{
 "id": "place/mali",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "mali",
 "label": {
  "ar": "مالي",
  "en": "Mali",
  "ur": "مالی"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "دولة في الساحل الغربي على أرض إمبراطورية مالي القديمة.",
  "en": "Sahel state on the land of the old Mali empire."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "west-africa-sahel"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  17,
  -4
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "region",
  "coordinates": [
   17,
   -4
  ],
  "coordinate_precision": "approx",
  "coordinate_note": "Identified location / approximate regional centre; flagged for gazetteer verification.",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q912",
   "geonames": "2453866"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata",
   "source/geonames-gazetteer"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "generated_by": "Devin",
   "run": "person-place-geo-merge",
   "merged_from": [
    "person-place-geo-a",
    "person-place-geo-b",
    "person-place-geo-c"
   ],
   "note": "Semantic merge of duplicate records written by parallel enrichment runs.",
   "source": "Wikidata item Q912 (labels, coordinates, country), read via the Wikidata API in the person-place geo-enrichment run.; Wikidata item Q912 (labels, coordinates, description)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 20,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/abu-ishaq-al-sahili",
   "type": "visited_by",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Went back with Mansa Musa to Mali; EI2 vol. 6 p. 278.",
   "sources": [
    "source/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/adama-traore",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "From text: Malian (nationality adjective); broad association, flagged for review.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-adama-traore-en",
    "source/wikipedia-adama-traore-ar",
    "source/wikidata-adama-traore"
   ],
   "confidence": "low"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/cheikh-hamallah",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Place link from Wikidata; pending a second source.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata-cheikh-hamallah"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/frederic-kanoute",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Associated with مالي per the record's own summary text; relation type pending review.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-frederic-kanoute-en"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/mamadou-lamine-drame",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Place link mined from the record's own note text; pending verification.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-mahmadu-lamine-en",
    "source/wikipedia-mamadou-lamine-drame-fr"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/mansa-musa",
   "type": "under_rule_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "King of Mali per the record's summary.",
   "sources": [
    "source/tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/mansa-sulayman",
   "type": "under_rule_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "King of Mali per the record's summary.",
   "sources": [
    "source/tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/mari-jata",
   "type": "under_rule_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Founder and king of the Mali empire per the record's summary.",
   "sources": [
    "source/tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/salif-keita",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata-salif-keita"
   ],
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Wikidata P19 place of birth (Wikidata Q912)"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/salih-bilali",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/ldhi-salih-bilali",
    "source/claiming-freedom-salih-bilali",
    "source/message-international-first-muslims"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/mansa-musa",
  "polity/mali-empire",
  "place/mecca",
  "person/abu-ishaq-al-sahili",
  "person/mansa-sulayman",
  "person/mari-jata",
  "event/djinguereber-built-1327",
  "event/mansa-musa-accession-1312"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}