Sylvestre Mudacumura
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Sylvestre Mudacumura was a Rwandan military commander and rebel leader, best known as the top military figure of the FDLR, a Hutu armed group active in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sylvestre Mudacumura canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11349230 — 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: Sylvestre Mudacumura Context triple: [Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda, hasLeader, Sylvestre Mudacumura]
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A.
Ignace Murwanashyaka
Ignace Murwanashyaka was a Rwandan rebel leader and politician best known for heading the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a Hutu militia active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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B.
Constantino Chiwenga
Constantino Chiwenga is a Zimbabwean military commander-turned-politician who played a central role in the 2017 coup that led to Robert Mugabe’s ouster and later became the country’s vice president.
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C.
Martin Kabanza
Martin Kabanza is an actor best known for his role in the biographical drama film "Queen of Katwe."
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D.
Paulo Muwanga
Paulo Muwanga was a prominent Ugandan politician and military figure who played a key role in the country’s turbulent transitions of power around the 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Theophile Obenga
Theophile Obenga is a Congolese Egyptologist, linguist, and historian known for his Afrocentric scholarship on the African origins of ancient Egyptian civilization and African cultural unity.
- 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: Sylvestre Mudacumura Target entity description: Sylvestre Mudacumura was a Rwandan military commander and rebel leader, best known as the top military figure of the FDLR, a Hutu armed group active in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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A.
Ignace Murwanashyaka
Ignace Murwanashyaka was a Rwandan rebel leader and politician best known for heading the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a Hutu militia active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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B.
Constantino Chiwenga
Constantino Chiwenga is a Zimbabwean military commander-turned-politician who played a central role in the 2017 coup that led to Robert Mugabe’s ouster and later became the country’s vice president.
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C.
Martin Kabanza
Martin Kabanza is an actor best known for his role in the biographical drama film "Queen of Katwe."
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D.
Paulo Muwanga
Paulo Muwanga was a prominent Ugandan politician and military figure who played a key role in the country’s turbulent transitions of power around the 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Theophile Obenga
Theophile Obenga is a Congolese Egyptologist, linguist, and historian known for his Afrocentric scholarship on the African origins of ancient Egyptian civilization and African cultural unity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Rwandan person
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military commander ⓘ person ⓘ rebel leader ⓘ |
| allegedRole | involvement in atrocities against civilians in eastern DRC ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Rwandan Hutu militias
NERFINISHED
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Rwandan genocide aftermath ⓘ |
| charge |
crimes against humanity
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war crimes ⓘ |
| commanded |
FDLR armed wing
NERFINISHED
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FDLR-FOCA units in Kivu ⓘ |
| conflict |
Kivu conflict
NERFINISHED
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Rwandan Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ Second Congo War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Rwanda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathCause | killed in military operation ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Democratic Republic of the Congo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Hutu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Mudacumura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Sylvestre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology | Hutu Power ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
French
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Kinyarwanda ⓘ |
| legalStatus | ICC fugitive ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda
NERFINISHED
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FDLR NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Rwandan Armed Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Sylvestre Mudacumura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership of Hutu rebel forces in eastern DRC
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long-term insurgency against Rwandan government from DRC territory ⓘ top military figure of the FDLR ⓘ |
| operatingArea |
North Kivu
NERFINISHED
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South Kivu NERFINISHED ⓘ eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
military commander of the FDLR
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overall commander of FDLR-FOCA ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Great Lakes region of Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | deceased ⓘ |
| subjectOf | International Criminal Court arrest warrant ⓘ |
| wantedBy | International Criminal Court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Sylvestre Mudacumura Description of subject: Sylvestre Mudacumura was a Rwandan military commander and rebel leader, best known as the top military figure of the FDLR, a Hutu armed group active in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.