Yoruba people
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The Yoruba people are a major ethnic group of West Africa known for their rich cultural heritage, complex religious and philosophical traditions, and influential art, music, and political history, particularly in present-day Nigeria and neighboring countries.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yoruba people canonical | 200 |
| Yoruba civilization | 4 |
| Yoruba diaspora | 2 |
| Yoruba | 1 |
| Yoruba Muslims | 1 |
| Yoruba cultural area | 1 |
| Yoruba devotees | 1 |
| Yoruba ethnic group | 1 |
| Yoruba people of Nigeria | 1 |
| Yoruboid peoples | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T540192 — 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: Yoruba people Context triple: [West Africa, hasEthnicGroup, Yoruba people]
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A.
Urhobo people
The Urhobo people are a major ethnic group in southern Nigeria, primarily inhabiting Delta State, known for their rich cultural traditions, language, and involvement in the oil-producing Niger Delta region.
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B.
Ibibio people
The Ibibio people are one of the largest ethnic groups in southeastern Nigeria, known for their rich artistic traditions, complex religious beliefs, and influential role in the cultural and political history of the Niger Delta region.
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C.
Nupe people
The Nupe people are a major ethnic group in central Nigeria known for their rich cultural heritage, traditional crafts, and historical kingdom along the Niger River.
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D.
Idoma people
The Idoma people are an ethnic group primarily located in Nigeria’s Benue State and surrounding Middle Belt areas, known for their rich oral traditions, distinctive red-and-black cultural attire, and vibrant masquerade and festival practices.
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E.
Ogoni people
The Ogoni people are an indigenous ethnic group in Nigeria known for their rich cultural heritage and high-profile environmental and human rights struggles against oil exploitation in their homeland.
- 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: Yoruba people Target entity description: The Yoruba people are a major ethnic group of West Africa known for their rich cultural heritage, complex religious and philosophical traditions, and influential art, music, and political history, particularly in present-day Nigeria and neighboring countries.
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A.
Urhobo people
The Urhobo people are a major ethnic group in southern Nigeria, primarily inhabiting Delta State, known for their rich cultural traditions, language, and involvement in the oil-producing Niger Delta region.
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B.
Ibibio people
The Ibibio people are one of the largest ethnic groups in southeastern Nigeria, known for their rich artistic traditions, complex religious beliefs, and influential role in the cultural and political history of the Niger Delta region.
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C.
Nupe people
The Nupe people are a major ethnic group in central Nigeria known for their rich cultural heritage, traditional crafts, and historical kingdom along the Niger River.
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D.
Idoma people
The Idoma people are an ethnic group primarily located in Nigeria’s Benue State and surrounding Middle Belt areas, known for their rich oral traditions, distinctive red-and-black cultural attire, and vibrant masquerade and festival practices.
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E.
Ogoni people
The Ogoni people are an indigenous ethnic group in Nigeria known for their rich cultural heritage and high-profile environmental and human rights struggles against oil exploitation in their homeland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (82)
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: Yoruba people Description of subject: The Yoruba people are a major ethnic group of West Africa known for their rich cultural heritage, complex religious and philosophical traditions, and influential art, music, and political history, particularly in present-day Nigeria and neighboring countries.
Referenced by (213)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yoruba people of Nigeria
subject surface form:
Angélique Kidjo
this entity surface form:
Yoruboid peoples
this entity surface form:
Yoruba civilization