Wommat (The Guide)
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Wommat (The Guide) is a landmark 1994 world music album by Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour that helped bring his blend of mbalax and pop to a global audience.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wommat (The Guide) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8787295 — 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: Wommat (The Guide) Context triple: [Youssou N’Dour, notableWork, Wommat (The Guide)]
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A.
The Guide
"The Guide" is a track by Kid Cudi from his album "Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin'" that showcases his introspective, atmospheric hip-hop style.
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B.
The Guide
The Guide is the fictional, electronic travel guidebook central to Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," known for its humorous and irreverent entries about life in the universe.
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C.
Guida
Guida is the feminine given name corresponding to the masculine name Guido, used primarily in Italian and related languages.
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D.
The Wayfarer
The Wayfarer is a narrative song from Bruce Springsteen’s album *Western Stars*, reflecting themes of travel, aging, and introspection.
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E.
Rihla
Rihla is the famous travelogue of the 14th-century Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta, chronicling his extensive journeys across the Islamic world and beyond.
- 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: Wommat (The Guide) Target entity description: Wommat (The Guide) is a landmark 1994 world music album by Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour that helped bring his blend of mbalax and pop to a global audience.
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A.
The Guide
"The Guide" is a track by Kid Cudi from his album "Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin'" that showcases his introspective, atmospheric hip-hop style.
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B.
The Guide
The Guide is the fictional, electronic travel guidebook central to Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," known for its humorous and irreverent entries about life in the universe.
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C.
Guida
Guida is the feminine given name corresponding to the masculine name Guido, used primarily in Italian and related languages.
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D.
The Wayfarer
The Wayfarer is a narrative song from Bruce Springsteen’s album *Western Stars*, reflecting themes of travel, aging, and introspection.
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E.
Rihla
Rihla is the famous travelogue of the 14th-century Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta, chronicling his extensive journeys across the Islamic world and beyond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Youssou N’Dour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsBlendOf | mbalax and pop ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Senegal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| decadeOfRelease | 1990s ⓘ |
| describedAs | landmark world music album ⓘ |
| featuredArtistOnTrack | Neneh Cherry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
mbalax
ⓘ
pop music ⓘ world music ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle | The Guide (Wommat) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTrack | 7 Seconds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| helpedBringToGlobalAudience | Youssou N’Dour’s blend of mbalax and pop ⓘ |
| helpedPopularize |
Youssou N’Dour internationally
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mbalax ⓘ |
| influenced | global perception of African popular music ⓘ |
| language |
English
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Wolof NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | crossing over to Western pop audiences ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Youssou N’Dour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalTitleLanguage | Wolof NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfArtistDiscography | Youssou N’Dour discography ⓘ |
| performer | Youssou N’Dour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1994 ⓘ |
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: Wommat (The Guide) Description of subject: Wommat (The Guide) is a landmark 1994 world music album by Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour that helped bring his blend of mbalax and pop to a global audience.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.