Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was a Nigerian politician who served as the country's president from 2007 until his death in 2010.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Umaru Musa Yar'Adua canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11858459 — 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: Umaru Musa Yar'Adua Context triple: [Peoples Democratic Party, producedPresident, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua]
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A.
Shehu Musa Yar’Adua
Shehu Musa Yar’Adua was a prominent Nigerian military officer and politician, former Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, and influential pro-democracy figure who died in prison under the Abacha regime.
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B.
Yakubu Dogara
Yakubu Dogara is a Nigerian politician and lawyer who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019.
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C.
Yakubu Gowon
Yakubu Gowon is a former Nigerian military head of state who ruled from 1966 to 1975 and played a central role during the Nigerian Civil War.
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D.
Atiku Abubakar
Atiku Abubakar is a Nigerian politician and businessman who served as Vice President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007 and has been a prominent, recurrent presidential contender.
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E.
Muhammadu Bello
Muhammadu Bello was the second Sultan of Sokoto and a prominent 19th-century Islamic scholar and statesman in what is now northern Nigeria.
- 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: Umaru Musa Yar'Adua Target entity description: Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was a Nigerian politician who served as the country's president from 2007 until his death in 2010.
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A.
Shehu Musa Yar’Adua
Shehu Musa Yar’Adua was a prominent Nigerian military officer and politician, former Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, and influential pro-democracy figure who died in prison under the Abacha regime.
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B.
Yakubu Dogara
Yakubu Dogara is a Nigerian politician and lawyer who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019.
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C.
Yakubu Gowon
Yakubu Gowon is a former Nigerian military head of state who ruled from 1966 to 1975 and played a central role during the Nigerian Civil War.
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D.
Atiku Abubakar
Atiku Abubakar is a Nigerian politician and businessman who served as Vice President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007 and has been a prominent, recurrent presidential contender.
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E.
Muhammadu Bello
Muhammadu Bello was the second Sultan of Sokoto and a prominent 19th-century Islamic scholar and statesman in what is now northern Nigeria.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
head of state
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human ⓘ politician ⓘ president ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1951-08-16 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Katsina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Katsina State NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Region, British Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart-related illness ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Nigeria ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2010-05-05 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Abuja
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Ahmadu Bello University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Barewa College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| election | 2007 Nigerian presidential election ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Hausa ⓘ |
| familyName | Yar'Adua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Musa Yar'Adua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
Chemistry
ⓘ
Education ⓘ |
| fullName | Umaru Musa Yar'Adua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Umaru NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedTerritory | Katsina State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governorEndTime | 2007-05-29 GENERATED ⓘ |
| governorStartTime | 1999-05-29 GENERATED ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Alhaji ⓘ |
| inaugurationDate | 2007-05-29 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Seven-Point Agenda
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
amnesty program for Niger Delta militants ⓘ electoral reform initiatives ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | People's Democratic Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Lieutenant ⓘ |
| militaryService | Nigerian Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | implementation of Niger Delta amnesty program ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 7 ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 2010-05-05 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime | 2007-05-29 ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Katsina State
ⓘ
President of Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Olusegun Obasanjo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence | Aso Rock Presidential Villa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Shehu Musa Yar'Adua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| signature | Umaru Musa Yar'Adua signature ⓘ |
| spouse | Turai Umaru Yar'Adua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Goodluck Jonathan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vicePresident | Goodluck Jonathan 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: Umaru Musa Yar'Adua Description of subject: Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was a Nigerian politician who served as the country's president from 2007 until his death in 2010.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.