Mahamadou Issoufou
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Mahamadou Issoufou is a Nigerien politician who served as President of Niger from 2011 to 2021 and is recognized for his democratic leadership and governance reforms.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mahamadou Issoufou canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8933459 — 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: Mahamadou Issoufou Context triple: [Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, notableRecipient, Mahamadou Issoufou]
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A.
Thomas Boni Yayi
Thomas Boni Yayi is a Beninese economist and politician who served as President of Benin from 2006 to 2016.
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B.
Bassirou Diomaye Faye
Bassirou Diomaye Faye is a Senegalese politician and former tax inspector who rose from opposition activism to become the country’s president on a reformist, anti-corruption platform.
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C.
Paul Biyoghé Mba
Paul Biyoghé Mba is a Gabonese politician who served as Prime Minister and has held several key governmental positions in Gabon.
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D.
Guillaume Soro
Guillaume Soro is an Ivorian politician and former rebel leader who served as prime minister and later speaker of the National Assembly, playing a central role in his country’s turbulent political and military crises.
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E.
Abdoulaye Wade
Abdoulaye Wade is a Senegalese politician and lawyer who served as President of Senegal from 2000 to 2012 and played a prominent role in the country’s political liberalization and infrastructure development.
- 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: Mahamadou Issoufou Target entity description: Mahamadou Issoufou is a Nigerien politician who served as President of Niger from 2011 to 2021 and is recognized for his democratic leadership and governance reforms.
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A.
Thomas Boni Yayi
Thomas Boni Yayi is a Beninese economist and politician who served as President of Benin from 2006 to 2016.
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B.
Bassirou Diomaye Faye
Bassirou Diomaye Faye is a Senegalese politician and former tax inspector who rose from opposition activism to become the country’s president on a reformist, anti-corruption platform.
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C.
Paul Biyoghé Mba
Paul Biyoghé Mba is a Gabonese politician who served as Prime Minister and has held several key governmental positions in Gabon.
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D.
Guillaume Soro
Guillaume Soro is an Ivorian politician and former rebel leader who served as prime minister and later speaker of the National Assembly, playing a central role in his country’s turbulent political and military crises.
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E.
Abdoulaye Wade
Abdoulaye Wade is a Senegalese politician and lawyer who served as President of Senegal from 2000 to 2012 and played a prominent role in the country’s political liberalization and infrastructure development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
head of state
ⓘ
human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Niger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| election |
2011 Nigerien presidential election
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
2016 Nigerien presidential election NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 2021 ⓘ |
| familyName | Issoufou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | politics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Mahamadou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headOfGovernmentOf | Niger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
democratic socialism
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social democracy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
democratic leadership
ⓘ
governance reforms ⓘ peaceful transfer of power in Niger ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
French
ⓘ
Hausa ⓘ |
| memberOf | Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Mahamadou Issoufou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Nigerien ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
oversaw democratic elections in Niger
ⓘ
promoted constitutional order in Niger ⓘ |
| notableWork | implementation of governance reforms in Niger ⓘ |
| office | President of Niger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officeContested | President of Niger ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | President of Niger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | West Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Niamey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 2011 ⓘ |
| workLocation | Niamey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Mahamadou Issoufou Description of subject: Mahamadou Issoufou is a Nigerien politician who served as President of Niger from 2011 to 2021 and is recognized for his democratic leadership and governance reforms.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.