Malik Obama
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Malik Obama is a Kenyan-American businessman and politician best known as the older half-brother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Malik Obama canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10591417 — 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: Malik Obama Context triple: [Auma Obama, relative, Malik Obama]
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A.
Sasha Obama
Sasha Obama is the younger daughter of former U.S. President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama, who grew up in the public eye during her father's presidency.
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B.
Malia Obama
Malia Obama is the elder daughter of former U.S. President Barack Obama, known for growing up in the public eye during his presidency and later pursuing studies and work in film and television.
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C.
Habiba Akumu Obama
Habiba Akumu Obama was a Kenyan woman best known as the first wife of Hussein Onyango Obama and the paternal grandmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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D.
Mark Obama Ndesandjo
Mark Obama Ndesandjo is an American businessman, author, and pianist known for his work in China and for being a half-brother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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E.
Sarah Onyango Obama
Sarah Onyango Obama was the Kenyan educator and philanthropist known as the step-grandmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama and a prominent advocate for girls’ education.
- 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: Malik Obama Target entity description: Malik Obama is a Kenyan-American businessman and politician best known as the older half-brother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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A.
Sasha Obama
Sasha Obama is the younger daughter of former U.S. President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama, who grew up in the public eye during her father's presidency.
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B.
Malia Obama
Malia Obama is the elder daughter of former U.S. President Barack Obama, known for growing up in the public eye during his presidency and later pursuing studies and work in film and television.
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C.
Habiba Akumu Obama
Habiba Akumu Obama was a Kenyan woman best known as the first wife of Hussein Onyango Obama and the paternal grandmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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D.
Mark Obama Ndesandjo
Mark Obama Ndesandjo is an American businessman, author, and pianist known for his work in China and for being a half-brother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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E.
Sarah Onyango Obama
Sarah Onyango Obama was the Kenyan educator and philanthropist known as the step-grandmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama and a prominent advocate for girls’ education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Abongo Malik Obama
NERFINISHED
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Roy Obama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Roy Abongo Obama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Kenya
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| continentOfOrigin | Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Kenya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfPoliticalActivity | Kenya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-03-15 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Nairobi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| electionContested | 2013 Siaya County gubernatorial election ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Luo people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Obama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Barack Obama Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | accounting ⓘ |
| founded | Barack H. Obama Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Malik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBeenInterviewedBy |
Breitbart News
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fox News NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNationality | Kenyan-American ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Auma Obama
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maya Soetoro-Ng NERFINISHED ⓘ Michelle Obama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTwitterAccount | true ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Swahili NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Kezia Aoko NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Malik Obama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | attended Barack Obama’s 2009 U.S. presidential inauguration ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the older half-brother of Barack Obama ⓘ |
| occupation |
accountant
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businessman ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Nairobi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalActivity | ran for governor of Siaya County in Kenya ⓘ |
| positionHeld | executive director of the Barack H. Obama Foundation ⓘ |
| publiclyCriticized | Barack Obama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence |
Kogelo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Barack Obama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportedCandidate | Donald Trump NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportedCandidateInElection | Donald Trump 2016 U.S. presidential campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visitedCountry |
Libya
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Malik Obama Description of subject: Malik Obama is a Kenyan-American businessman and politician best known as the older half-brother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.