Sarah
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Sarah Onyango Obama was the Kenyan educator and philanthropist best known as the step-grandmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sarah canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11137602 — 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: Sarah Context triple: [Sarah Onyango Obama, givenName, Sarah]
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Sarah
Sarah is the resilient and traumatized protagonist of the British horror film "The Descent," known for her harrowing journey through monster-infested caves.
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Sarah
Sarah is the given first name of the actress and comedian Patsy Kelly.
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Sarah
Sarah is the given name of American actress Sarah Paulson, known for her versatile roles in film and television, particularly in "American Horror Story" and "The People v. O. J. Simpson."
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Sarah
Sarah is the given name of Sarah P. Duke, the philanthropist and namesake of Duke University's Sarah P. Duke Gardens.
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Sarah
Sarah is the given name of the renowned 19th- and early 20th-century French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt, often called "the Divine Sarah."
- 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: Sarah Target entity description: Sarah Onyango Obama was the Kenyan educator and philanthropist best known as the step-grandmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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Sarah
Sarah is the given name of Sarah Jane Negley Mellon, a prominent American socialite and philanthropist from the influential Mellon family.
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Sarah
Sarah is the given name of Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam C. J. Walker, a pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist in the early 20th century.
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Sarah
Sarah is the first name of Sally Jewell, the former U.S. Secretary of the Interior and business executive.
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Sarah
Sarah is a key matriarch in the Hebrew Bible, revered as the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac in the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
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Sarah
Sarah, Lady McCorquodale is a British aristocrat best known as the elder sister of Diana, Princess of Wales, and for her work in public service and charitable activities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educator
ⓘ
human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Elder of the Order of the Burning Spear NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | illness ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kenya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1922-01-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-03-29 ⓘ |
| describedBySource | obituaries in international media ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Luo people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Obama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
education
ⓘ
philanthropy ⓘ |
| founded | Mama Sarah Obama Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Sarah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonorificPrefix | Mama Sarah Obama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | supporting education for orphans and girls in Kenya ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Dholuo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
English ⓘ Swahili ⓘ |
| livedIn | Kogelo, Kenya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeName | Sarah Onyango Obama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the step-grandmother of Barack Obama ⓘ |
| notableWork | charitable work in rural western Kenya ⓘ |
| occupation |
educator
ⓘ
philanthropist ⓘ |
| partOf | Obama family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kenya
NERFINISHED
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Rachuonyo District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Kenya
NERFINISHED
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Kisumu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Barack Obama
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Barack Obama Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence |
Kogelo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Siaya County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Hussein Onyango Obama 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: Sarah Description of subject: Sarah Onyango Obama was the Kenyan educator and philanthropist best known as the step-grandmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.