Foday Sankoh
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Foday Sankoh was the founder and leader of Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front (RUF), a rebel group notorious for its brutality and use of child soldiers during the country's civil war.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Foday Sankoh canonical | 9 |
| Foday Saybana Sankoh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6276816 — 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: Foday Sankoh Context triple: [Sierra Leone Civil War, notableCommander, Foday Sankoh]
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A.
Larry Blyden
Larry Blyden was an American actor, producer, and television game show host known for his work on Broadway and in early television.
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B.
Siaka Stevens
Siaka Stevens was a Sierra Leonean politician who led the country for many years, overseeing its transition to a republic and establishing a one-party state marked by authoritarian rule and corruption.
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C.
Hassan Bubacar Jallow
Hassan Bubacar Jallow is a Gambian jurist and former Attorney General who served as the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, playing a key role in prosecuting crimes committed during the 1994 genocide.
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D.
Alhaji Kromah
Alhaji Kromah was a prominent Liberian warlord and political figure who led the ULIMO-K faction during the First Liberian Civil War.
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E.
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.
- 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: Foday Sankoh Target entity description: Foday Sankoh was the founder and leader of Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front (RUF), a rebel group notorious for its brutality and use of child soldiers during the country's civil war.
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A.
Larry Blyden
Larry Blyden was an American actor, producer, and television game show host known for his work on Broadway and in early television.
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B.
Siaka Stevens
Siaka Stevens was a Sierra Leonean politician who led the country for many years, overseeing its transition to a republic and establishing a one-party state marked by authoritarian rule and corruption.
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C.
Hassan Bubacar Jallow
Hassan Bubacar Jallow is a Gambian jurist and former Attorney General who served as the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, playing a key role in prosecuting crimes committed during the 1994 genocide.
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D.
Alhaji Kromah
Alhaji Kromah was a prominent Liberian warlord and political figure who led the ULIMO-K faction during the First Liberian Civil War.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
founder
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human ⓘ rebel leader ⓘ warlord ⓘ |
| ally | Charles Taylor ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
National Patriotic Front of Liberia
ⓘ
amputations and mutilations during the Sierra Leone Civil War ⓘ blood diamonds ⓘ child soldiers ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| charge |
crimes against humanity
ⓘ
war crimes ⓘ |
| chargedBy | Special Court for Sierra Leone ⓘ |
| conflict | Sierra Leone Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Sierra Leone ⓘ |
| dateOfArrest | 2000-05-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1937-10-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2003-07-29 ⓘ |
| detainedBy | Government of Sierra Leone ⓘ |
| education | military training in Libya ⓘ |
| employer | Sierra Leone Army ⓘ |
| endTime | 2000-05 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Temne people ⓘ |
| familyName | Sankoh ⓘ |
| founderOf | Revolutionary United Front ⓘ |
| fullName |
Foday Saybana Sankoh
ⓘ
linked to:
Foday Sankoh
|
| givenName | Foday ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Krio ⓘ Temne ⓘ |
| leaderOf | Revolutionary United Front ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| militaryRank | corporal ⓘ |
| movement | Revolutionary United Front ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding the Revolutionary United Front
ⓘ
involvement in conflict diamonds trade ⓘ use of child soldiers in the Sierra Leone Civil War ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of the RUF insurgency ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
ⓘ
rebel leader ⓘ |
| participantIn | Sierra Leone Civil War ⓘ |
| placeOfArrest |
Freetown, Sierra Leone
ⓘ
linked to:
Freetown
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| placeOfBirth | Masang Mayoso, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Freetown, Sierra Leone
ⓘ
linked to:
Freetown
|
| positionHeld |
Chairman of the Commission for the Management of Strategic Resources, National Reconstruction and Development
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Vice President of Sierra Leone ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| signatoryTo |
Lomé Peace Accord
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linked to:
Lomé Peace Agreement
|
| startTime | 1999-07-07 ⓘ |
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: Foday Sankoh Description of subject: Foday Sankoh was the founder and leader of Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front (RUF), a rebel group notorious for its brutality and use of child soldiers during the country's civil war.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.