Paul Rusesabagina
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Paul Rusesabagina is a Rwandan former hotel manager and humanitarian best known for sheltering and saving over a thousand people during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, an act later depicted in the film "Hotel Rwanda."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Rusesabagina canonical | 3 |
| Tatiana Rusesabagina | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4755404 — 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: Paul Rusesabagina Context triple: [Wallenberg Medal, hasRecipient, Paul Rusesabagina]
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Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera
Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera is a prominent Ugandan LGBT rights activist known internationally for her courageous advocacy against homophobia and for human rights in Uganda.
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B.
Anthony Mamo
Anthony Mamo was a Maltese statesman and jurist who became the first President of Malta after previously serving as the country’s last Governor-General.
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C.
Laurent-Désiré Kabila
Laurent-Désiré Kabila was a Congolese revolutionary and politician who became president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997 after overthrowing Mobutu Sese Seko and led the country during the early years of the Second Congo War.
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D.
Tindyebwa Agaba Wise
Tindyebwa Agaba Wise is a Rwandan-born British activist and former child soldier who became known for his work on human rights and refugee issues after being adopted by actress Emma Thompson.
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E.
Louise Mushikiwabo
Louise Mushikiwabo is a Rwandan politician and diplomat who has served as her country’s foreign minister and is a prominent leader in international Francophone affairs.
- 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: Paul Rusesabagina Target entity description: Paul Rusesabagina is a Rwandan former hotel manager and humanitarian best known for sheltering and saving over a thousand people during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, an act later depicted in the film "Hotel Rwanda."
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A.
Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera
Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera is a prominent Ugandan LGBT rights activist known internationally for her courageous advocacy against homophobia and for human rights in Uganda.
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B.
Anthony Mamo
Anthony Mamo was a Maltese statesman and jurist who became the first President of Malta after previously serving as the country’s last Governor-General.
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C.
Laurent-Désiré Kabila
Laurent-Désiré Kabila was a Congolese revolutionary and politician who became president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997 after overthrowing Mobutu Sese Seko and led the country during the early years of the Second Congo War.
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D.
Tindyebwa Agaba Wise
Tindyebwa Agaba Wise is a Rwandan-born British activist and former child soldier who became known for his work on human rights and refugee issues after being adopted by actress Emma Thompson.
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E.
Louise Mushikiwabo
Louise Mushikiwabo is a Rwandan politician and diplomat who has served as her country’s foreign minister and is a prominent leader in international Francophone affairs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Rwandan person
ⓘ
hotel manager ⓘ human ⓘ humanitarian ⓘ |
| arrestedBy | Rwandan authorities ⓘ |
| authorOf | An Ordinary Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Immortal Chaplains Prize for Humanity
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lantos Human Rights Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Pax Christi International Peace Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Presidential Medal of Freedom NERFINISHED ⓘ Wallenberg Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| charge | terrorism-related offenses in Rwanda ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Belgium
ⓘ
Rwanda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticizedBy | Rwandan government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfArrest | 2020-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1954-06-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfConviction | 2021-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfPublication | 2006 ⓘ |
| dateOfRelease | 2023-03 ⓘ |
| employer |
Hotel des Diplomates
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hôtel des Mille Collines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Hutu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Rusesabagina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | memoir ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| hasCause |
genocide prevention
ⓘ
human rights advocacy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Being the real-life inspiration for the film "Hotel Rwanda"
ⓘ
Providing shelter to Tutsi and moderate Hutu refugees ⓘ Saving more than 1,000 people during the 1994 Rwandan genocide ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ Kinyarwanda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mannerOfRelease | presidential commutation of sentence ⓘ |
| movement | Rwandan opposition politics ⓘ |
| name | Paul Rusesabagina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Sheltering refugees at Hôtel des Mille Collines during the 1994 Rwandan genocide ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 6 ⓘ |
| occupation |
hotel manager
ⓘ
humanitarian ⓘ political activist ⓘ |
| participantIn | Rwandan genocide ⓘ |
| placeOfArrest | Kigali, Rwanda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Murama-Gitarama, Rwanda-Urundi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Don Cheadle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | founder of the PDR-Ihumure party ⓘ |
| publisherOfWork | Viking Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Belgium
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | protected refugees at Hôtel des Mille Collines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sentence | 25 years in prison ⓘ |
| spouse | Tatiana Rusesabagina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Hotel Rwanda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportedBy | international human rights organizations ⓘ |
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: Paul Rusesabagina Description of subject: Paul Rusesabagina is a Rwandan former hotel manager and humanitarian best known for sheltering and saving over a thousand people during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, an act later depicted in the film "Hotel Rwanda."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tatiana Rusesabagina