Laurent Gbagbo
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Laurent Gbagbo is an Ivorian politician and former president of Côte d'Ivoire whose contested rule and refusal to cede power after elections played a central role in the country’s political crises and civil conflict.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Laurent Gbagbo canonical | 3 |
| Robert Guéï | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5410000 — 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: Laurent Gbagbo Context triple: [First Ivorian Civil War, keyFigure, Laurent Gbagbo]
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A.
Blaise Compaoré
Blaise Compaoré is a Burkinabé politician and former president of Burkina Faso, known for seizing power in a 1987 coup and later playing a prominent regional role as a mediator in West African conflicts.
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B.
Isaach de Bankolé
Isaach de Bankolé is an Ivorian-French actor known for his distinctive presence in international cinema, including prominent roles in several of Jim Jarmusch’s films.
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Samuel Doe
Samuel Doe was a Liberian military officer-turned-president whose authoritarian rule and eventual overthrow played a central role in triggering the First Liberian Civil War.
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D.
Paul Biyoghé Mba
Paul Biyoghé Mba is a Gabonese politician who served as Prime Minister and has held several key governmental positions in Gabon.
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E.
Patrice Talon
Patrice Talon is a Beninese businessman and politician who has served as the President of Benin since 2016.
- 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: Laurent Gbagbo Target entity description: Laurent Gbagbo is an Ivorian politician and former president of Côte d'Ivoire whose contested rule and refusal to cede power after elections played a central role in the country’s political crises and civil conflict.
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A.
Blaise Compaoré
Blaise Compaoré is a Burkinabé politician and former president of Burkina Faso, known for seizing power in a 1987 coup and later playing a prominent regional role as a mediator in West African conflicts.
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B.
Isaach de Bankolé
Isaach de Bankolé is an Ivorian-French actor known for his distinctive presence in international cinema, including prominent roles in several of Jim Jarmusch’s films.
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C.
Samuel Doe
Samuel Doe was a Liberian military officer-turned-president whose authoritarian rule and eventual overthrow played a central role in triggering the First Liberian Civil War.
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D.
Paul Biyoghé Mba
Paul Biyoghé Mba is a Gabonese politician who served as Prime Minister and has held several key governmental positions in Gabon.
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E.
Patrice Talon
Patrice Talon is a Beninese businessman and politician who has served as the President of Benin since 2016.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
head of state
ⓘ
human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| acquittedOn | 2019-01-15 ⓘ |
| arrestedIn | Abidjan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| arrestedOn | 2011-04-11 ⓘ |
| causeOfPoliticalCrisis | refusal to concede defeat in 2010 presidential election ⓘ |
| chargedWith | crimes against humanity ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | Africa ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Côte d'Ivoire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Côte d'Ivoire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ivory Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| court | International Criminal Court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1945-05-31 ⓘ |
| detainedBy | Forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Paris 7
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 2011-04-11 ⓘ |
| familyName | Gbagbo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalAcquittalConfirmedOn | 2021-03-31 ⓘ |
| founded | Ivorian Popular Front NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Laurent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| handedOverTo | International Criminal Court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headOfGovernmentOf | Côte d'Ivoire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ICCTrialStartDate | 2016-01-28 ⓘ |
| ideology | social democracy ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | French ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Ivorian Popular Front NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Ivorian Popular Front NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Laurent Gbagbo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contested 2010 presidential election
ⓘ
role in Ivorian political crises ⓘ |
| occupation |
historian
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| opponent | Alassane Ouattara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
First Ivorian Civil War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Second Ivorian Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Gagnoa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | President of Côte d'Ivoire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| returnDate | 2021-06-17 ⓘ |
| returnedTo | Côte d'Ivoire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Nadiani Bamba
NERFINISHED
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Simone Gbagbo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 2000-10-26 ⓘ |
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: Laurent Gbagbo Description of subject: Laurent Gbagbo is an Ivorian politician and former president of Côte d'Ivoire whose contested rule and refusal to cede power after elections played a central role in the country’s political crises and civil conflict.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Robert Guéï