FIFA Referees Committee
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The FIFA Referees Committee is a governing body within FIFA responsible for overseeing and developing match officiating standards, including the selection and evaluation of international referees.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FIFA Referees Committee canonical | 6 |
| FIFA Refereeing Department | 2 |
| FIFA match officials | 1 |
| FIFA refereeing department | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1142599 — 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: FIFA Referees Committee Context triple: [Fair Play Award, hasAwardingBody, FIFA Referees Committee]
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A.
Fédération Internationale de Football Association
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is the global governing body responsible for organizing and regulating international football (soccer), including major tournaments such as the FIFA World Cup.
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B.
International Football Association Board
The International Football Association Board is the global body responsible for determining and overseeing the Laws of the Game in association football.
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C.
FIFA vice president
The FIFA vice president is a senior executive role within world football’s governing body, responsible for helping oversee global football administration, policy, and strategic decision-making.
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D.
IOC President
The IOC President is the head of the International Olympic Committee, responsible for leading the Olympic Movement and overseeing the organization of the Olympic Games.
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E.
Fédération Française de Football
The Fédération Française de Football is the governing body of football in France, responsible for organizing national competitions and overseeing the French national teams.
- 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: FIFA Referees Committee Target entity description: The FIFA Referees Committee is a governing body within FIFA responsible for overseeing and developing match officiating standards, including the selection and evaluation of international referees.
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A.
Fédération Internationale de Football Association
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is the global governing body responsible for organizing and regulating international football (soccer), including major tournaments such as the FIFA World Cup.
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B.
International Football Association Board
The International Football Association Board is the global body responsible for determining and overseeing the Laws of the Game in association football.
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C.
FIFA vice president
The FIFA vice president is a senior executive role within world football’s governing body, responsible for helping oversee global football administration, policy, and strategic decision-making.
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D.
IOC President
The IOC President is the head of the International Olympic Committee, responsible for leading the Olympic Movement and overseeing the organization of the Olympic Games.
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E.
Fédération Française de Football
The Fédération Française de Football is the governing body of football in France, responsible for organizing national competitions and overseeing the French national teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
FIFA committee
ⓘ
football refereeing body ⓘ sports governing body committee ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
FIFA competitions
ⓘ
FIFA member associations ⓘ
linked to:
FIFA Member Associations
international football ⓘ |
| composedOf |
chairman
ⓘ
deputy chairmen ⓘ members from FIFA confederations ⓘ |
| countryOfHeadquarters | Switzerland ⓘ |
| field |
association football
ⓘ
football refereeing ⓘ sports officiating ⓘ |
| follows |
FIFA Statutes
ⓘ
Laws of the Game ⓘ
linked to:
Laws of the Game of association football
|
| goal |
improvement of refereeing quality worldwide
ⓘ
uniform application of the Laws of the Game in FIFA competitions ⓘ |
| governingBodyOf |
FIFA match officials
ⓘ
linked to:
The Other Match Officials
|
| hasResponsibility |
appointment of referees for FIFA tournaments
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assessment of referee performance ⓘ development of refereeing guidelines ⓘ disciplinary recommendations related to refereeing performance ⓘ ensuring consistency of refereeing across confederations ⓘ evaluation of international referees ⓘ implementation of Laws of the Game in FIFA competitions ⓘ maintaining international referees lists ⓘ overseeing assistant referees and video match officials in FIFA competitions ⓘ overseeing match officiating standards in FIFA competitions ⓘ proposing refereeing policies to the FIFA Council ⓘ referee education and training programs ⓘ selection of international referees ⓘ setting fitness and performance criteria for referees ⓘ supporting implementation of VAR in FIFA competitions ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
FIFA headquarters
ⓘ
Zurich ⓘ |
| oversees |
FIFA international referee lists
ⓘ
referees at FIFA Women’s World Cup ⓘ referees at FIFA club competitions ⓘ referees at FIFA youth tournaments ⓘ referees at the FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | FIFA ⓘ |
| partOf | FIFA ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | FIFA Council ⓘ |
| usesLanguage |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
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: FIFA Referees Committee Description of subject: The FIFA Referees Committee is a governing body within FIFA responsible for overseeing and developing match officiating standards, including the selection and evaluation of international referees.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: FIFA Referees Committee
linked to: FIFA Referees Committee
linked to: FIFA Referees Committee
linked to: FIFA Referees Committee