Mama Sarah
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Mama Sarah is the affectionate honorific name of Sarah Onyango Obama, the Kenyan educator and philanthropist who was the step-grandmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mama Sarah canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11137645 — 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: Mama Sarah Context triple: [Sarah Onyango Obama, hasHonorificTitle, Mama Sarah]
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Mama
Mama is a recurring supporting character in the animated television series "Rocket Power," known for her role within the show's surfing and extreme-sports-centered world.
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Mama
Mama is a key supporting character in the video game "Death Stranding," a brilliant yet tragic scientist who aids protagonist Sam Porter Bridges with her expertise in chiral technology.
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C.
Mama
"Mama" is a dark, emotionally intense 1983 song by the English rock band Genesis, known for its haunting atmosphere and Phil Collins's distinctive vocal delivery.
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D.
Mama
"Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
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E.
Mama
Mama is a 2013 supernatural horror film known for its eerie ghost story about two feral sisters and the mysterious maternal entity that follows them.
- 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: Mama Sarah Target entity description: Mama Sarah is the affectionate honorific name of Sarah Onyango Obama, the Kenyan educator and philanthropist who was the step-grandmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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A.
Mama
Mama is a recurring supporting character in the animated television series "Rocket Power," known for her role within the show's surfing and extreme-sports-centered world.
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B.
Mama
Mama is a key supporting character in the video game "Death Stranding," a brilliant yet tragic scientist who aids protagonist Sam Porter Bridges with her expertise in chiral technology.
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C.
Mama
"Mama" is a dark, emotionally intense 1983 song by the English rock band Genesis, known for its haunting atmosphere and Phil Collins's distinctive vocal delivery.
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D.
Mama
"Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
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E.
Mama
Mama is a 2013 supernatural horror film known for its eerie ghost story about two feral sisters and the mysterious maternal entity that follows them.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Barack Obama family member
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educator ⓘ human ⓘ non-profit organization ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ state order ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Elder of the Order of the Burning Spear NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Kogelo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | illness ⓘ |
| country |
Kenya
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Kenya ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kenya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1922-01-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-03-29 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Luo people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Obama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
education
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orphans welfare ⓘ widows welfare ⓘ |
| founded | Mama Sarah Obama Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Sarah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonorificName | Mama Sarah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Dholuo
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English ⓘ Swahili ⓘ |
| nativeName | Sarah Onyango Obama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being step-grandmother of Barack Obama ⓘ |
| notableWork |
advocacy for girls’ education in rural Kenya
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supporting education for orphans in Kenya ⓘ |
| occupation |
educator
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philanthropist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kenya Colony
NERFINISHED
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Nyanza Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Rachuonyo District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Kenya
NERFINISHED
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Kisumu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refersTo | Sarah Onyango Obama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Barack Obama Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence |
Kenya
NERFINISHED
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Kogelo NERFINISHED ⓘ Siaya County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Hussein Onyango Obama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stepGrandmotherOf | Barack 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: Mama Sarah Description of subject: Mama Sarah is the affectionate honorific name of Sarah Onyango Obama, the Kenyan educator and philanthropist who was 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.