Ballaké Sissoko
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Ballaké Sissoko is a renowned Malian musician celebrated as one of the world’s leading kora virtuosos and a prominent figure in contemporary West African traditional music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ballaké Sissoko canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8499018 — 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: Ballaké Sissoko Context triple: [kora, playedBy, Ballaké Sissoko]
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A.
Ibrahim Maalouf
Ibrahim Maalouf is a French-Lebanese trumpeter and composer renowned for blending jazz with Arabic musical traditions and quarter-tone techniques.
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B.
Youssou N’Dour
Youssou N’Dour is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, and bandleader renowned for popularizing mbalax music worldwide and for his influential role in global pop and world music.
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C.
Kayhan Kalhor
Kayhan Kalhor is an acclaimed Iranian kamancheh virtuoso and composer known for his innovative contributions to Persian classical music and cross-cultural collaborations.
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D.
Salif Keita
Salif Keita is a renowned Malian singer-songwriter often called the "Golden Voice of Africa," celebrated for blending traditional West African music with global influences.
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E.
Ali Farka Touré
Ali Farka Touré was a renowned Malian guitarist and singer celebrated for blending traditional West African music with American blues, becoming one of Africa’s most influential musicians.
- 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: Ballaké Sissoko Target entity description: Ballaké Sissoko is a renowned Malian musician celebrated as one of the world’s leading kora virtuosos and a prominent figure in contemporary West African traditional music.
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A.
Ibrahim Maalouf
Ibrahim Maalouf is a French-Lebanese trumpeter and composer renowned for blending jazz with Arabic musical traditions and quarter-tone techniques.
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B.
Youssou N’Dour
Youssou N’Dour is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, and bandleader renowned for popularizing mbalax music worldwide and for his influential role in global pop and world music.
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C.
Kayhan Kalhor
Kayhan Kalhor is an acclaimed Iranian kamancheh virtuoso and composer known for his innovative contributions to Persian classical music and cross-cultural collaborations.
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D.
Salif Keita
Salif Keita is a renowned Malian singer-songwriter often called the "Golden Voice of Africa," celebrated for blending traditional West African music with global influences.
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E.
Ali Farka Touré
Ali Farka Touré was a renowned Malian guitarist and singer celebrated for blending traditional West African music with American blues, becoming one of Africa’s most influential musicians.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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human ⓘ kora player ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| basedIn | Bamako NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Ludovico Einaudi
NERFINISHED
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Rokia Traoré NERFINISHED ⓘ Taj Mahal NERFINISHED ⓘ Toumani Diabaté NERFINISHED ⓘ Vincent Ségal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Mali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Mandé people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Sissoko NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Djelimady Sissoko NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Mande music
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West African traditional music ⓘ world music ⓘ |
| givenName | Ballaké NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
accompanist
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band leader ⓘ solo artist ⓘ |
| instrument | kora ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance |
Bambara
ⓘ
Mandinka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | griot tradition ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary West African traditional music ⓘ |
| name | Ballaké Sissoko NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to contemporary Malian music
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innovative kora duos with cello ⓘ kora virtuosity ⓘ |
| notableWork |
At Peace
NERFINISHED
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Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal NERFINISHED ⓘ Chamber Music NERFINISHED ⓘ Deli NERFINISHED ⓘ Musique de Nuit NERFINISHED ⓘ Tomora NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
kora player
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Mali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Label Bleu
NERFINISHED
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No Format! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| touringRegion |
Africa
NERFINISHED
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Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Ballaké Sissoko Description of subject: Ballaké Sissoko is a renowned Malian musician celebrated as one of the world’s leading kora virtuosos and a prominent figure in contemporary West African traditional music.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.