Kashim Shettima
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Kashim Shettima is a Nigerian politician and former governor of Borno State who currently serves as the Vice President of Nigeria.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kashim Shettima canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10777374 — 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: Kashim Shettima Context triple: [Vice President of Nigeria, currentOfficeHolder, Kashim Shettima]
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A.
Attahiru Jega
Attahiru Jega is a Nigerian academic and former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), known for overseeing key electoral reforms and the 2011 and 2015 general elections.
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B.
Yakubu Dogara
Yakubu Dogara is a Nigerian politician and lawyer who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019.
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C.
Shehu Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi
Shehu Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi was a prominent 19th-century Islamic scholar, statesman, and leader who founded the Kanemi dynasty that succeeded the Bornu Empire in what is now northeastern Nigeria.
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D.
Lai Mohammed
Lai Mohammed is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who served as the national publicity secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria and later as Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture.
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E.
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.
- 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: Kashim Shettima Target entity description: Kashim Shettima is a Nigerian politician and former governor of Borno State who currently serves as the Vice President of Nigeria.
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A.
Attahiru Jega
Attahiru Jega is a Nigerian academic and former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), known for overseeing key electoral reforms and the 2011 and 2015 general elections.
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B.
Yakubu Dogara
Yakubu Dogara is a Nigerian politician and lawyer who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019.
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C.
Shehu Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi
Shehu Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi was a prominent 19th-century Islamic scholar, statesman, and leader who founded the Kanemi dynasty that succeeded the Bornu Empire in what is now northeastern Nigeria.
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D.
Lai Mohammed
Lai Mohammed is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who served as the national publicity secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria and later as Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| branchOfGovernment | Executive branch of the Federal Government of Nigeria ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | Africa ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Nigeria ⓘ |
| election | 2023 Nigerian presidential election ⓘ |
| familyName | Shettima NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Kashim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentLevel | federal ⓘ |
| governorTermEnd | 2019 ⓘ |
| governorTermStart | 2011 ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Governor
ⓘ
Senator ⓘ Vice President ⓘ |
| hasTitle | His Excellency ⓘ |
| isFromState | Borno State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Hausa NERFINISHED ⓘ Kanuri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legislativeBodyServedIn | Senate of Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | All Progressives Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Kashim Shettima NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Nigerian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
serving as Governor of Borno State during the Boko Haram insurgency
ⓘ
serving as Vice President of Nigeria ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| office | Vice President of Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officeAssumed | Vice President of Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officeAssumedDate | 2023-05-29 ⓘ |
| partOf | Federal Government of Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalParty | All Progressives Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Borno State
ⓘ
Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria ⓘ Vice President of Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededByInOffice | Yemi Osinbajo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionGoverned | North East Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Northern Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Abuja
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maiduguri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runningMateOf | Bola Ahmed Tinubu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedAsGovernorOf | Borno State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateGoverned | Borno State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateRepresentedAsGovernor | Borno State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksIn | Aso Rock Presidential Villa 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: Kashim Shettima Description of subject: Kashim Shettima is a Nigerian politician and former governor of Borno State who currently serves as the Vice President of Nigeria.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.