Juvénal Habyarimana
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Juvénal Habyarimana was the long-serving president of Rwanda whose authoritarian rule and assassination in 1994 were central to the events leading up to the Rwandan genocide.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Juvénal Habyarimana canonical | 4 |
| Government of Juvénal Habyarimana | 1 |
| Habyarimana | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12665880 — 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: Juvénal Habyarimana Context triple: [Rwandan Civil War, leader, Juvénal Habyarimana]
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A.
Michel Micombero
Michel Micombero was a Burundian army officer and politician who led a 1966 coup, abolished the monarchy, and ruled as the country’s first republican president.
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B.
Jean Kambanda
Jean Kambanda is a former Rwandan politician and prime minister who became the first head of government to plead guilty to genocide before an international tribunal for his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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C.
Paul Kagame
Paul Kagame is the long-serving president of Rwanda, known for leading the country’s post-genocide reconstruction and economic development amid significant controversy over his authoritarian governance.
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D.
Laurent-Désiré Kabila
Laurent-Désiré Kabila was a Congolese revolutionary and politician who became president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997 after overthrowing Mobutu Sese Seko and led the country during the early years of the Second Congo War.
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E.
Théoneste Bagosora
Théoneste Bagosora was a Rwandan military officer widely regarded as a key architect of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity by an international tribunal.
- 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: Juvénal Habyarimana Target entity description: Juvénal Habyarimana was the long-serving president of Rwanda whose authoritarian rule and assassination in 1994 were central to the events leading up to the Rwandan genocide.
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A.
Michel Micombero
Michel Micombero was a Burundian army officer and politician who led a 1966 coup, abolished the monarchy, and ruled as the country’s first republican president.
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B.
Jean Kambanda
Jean Kambanda is a former Rwandan politician and prime minister who became the first head of government to plead guilty to genocide before an international tribunal for his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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C.
Paul Kagame
Paul Kagame is the long-serving president of Rwanda, known for leading the country’s post-genocide reconstruction and economic development amid significant controversy over his authoritarian governance.
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D.
Laurent-Désiré Kabila
Laurent-Désiré Kabila was a Congolese revolutionary and politician who became president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997 after overthrowing Mobutu Sese Seko and led the country during the early years of the Second Congo War.
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E.
Théoneste Bagosora
Théoneste Bagosora was a Rwandan military officer widely regarded as a key architect of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity by an international tribunal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
head of state
ⓘ
human ⓘ politician ⓘ president ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | MRND leader ⓘ |
| cameToPowerBy | military coup d’état ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | plane shootdown ⓘ |
| conflictInvolved | Rwandan Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Rwanda ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1937-03-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1994-04-06 ⓘ |
| deathEvent | shooting down of the Rwandan presidential plane ⓘ |
| education |
Catholic seminaries in Rwanda
ⓘ
military training in Belgium ⓘ |
| era | late 20th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Hutu ⓘ |
| familyName |
Habyarimana
ⓘ
linked to:
Juvénal Habyarimana
|
| fullName | Juvénal Habyarimana ⓘ |
| givenName |
Juvénal
ⓘ
linked to:
Juvenal
|
| governmentTypeDuringRule | one-party state ⓘ |
| headOfGovernment | Rwanda ⓘ |
| implementedPolicy | ethnic quota system favoring Hutu ⓘ |
| influenced | Rwandan political landscape before 1994 genocide ⓘ |
| knownFor |
authoritarian rule in Rwanda
ⓘ
central role in events leading to the Rwandan genocide ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
French
ⓘ
Kinyarwanda ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | assassination ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Rwandan Armed Forces ⓘ |
| militaryRank | major general ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
1973 Rwandan coup d’état
ⓘ
downing of presidential Falcon 50 jet on 1994-04-06 ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| officeEnd | 1994-04-06 ⓘ |
| officeStart | 1973-07-05 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Gasiza, Gisenyi Province, Ruanda-Urundi
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Province, Rwanda
|
| placeOfDeath | near Kigali, Rwanda ⓘ |
| politicalParty | National Revolutionary Movement for Development ⓘ |
| positionHeld | President of Rwanda ⓘ |
| precededBy | Grégoire Kayibanda ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Central Africa ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Kigali, Rwanda
ⓘ
linked to:
Kigali
|
| signedAgreement | Arusha Accords ⓘ |
| spouse | Agathe Kanziga Habyarimana ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Théodore Sindikubwabo ⓘ |
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: Juvénal Habyarimana Description of subject: Juvénal Habyarimana was the long-serving president of Rwanda whose authoritarian rule and assassination in 1994 were central to the events leading up to the Rwandan genocide.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Juvénal Habyarimana
linked to: Juvénal Habyarimana