Abduwali Muse (real-life Somali pirate)
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Abduwali Muse is a Somali pirate best known for leading the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama and being subsequently captured and prosecuted in the United States.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Abduwali Muse (real-life Somali pirate) canonical | 1 |
| Abduwali Muse sentenced to over 30 years in prison | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10011129 — 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)
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Target entity: Abduwali Muse (real-life Somali pirate) Context triple: [Abduwali Muse, basedOn, Abduwali Muse (real-life Somali pirate)]
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A.
Abdul Salaam
Abdul Salaam is a former American football defensive tackle best known as a member of the New York Jets' famed "New York Sack Exchange" defensive line in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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B.
Omar Abdel-Rahman
Omar Abdel-Rahman, also known as the "Blind Sheikh," was an Egyptian Islamist cleric and spiritual leader of extremist groups who was convicted in the United States for his role in plots to wage terror attacks, including those related to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
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C.
Abdullah al-Janabi
Abdullah al-Janabi is a radical Iraqi Sunni cleric and insurgent leader known for his prominent role in organizing resistance against U.S.-led forces in Fallujah during the Iraq War.
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D.
Ali Abdul
Ali Abdul is a beloved supporting character in the Netflix series "Squid Game," portrayed as a kind-hearted Pakistani migrant worker who participates in the deadly competition.
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E.
Abu Rafi
Abu Rafi was a companion of the Prophet Muhammad known in Islamic tradition as a transmitter of hadiths.
- 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: Abduwali Muse (real-life Somali pirate) Target entity description: Abduwali Muse is a Somali pirate best known for leading the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama and being subsequently captured and prosecuted in the United States.
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A.
Abdul Salaam
Abdul Salaam is a former American football defensive tackle best known as a member of the New York Jets' famed "New York Sack Exchange" defensive line in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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B.
Omar Abdel-Rahman
Omar Abdel-Rahman, also known as the "Blind Sheikh," was an Egyptian Islamist cleric and spiritual leader of extremist groups who was convicted in the United States for his role in plots to wage terror attacks, including those related to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
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C.
Abdullah al-Janabi
Abdullah al-Janabi is a radical Iraqi Sunni cleric and insurgent leader known for his prominent role in organizing resistance against U.S.-led forces in Fallujah during the Iraq War.
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D.
Ali Abdul
Ali Abdul is a beloved supporting character in the Netflix series "Squid Game," portrayed as a kind-hearted Pakistani migrant worker who participates in the deadly competition.
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E.
Abu Rafi
Abu Rafi was a companion of the Prophet Muhammad known in Islamic tradition as a transmitter of hadiths.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Somali pirate
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| activePeriod | early 21st century ⓘ |
| capturedBy | United States Navy ⓘ |
| capturedDuring | rescue of Captain Richard Phillips ⓘ |
| conviction |
conspiracy to commit hostage taking
ⓘ
conspiracy to seize a ship by force ⓘ hostage taking ⓘ piracy under U.S. law ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Somalia ⓘ |
| countryOfConviction | United States of America ⓘ |
| criminalCharge |
conspiracy
ⓘ
hijacking ⓘ hostage taking ⓘ kidnapping ⓘ piracy ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | 2009 ⓘ |
| detainedIn | United States federal prison system ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Somali ⓘ |
| eventParticipatedIn | 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Somali
ⓘ
some English ⓘ |
| legalStatus | convicted criminal ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage | international news ⓘ |
| name | Abduwali Muse ⓘ |
| notableFor | hijacking of the Maersk Alabama ⓘ |
| notableIncidentDate | April 2009 ⓘ |
| notableWork | real-life basis for the film Captain Phillips ⓘ |
| occupation | pirate ⓘ |
| partOf |
Somali piracy in the Gulf of Aden
ⓘ
linked to:
Gulf of Aden shipping attacks
|
| placeOfEvent |
Indian Ocean
ⓘ
off the coast of Somalia ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Barkhad Abdi ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | film Captain Phillips ⓘ |
| prosecutedBy |
United States federal authorities
ⓘ
linked to:
United States federal law enforcement
|
| sentence | over 30 years in U.S. federal prison ⓘ |
| shipHijacked | Maersk Alabama ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
legal analyses of modern piracy cases
ⓘ
news articles about Somali piracy ⓘ |
| triedIn | United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ⓘ |
| victim |
Captain Richard Phillips
ⓘ
Maersk Alabama crew ⓘ |
| victimShipFlag |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| victimShipOperator |
Maersk Line Limited
ⓘ
linked to:
A.P. Møller – Mærsk
|
| victimShipType | container ship ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Abduwali Muse (real-life Somali pirate) Description of subject: Abduwali Muse is a Somali pirate best known for leading the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama and being subsequently captured and prosecuted in the United States.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Abduwali Muse (real-life Somali pirate)