Mansa Souleyman
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Mansa Souleyman was a 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire known for restoring political stability and overseeing a period of economic prosperity and strong centralized authority following the reign of Mansa Musa.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mansa Souleyman canonical | 1 |
| Mansa of the Mali Empire | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3241985 — 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: Mansa Souleyman Context triple: [Mali Empire, notableRuler, Mansa Souleyman]
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A.
Mansa Magha
Mansa Magha was a 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire, known for succeeding Mansa Musa and presiding over a period of relative decline in the empire’s power and prosperity.
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B.
Mansa Sakura
Mansa Sakura was a powerful and wealthy ruler of the Mali Empire, remembered for expanding its territory and strengthening its prosperity in West Africa.
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C.
Sundiata Keita
Sundiata Keita was a 13th-century West African ruler who established and unified the Mali Empire, laying the foundations for one of Africa’s greatest medieval states.
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D.
Mansa Musa
Mansa Musa was a 14th-century emperor of the Mali Empire, famed for his immense wealth, lavish pilgrimage to Mecca, and promotion of Islamic scholarship and architecture in West Africa.
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E.
Mansa
Mansa is a city in the Malwa region of Punjab, India, known primarily as an agricultural and cotton-growing center.
- 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: Mansa Souleyman Target entity description: Mansa Souleyman was a 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire known for restoring political stability and overseeing a period of economic prosperity and strong centralized authority following the reign of Mansa Musa.
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A.
Mansa Magha
Mansa Magha was a 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire, known for succeeding Mansa Musa and presiding over a period of relative decline in the empire’s power and prosperity.
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B.
Mansa Sakura
Mansa Sakura was a powerful and wealthy ruler of the Mali Empire, remembered for expanding its territory and strengthening its prosperity in West Africa.
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C.
Sundiata Keita
Sundiata Keita was a 13th-century West African ruler who established and unified the Mali Empire, laying the foundations for one of Africa’s greatest medieval states.
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D.
Mansa Musa
Mansa Musa was a 14th-century emperor of the Mali Empire, famed for his immense wealth, lavish pilgrimage to Mecca, and promotion of Islamic scholarship and architecture in West Africa.
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E.
Mansa
Mansa is a city in the Malwa region of Punjab, India, known primarily as an agricultural and cotton-growing center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mansa of Mali
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human ⓘ ruler ⓘ |
| capital | Niani ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Mali Empire ⓘ |
| diplomaticRelations |
North Africa
ⓘ
surface form:
Maghreb
North Africa ⓘ
surface form:
North African Muslim states
|
| economicActivity |
gold trade
ⓘ
salt trade ⓘ trans-Saharan commerce ⓘ |
| era | medieval West Africa ⓘ |
| follows | Mansa Musa ⓘ |
| governmentForm | monarchy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
maintaining strong centralized authority
ⓘ
overseeing economic prosperity in the Mali Empire ⓘ restoring political stability in the Mali Empire ⓘ |
| language |
Mande languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Mandé languages
|
| notableEvent |
reassertion of central control over Mali’s provinces
ⓘ
revival of trans-Saharan trade routes ⓘ |
| partOf | Keita dynasty ⓘ |
| policy |
centralization of royal authority
ⓘ
strengthening of imperial administration ⓘ support of long-distance trade ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Mansa Souleyman
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Mansa of the Mali Empire
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| predecessor | Mansa Musa ⓘ |
| regionRuled |
Middle Niger region
ⓘ
surface form:
Sahel
western Sudan ⓘ
surface form:
Western Sudan
|
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| sourceMention |
Ibn Khaldun’s writings
ⓘ
medieval Arabic chronicles ⓘ |
| successor | Mansa Qasa ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 14th century ⓘ |
| title |
King of Mali
ⓘ
Mansa ⓘ |
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: Mansa Souleyman Description of subject: Mansa Souleyman was a 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire known for restoring political stability and overseeing a period of economic prosperity and strong centralized authority following the reign of Mansa Musa.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mansa of the Mali Empire