Bernard Obama
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Bernard Obama is a Kenyan man known primarily as a member of Barack Obama’s extended family and the brother of Auma Obama.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bernard Obama canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10591422 — 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: Bernard Obama Context triple: [Auma Obama, relative, Bernard Obama]
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A.
Auma Obama
Auma Obama is a Kenyan-British community activist, author, and sociologist known for her work in sustainable development and as the half-sister of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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B.
Roy Obama
Roy Obama is a Kenyan-born half-brother of former U.S. President Barack Obama, known primarily as a member of the Obama family.
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C.
Habiba Akumu Obama
Habiba Akumu Obama was a Kenyan woman best known as the first wife of Hussein Onyango Obama and the paternal grandmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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D.
Barack Obama Sr.
Barack Obama Sr. was a Kenyan economist and government official best known as the father of U.S. President Barack Obama.
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E.
Malik Obama
Malik Obama is a Kenyan-American businessman and politician best known as the older half-brother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
- 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: Bernard Obama Target entity description: Bernard Obama is a Kenyan man known primarily as a member of Barack Obama’s extended family and the brother of Auma Obama.
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A.
Auma Obama
Auma Obama is a Kenyan-British community activist, author, and sociologist known for her work in sustainable development and as the half-sister of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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B.
Roy Obama
Roy Obama is a Kenyan-born half-brother of former U.S. President Barack Obama, known primarily as a member of the Obama family.
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C.
Habiba Akumu Obama
Habiba Akumu Obama was a Kenyan woman best known as the first wife of Hussein Onyango Obama and the paternal grandmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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D.
Barack Obama Sr.
Barack Obama Sr. was a Kenyan economist and government official best known as the father of U.S. President Barack Obama.
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E.
Malik Obama
Malik Obama is a Kenyan-American businessman and politician best known as the older half-brother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kenya ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Luo people ⓘ |
| familyName |
Obama
ⓘ
linked to:
Barack Obama
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Bernard ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a member of Barack Obama’s extended family
ⓘ
being the brother of Auma Obama ⓘ |
| relative | Barack Obama ⓘ |
| sibling | Auma Obama ⓘ |
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: Bernard Obama Description of subject: Bernard Obama is a Kenyan man known primarily as a member of Barack Obama’s extended family and the brother of Auma Obama.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.