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  "en": "Ballaké Sissoko — English Wikipedia"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "مقالة ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية عن بالاكي سيسوكو؛ تُستخدم لوقائع الكيان فقط. تذكر في صدرها أنه وُلد سنة 1968، وتخالف بذلك المقالة الفرنسية وويكيداتا (1967). لا تذكر دينه.",
  "en": "English Wikipedia article on Ballaké Sissoko; used for entity facts only. Its lead gives his birth year as 1968, against the French article and Wikidata (1967). It states no religion."
 },
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  "title": "Ballaké Sissoko",
  "author": [
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    "family": "Wikipedia contributors",
    "given": ""
   }
  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     2026,
     8,
     10
    ]
   ]
  },
  "publisher": "Wikipedia (English), revision 1368686694 of 10 August 2026",
  "URL": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballak%C3%A9_Sissoko",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Pointer for entity facts only (Wikipedia rule, AGENTS.md): a fact is used only where the article cites a source for it. Read in full on 25 October 2026, and its lead and biography checked against the recorded revision. It gives Ballaké Sissoko, born 1968 (lead; the French article and Wikidata give 1967 — the conflict is carried in the person record); his father Djelimady Sissoko, a notable musician from the Gambia who moved to Mali and was funded by the government to be part of the national orchestra; Ballaké taking his father's place in the Ensemble Instrumental National du Mali after his father's death in 1981, when he was 13; fame through his 1999 duet with Toumani Diabaté; the trio Mande Tabolo (2000); Tomora (2005); Chamber Music (2009) with the cellist Vincent Ségal; the solo album At Peace (2013); the February 2020 affair of his custom-made kora, dismantled on his return from a US tour, which this article attributes to U.S. Customs and Border Protection while reporting that agency's denial that it opened the case; the 2021 album Djourou, named from those events; the 2023 premiere of Zad Moultaka's Concerto for Kora at Radio France in Paris; and the duo with Derek Gripper since 2022, with their joint album of 2024. The article states no religion for him.",
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  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)"
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 "updated": "2026-10-25",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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