Olamide
E61923
Afrobeats musician
hip hop musician
person
rapper
record label executive
record producer
singer
songwriter
street-pop musician
Olamide is a Nigerian rapper, singer, and songwriter widely recognized as one of the most influential figures in modern Afrobeats and street-pop music.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Olamide canonical | 87 |
| Olamide Adedeji | 8 |
| Olamide Baddo | 3 |
| Olamide Gbenga Adedeji | 1 |
| Wale | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T480680 — 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: Olamide Context triple: [Afrobeats, notableArtist, Olamide]
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A.
Ovie
Ovie is a given name and surname used by various individuals, often as a variant spelling of "Ovi."
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B.
Davido
Davido is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and record producer who is one of the leading global stars of contemporary Afrobeats music.
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C.
D'banj
D'banj is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and harmonica player known for his Afrobeat and Afropop hits and international collaborations.
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D.
Wizkid
Wizkid is a Nigerian singer and songwriter widely recognized as one of the leading global stars of Afrobeats music.
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E.
Mr Eazi
Mr Eazi is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur known for pioneering the Banku music sound and popularizing contemporary Afrobeats globally.
- 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: Olamide Target entity description: Olamide is a Nigerian rapper, singer, and songwriter widely recognized as one of the most influential figures in modern Afrobeats and street-pop music.
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A.
Ovie
Ovie is a given name and surname used by various individuals, often as a variant spelling of "Ovi."
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B.
Davido
Davido is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and record producer who is one of the leading global stars of contemporary Afrobeats music.
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C.
D'banj
D'banj is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and harmonica player known for his Afrobeat and Afropop hits and international collaborations.
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D.
Wizkid
Wizkid is a Nigerian singer and songwriter widely recognized as one of the leading global stars of Afrobeats music.
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E.
Mr Eazi
Mr Eazi is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur known for pioneering the Banku music sound and popularizing contemporary Afrobeats globally.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (76)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Afrobeats musician
ⓘ
hip hop musician ⓘ person ⓘ rapper ⓘ record label executive ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ street-pop musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 2010 ⓘ |
| alias |
Baddo
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Baddo Sneh ⓘ Olamide ⓘ
surface form:
Olamide Baddo
|
| associatedAct |
Adekunle Gold
ⓘ
Asake ⓘ CDQ ⓘ Davido ⓘ Fireboy DML ⓘ Lil Kesh ⓘ Naira Marley ⓘ Phyno ⓘ Reminisce ⓘ Wizkid ⓘ |
| birthName |
Olamide
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Olamide Gbenga Adedeji
|
| birthPlace | Bariga, Lagos State, Nigeria ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Nigeria ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1989-03-15 ⓘ |
| employer | YBNL Nation ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Yoruba people ⓘ |
| familyName | Adedeji ⓘ |
| founded | YBNL Nation ⓘ |
| genre |
Afro hip hop
ⓘ
Afro-pop ⓘ Afrobeats ⓘ Nigerian hip hop ⓘ street-pop ⓘ |
| givenName | Olamide self-link ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
Nigerian street-pop music
ⓘ
modern Afrobeats ⓘ |
| instrument | vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English language
ⓘ
Yoruba ⓘ
surface form:
Yoruba language
|
| name | Olamide self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage |
Yoruba
ⓘ
surface form:
Yoruba language
|
| notableAchievement |
recognized as a pioneer of Nigerian street-pop sound
ⓘ
recognized as one of the most influential figures in modern Afrobeats ⓘ |
| notableAward |
City People Entertainment Awards
ⓘ
Headies Award ⓘ
surface form:
Headies Award for Album of the Year
Headies Award ⓘ
surface form:
Headies Award for Best Rap Album
Nigeria Entertainment Awards ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Baddest Guy Ever Liveth
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Carpe Diem ⓘ Durosoke ⓘ Eyan Mayweather ⓘ First of All ⓘ Infinity ⓘ Lagos Nawa ⓘ Motigbana ⓘ Oil and Gas ⓘ Rapsodi ⓘ Rock ⓘ Science Student ⓘ Story for the Gods ⓘ Street OT ⓘ The Glory ⓘ UY Scuti ⓘ Unruly ⓘ Wo!! ⓘ YBNL (album) ⓘ |
| occupation |
rapper
ⓘ
record executive ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Coded Tunes
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YBNL Nation ⓘ |
| residence |
Lagos State
ⓘ
surface form:
Lagos State, Nigeria
|
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: Olamide Description of subject: Olamide is a Nigerian rapper, singer, and songwriter widely recognized as one of the most influential figures in modern Afrobeats and street-pop music.
Referenced by (100)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Olamide Adedeji
subject surface form:
Bariga
this entity surface form:
Olamide Adedeji
this entity surface form:
Olamide Adedeji