First Bank of Nigeria
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First Bank of Nigeria is one of Nigeria’s oldest and largest commercial banks, providing a wide range of financial services across the country and in select international markets.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| First Bank of Nigeria canonical | 4 |
| First Bank of Nigeria Limited | 1 |
| FirstBank Ghana | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10777841 — 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: First Bank of Nigeria Context triple: [Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, employer, First Bank of Nigeria]
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A.
Central Bank of Nigeria
The Central Bank of Nigeria is the country’s apex monetary authority responsible for issuing currency, regulating the banking sector, and formulating and implementing monetary policy in Nigeria.
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B.
Equator Bank
Equator Bank was a financial institution where future Liberian president and economist Ellen Johnson Sirleaf held a professional position during her banking career.
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C.
West African Development Bank
The West African Development Bank is a regional financial institution that funds development and economic integration projects among West African countries.
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D.
Nigeria Trust Fund
The Nigeria Trust Fund is a concessional financing facility established by Nigeria and managed by the African Development Bank to support development projects in low-income African countries.
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E.
Nedbank
Nedbank is one of South Africa’s major financial institutions, offering a wide range of banking and financial services to retail, business, and corporate clients.
- 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: First Bank of Nigeria Target entity description: First Bank of Nigeria is one of Nigeria’s oldest and largest commercial banks, providing a wide range of financial services across the country and in select international markets.
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A.
Central Bank of Nigeria
The Central Bank of Nigeria is the country’s apex monetary authority responsible for issuing currency, regulating the banking sector, and formulating and implementing monetary policy in Nigeria.
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B.
Equator Bank
Equator Bank was a financial institution where future Liberian president and economist Ellen Johnson Sirleaf held a professional position during her banking career.
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C.
West African Development Bank
The West African Development Bank is a regional financial institution that funds development and economic integration projects among West African countries.
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D.
Nigeria Trust Fund
The Nigeria Trust Fund is a concessional financing facility established by Nigeria and managed by the African Development Bank to support development projects in low-income African countries.
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E.
Nedbank
Nedbank is one of South Africa’s major financial institutions, offering a wide range of banking and financial services to retail, business, and corporate clients.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial bank
ⓘ
financial services company ⓘ |
| brandName | FirstBank ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| formerName |
Bank of British West Africa
ⓘ
First Bank of Nigeria Limited ⓘ
linked to:
First Bank of Nigeria
Standard Bank of West Africa ⓘ
linked to:
United Bank for Africa
|
| founder | Alfred Lewis Jones ⓘ |
| hasColor |
blue
ⓘ
gold ⓘ |
| hasOfficeIn |
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
ⓘ
linked to:
Abu Dhabi
Beijing, China ⓘ
linked to:
Beijing
London, United Kingdom ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
Paris, France ⓘ
linked to:
Paris
|
| hasSubsidiary |
FirstBank Gambia
ⓘ
FirstBank Ghana ⓘ
linked to:
First Bank of Nigeria
FirstBank Guinea ⓘ FirstBank Republic of Congo ⓘ FirstBank Sierra Leone ⓘ FirstBank UK Limited ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Lagos, Nigeria
ⓘ
linked to:
Lagos
|
| inception | 1894 ⓘ |
| industry |
banking
ⓘ
financial services ⓘ |
| legalForm | public limited company ⓘ |
| logoFeature | elephant symbol ⓘ |
| motto | You First ⓘ |
| notableAward | Best Bank Brand in Nigeria (The Banker magazine, multiple years) ⓘ |
| ownerOf | FirstBank Nigeria branch network ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | FBN Holdings Plc ⓘ |
| regulator | Central Bank of Nigeria ⓘ |
| serves |
individual customers
ⓘ
large corporates ⓘ public sector clients ⓘ small and medium enterprises ⓘ |
| services |
SME banking
ⓘ
agency banking ⓘ cards and electronic payments ⓘ commercial banking ⓘ corporate banking ⓘ current accounts ⓘ fixed deposits ⓘ internet banking ⓘ investment banking (via group affiliates) ⓘ loans and advances ⓘ mobile banking ⓘ retail banking ⓘ savings accounts ⓘ trade finance ⓘ treasury services ⓘ wealth management (via group affiliates) ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListedOn |
Nigerian Exchange Limited
ⓘ
linked to:
Nigerian Exchange Group
|
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: First Bank of Nigeria Description of subject: First Bank of Nigeria is one of Nigeria’s oldest and largest commercial banks, providing a wide range of financial services across the country and in select international markets.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: First Bank of Nigeria
linked to: First Bank of Nigeria