Salif Keita
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Salif Keita is a renowned Malian singer-songwriter often called the "Golden Voice of Africa," celebrated for blending traditional West African music with global influences.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Salif Keita canonical | 3 |
| Salif Keita Global Foundation | 1 |
| Salif Keïta | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3767542 — 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: Salif Keita Context triple: [Ibrahim Maalouf, hasCollaboratedWith, Salif Keita]
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A.
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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B.
Ali Farka Touré
Ali Farka Touré was a renowned Malian guitarist and singer celebrated for blending traditional West African music with American blues, becoming one of Africa’s most influential musicians.
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C.
Fela Kuti
Fela Kuti was a Nigerian musician, bandleader, and political activist who created and popularized Afrobeat by fusing traditional African rhythms with jazz, funk, and highlife.
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D.
Femi Kuti
Femi Kuti is a Nigerian musician and activist known for modernizing and globally popularizing Afrobeat while continuing the political and musical legacy of his father, Fela Kuti.
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E.
Angelique Kidjo
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.
- 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: Salif Keita Target entity description: Salif Keita is a renowned Malian singer-songwriter often called the "Golden Voice of Africa," celebrated for blending traditional West African music with global influences.
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A.
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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B.
Ali Farka Touré
Ali Farka Touré was a renowned Malian guitarist and singer celebrated for blending traditional West African music with American blues, becoming one of Africa’s most influential musicians.
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C.
Fela Kuti
Fela Kuti was a Nigerian musician, bandleader, and political activist who created and popularized Afrobeat by fusing traditional African rhythms with jazz, funk, and highlife.
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D.
Femi Kuti
Femi Kuti is a Nigerian musician and activist known for modernizing and globally popularizing Afrobeat while continuing the political and musical legacy of his father, Fela Kuti.
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E.
Angelique Kidjo
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Afro-pop musician
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composer ⓘ human ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Ambassadeurs du Motel de Bamako
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Les Ambassadeurs ⓘ Rail Band ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Victoires de la Musique
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surface form:
Victoire de la Musique
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| birthName |
Salif Keita
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Salif Keïta
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| continentOfActivity |
Africa
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Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Mali ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-08-25 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Keita royal lineage
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Mande peoples ⓘ
surface form:
Mandé people
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| founded |
Salif Keita
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Salif Keita Global Foundation
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| genre |
Afro-pop
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Malian traditional music ⓘ Mande music ⓘ World music ⓘ |
| hasMedicalCondition | albinism ⓘ |
| instrument | vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
blending traditional West African music with global influences
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distinctive high-pitched voice ⓘ social activism for people with albinism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Bambara
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French ⓘ Mandinka ⓘ |
| movedTo |
Abidjan
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Bamako ⓘ Paris ⓘ |
| name | Salif Keita self-link ⓘ |
| notableFeature | member of a noble Keita family traditionally discouraged from becoming a griot ⓘ |
| notableNickname | Golden Voice of Africa ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album Amen
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album Folon ⓘ album La Différence ⓘ album Moffou ⓘ album Papa ⓘ album Soro ⓘ album Talé ⓘ song Africa ⓘ song Mandjou ⓘ song Nou Pas Bouger ⓘ song Yamore ⓘ |
| occupation |
griot-style singer
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musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Djoliba, Mali ⓘ |
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: Salif Keita Description of subject: Salif Keita is a renowned Malian singer-songwriter often called the "Golden Voice of Africa," celebrated for blending traditional West African music with global influences.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Salif Keïta
this entity surface form:
Salif Keita Global Foundation