PREFIX fb: <http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/>
SELECT ?country WHERE {
  fb:m.047sxrj fb:people.person.nationality ?country
}
LIMIT 1

United States of America

[System]
You are a question answering assistant. Your job is to generate a SPARQL query to answer a given user question.

You have access to the following knowledge graphs:
freebase at https://qlever.cs.uni-freiburg.de/api/freebase

You can use the following SPARQL prefixes implicitly in all functions:
fb: <http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/
fbkey: <http://rdf.freebase.com/key/
rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#
owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#
xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#
foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#
dct: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/
dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#
schema: <http://schema.org/
geo: <http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#
geosparql: <http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#
gn: <http://www.geonames.org/ontology#
bd: <http://www.bigdata.com/rdf#
hint: <http://www.bigdata.com/queryHints#
wikibase: <http://wikiba.se/ontology#
qb: <http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#
void: <http://rdfs.org/ns/void#

You should follow a step-by-step approach to generate the SPARQL query:
1. Determine possible entities and properties implied by the user question.
2. Use the functions to search for entities and properties in the knowledge graphs. Where applicable, constrain the searches with already identified entities and properties.
3. Gradually build up the SPARQL query using the identified entities and properties. Start with simple queries and add more complexity as needed. Use the execute function to get feedback on intermediate queries. You can go back and forth between knowledge graph searches and SPARQL query executions to refine the query.
4. Use the answer or cancel function to finalize your answer and stop the generation process.

Additional rules:
1. Explain your thought process before and after each step and function call.
2. Do not assume or make up any entities or properties without verifying them with the knowledge graphs and functions.
3. The SPARQL query should always return the actual identifiers / IRIs of the items in its result. It additionally may return labels or other human-readable information, but they are optional and should be put within optional clauses unless explicitly requested by the user.
4. Do not stop early if there are still obvious improvements to be made to the SPARQL query. For example, keep refining your SPARQL query if its result contains irrelevant items or is missing items you expected.
5. Do not perform additional computation (e.g. filtering, sorting, calculations) on the result of the SPARQL query to determine the answer. All computation should be done solely within SPARQL.
6. For questions with a "True" or "False" answer the SPARQL query should be an ASK query.
7. Do not use 'SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language ...' in SPARQL queries. It is not SPARQL standard and unsupported by the used QLever SPARQL endpoints. Use rdfs:label or similar properties to get labels instead.

[User] what country is nicki minaj from?

[Assistant] To find out what country Nicki Minaj is from, I'll start by searching for the entity corresponding to Nicki Minaj in Freebase.

[Tool]
Top 10 entity alternatives:
1. Nicki Minaj, also known as Onika Tanya Maraj, Onika Tonya Maraj, Point Dexter, Princess of Pop, Queen of Hip-Hop (fb:m.047sxrj): Onika Tanya Maraj, better known by her stage name Nicki Minaj, i...and also had a supporting role in the 2014 film The Other Woman., Celebrity
2. Nicki Minaj (fb:m.0jb0j64): Cycle 17 features the first-ever All-Star cast, with fan favorit...e judges' panel for the first elimination of the All-Star cycle., TV Episode
3. Nicki Minaj (fb:m.0g0dbj6): TV Episode
4. Nicki Minaj (fb:m.0129t7c6): Musical Recording
5. Nicki Minaj (fb:m.0mthrxw): TV Episode
6. Nicki Minaj (fb:m.0wrrscc): TV Episode
7. Nicki Minaj (fb:m.012b5zby)
8. Nicki Minaj Speaks (fb:m.0np03yq): Musical Recording
9. Nicki Minaj cropped (fb:m.0dhcp0w)
10. Nicki Minaj Speaks (fb:m.0npczwq)

[Assistant] Based on the search results, the entity corresponding to Nicki Minaj is fb:m.047sxrj. Now I will search for properties related to her place of birth or nationality.

[Tool]
Top 10 property alternatives:
1. Place of birth (fb:people.person.place_of_birth): Location, Person
2. Country of nationality (fb:people.person.nationality): Country, Person
3. Date of birth (fb:people.person.date_of_birth): Date/Time, Person
4. Profession (fb:people.person.profession): Profession, Person
5. Places lived (fb:people.person.places_lived): Place lived, Person
6. Member of (fb:music.group_member.membership): Musical Group Membership, Musician
7. Ethnicity (fb:people.person.ethnicity): Ethnicity, Person
8. Place Musical Career Began (fb:music.artist.origin): Musical Artist, Location
9. Name (fb:type.object.name): Object, Text
10. Parents (fb:people.person.parents): Person

No other items found

[Assistant] From the search results, the most relevant property for finding out where Nicki Minaj is from is "Country of nationality" (fb:people.person.nationality). Now I will search for the value of this property for the entity fb:m.047sxrj.

[Tool]
Got 1 row and 3 columns:
| subject                    | property                                              | object                                 |
| -------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| Nicki Minaj (fb:m.047sxrj) | Country of nationality (fb:people.person.nationality) | United States of America (fb:m.09c7w0) |

[Assistant]
The SPARQL query has returned the result that Nicki Minaj's country of nationality is the United States of America. Therefore, the answer to the question "What country is Nicki Minaj from?" is the United States of America.

I will now generate the final SPARQL query to confirm this answer.

[Tool] Stopped generation process