Hissène
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Hissène is the given name of Hissène Habré, the former president of Chad who was later convicted of crimes against humanity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hissène canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9193311 — 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: Hissène Context triple: [Hissène Habré, givenName, Hissène]
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A.
Siad Barre
Siad Barre was a Somali military leader and authoritarian ruler who led Somalia from 1969 to 1991, overseeing a socialist-oriented regime that ended in civil war and state collapse.
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B.
Hussein Mohamed Farrah
Hussein Mohamed Farrah is a Somali military and political figure best known as the son of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid and a leading commander within his father’s faction during the Somali civil war.
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C.
Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke
Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke is a Somali politician and diplomat who has twice served as Somalia’s prime minister and is the son of former Somali president Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke.
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D.
Hassan Gouled Aptidon
Hassan Gouled Aptidon was a Djiboutian statesman who led the country to independence and served as its founding president for over two decades.
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E.
Douaouda
Douaouda is a coastal town and commune in northern Algeria known for its Mediterranean shoreline and location within the wider Algiers metropolitan area.
- 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: Hissène Target entity description: Hissène is the given name of Hissène Habré, the former president of Chad who was later convicted of crimes against humanity.
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A.
Siad Barre
Siad Barre was a Somali military leader and authoritarian ruler who led Somalia from 1969 to 1991, overseeing a socialist-oriented regime that ended in civil war and state collapse.
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B.
Hussein Mohamed Farrah
Hussein Mohamed Farrah is a Somali military and political figure best known as the son of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid and a leading commander within his father’s faction during the Somali civil war.
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C.
Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke
Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke is a Somali politician and diplomat who has twice served as Somalia’s prime minister and is the son of former Somali president Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke.
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D.
Hassan Gouled Aptidon
Hassan Gouled Aptidon was a Djiboutian statesman who led the country to independence and served as its founding president for over two decades.
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E.
Douaouda
Douaouda is a coastal town and commune in northern Algeria known for its Mediterranean shoreline and location within the wider Algiers metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| chargedWith |
crimes against humanity
ⓘ
torture ⓘ war crimes ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
crimes against humanity
ⓘ
torture ⓘ war crimes ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Chad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Chad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Senegal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1942-08-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-08-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Institut d'études politiques de Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Daza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Habré NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Hissène NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headOfGovernment | Chad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
Forces Armées du Nord
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
National Union for Independence and Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | first former head of state convicted of crimes against humanity in another country’s courts ⓘ |
| notableWork | Reign characterized by widespread human rights abuses ⓘ |
| occupation |
military leader
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 1990 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime | 1982 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Faya-Largeau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Dakar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | President of Chad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Senegal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sentence | life imprisonment ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| trialBy | Extraordinary African Chambers in the Senegalese Courts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trialHeldIn | Dakar 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: Hissène Description of subject: Hissène is the given name of Hissène Habré, the former president of Chad who was later convicted of crimes against humanity.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.