Ben Okri
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Ben Okri is a Nigerian poet and novelist renowned for his visionary, magic-realist works such as the Booker Prize–winning novel "The Famished Road."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ben Okri canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5797278 — 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: Ben Okri Context triple: [Chinua Achebe, influenced, Ben Okri]
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A.
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet, and essayist who became the first African laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, renowned for his powerful critiques of political oppression and exploration of Yoruba culture.
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B.
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe was a pioneering Nigerian novelist, best known for his influential work "Things Fall Apart" and for shaping modern African literature.
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C.
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer and environmental activist best known for leading nonviolent campaigns against oil industry pollution and government neglect in the Niger Delta.
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D.
Elechi Amadi
Elechi Amadi was a Nigerian author and soldier best known for his classic novel "The Concubine" and his contributions to African literature.
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E.
Flora Nwapa
Flora Nwapa was a pioneering Nigerian novelist and publisher widely regarded as the mother of modern African women’s writing.
- 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: Ben Okri Target entity description: Ben Okri is a Nigerian poet and novelist renowned for his visionary, magic-realist works such as the Booker Prize–winning novel "The Famished Road."
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A.
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet, and essayist who became the first African laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, renowned for his powerful critiques of political oppression and exploration of Yoruba culture.
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B.
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe was a pioneering Nigerian novelist, best known for his influential work "Things Fall Apart" and for shaping modern African literature.
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C.
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer and environmental activist best known for leading nonviolent campaigns against oil industry pollution and government neglect in the Niger Delta.
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D.
Elechi Amadi
Elechi Amadi was a Nigerian author and soldier best known for his classic novel "The Concubine" and his contributions to African literature.
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E.
Flora Nwapa
Flora Nwapa was a pioneering Nigerian novelist and publisher widely regarded as the mother of modern African women’s writing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
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human ⓘ magic realist writer ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| author | Ben Okri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Aga Khan Prize for Fiction
NERFINISHED
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Booker Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Commonwealth Writers Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Crystal Award of the World Economic Forum NERFINISHED ⓘ Order of the British Empire ⓘ |
| birthName | Ben Okri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Nigeria
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-03-15 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Essex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Urhobo people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Okri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
magic realism
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postcolonial literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Ben NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
African oral tradition
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Nigerian politics ⓘ spirituality ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
African literature
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postmodern literature ⓘ |
| name | Ben Okri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality |
British
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Nigerian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
magic-realist writing
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visionary fiction ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Way of Being Free
NERFINISHED
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An African Elegy NERFINISHED ⓘ Astonishing the Gods NERFINISHED ⓘ Infinite Riches NERFINISHED ⓘ Songs of Enchantment NERFINISHED ⓘ The Age of Magic NERFINISHED ⓘ The Famished Road NERFINISHED ⓘ The Famished Road trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ The Freedom Artist NERFINISHED ⓘ The Landscapes Within NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
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novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Minna, Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| workPeriod |
21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
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: Ben Okri Description of subject: Ben Okri is a Nigerian poet and novelist renowned for his visionary, magic-realist works such as the Booker Prize–winning novel "The Famished Road."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.