for her powerful anti-apartheid music and advocacy.
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E.
Ledisi
Ledisi is a Grammy-winning American R&B and jazz singer, songwriter, and actress known for her powerful vocals and soulful, genre-blending style.
- 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: Angelique Kidjo Target entity description: Angelique Kidjo is a Grammy-winning Beninese singer-songwriter and activist renowned for her powerful voice, genre-blending Afro-pop music, and advocacy for human rights and African culture.
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A.
Yemi Alade
Yemi Alade is a Nigerian singer and songwriter renowned for her energetic Afrobeats hits and vibrant pan-African musical style.
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B.
Seun Kuti
Seun Kuti is a Nigerian musician, bandleader of Egypt 80, and political activist who continues and expands the Afrobeat legacy pioneered by his father, Fela Kuti.
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C.
Youssou N’Dour
Youssou N’Dour is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, and bandleader renowned for popularizing mbalax music worldwide and for his influential role in global pop and world music.
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D.
Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba was a renowned South African singer and civil rights activist, celebrated globally as "Mama Africa" for her powerful anti-apartheid music and advocacy.
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E.
Ledisi
Ledisi is a Grammy-winning American R&B and jazz singer, songwriter, and actress known for her powerful vocals and soulful, genre-blending style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (80)
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: Angelique Kidjo Description of subject: Angelique Kidjo is a Grammy-winning Beninese singer-songwriter and activist renowned for her powerful voice, genre-blending Afro-pop music, and advocacy for human rights and African culture.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Angélique Kidjo
subject surface form:
Timeless
subject surface form:
Angélique Kidjo
this entity surface form:
Angélique Kidjo
subject surface form:
Angélique Kidjo
this entity surface form:
Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo
subject surface form:
Angélique Kidjo
this entity surface form:
Kidjo
this entity surface form:
Angélique Kidjo
this entity surface form:
Angélique Kidjo