VAR
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VAR (Video Assistant Referee) is a football officiating system that uses video technology to help referees review and correct clear and obvious errors in key match situations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| VAR canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1157976 — 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: VAR Context triple: [UEFA Euro 2020 (matches), usesTechnology, VAR]
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A.
Var
Var is a department in southeastern France known for its Mediterranean coastline, including popular resort areas along the French Riviera.
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B.
VIR
VIR is the ICAO airline designator used to identify Virgin Atlantic in international aviation operations.
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C.
Varig
Varig was Brazil’s former flagship airline, once the country’s largest carrier and a major international operator throughout much of the 20th century.
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D.
VRA
VRA is the common abbreviation for the landmark U.S. federal law enacted in 1965 to prohibit racial discrimination in voting.
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E.
VELO
VELO is the high-precision vertex detector of the LHCb experiment at CERN, designed to measure particle trajectories very close to the proton–proton collision point.
- 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: VAR Target entity description: VAR (Video Assistant Referee) is a football officiating system that uses video technology to help referees review and correct clear and obvious errors in key match situations.
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A.
Var
Var is a department in southeastern France known for its Mediterranean coastline, including popular resort areas along the French Riviera.
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B.
VIR
VIR is the ICAO airline designator used to identify Virgin Atlantic in international aviation operations.
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C.
Varig
Varig was Brazil’s former flagship airline, once the country’s largest carrier and a major international operator throughout much of the 20th century.
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D.
VRA
VRA is the common abbreviation for the landmark U.S. federal law enacted in 1965 to prohibit racial discrimination in voting.
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E.
VELO
VELO is the high-precision vertex detector of the LHCb experiment at CERN, designed to measure particle trajectories very close to the proton–proton collision point.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
football officiating technology
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video assistant referee system ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
increase fairness of match outcomes
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reduce refereeing errors ⓘ |
| approvedBy |
FIFA
ⓘ
International Football Association Board ⓘ |
| communicationMethod | radio headset ⓘ |
| criticizedFor |
delays in play
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impact on goal celebrations ⓘ subjective interpretation of incidents ⓘ |
| decisionAuthority | on-field referee has final decision ⓘ |
| domain | sports officiating technology ⓘ |
| errorThreshold | clear and obvious error standard ⓘ |
| firstMajorTournamentUse |
2017 FIFA Confederations Cup
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linked to:
FIFA Confederations Cup 2017
|
| fullName | Video Assistant Referee ⓘ |
| governedBy | IFAB VAR protocol ⓘ |
| introducedAtLevel | top-level professional football ⓘ |
| introducedYear | mid-2010s ⓘ |
| locationOfOfficials | video operation room ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose |
assist on-field referees in decision-making
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correct clear and obvious errors ⓘ |
| protocolPrinciple | minimum interference maximum benefit ⓘ |
| regulatedBy |
Laws of the Game
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linked to:
Laws of the Game of association football
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| requires |
broadcast-quality video feeds
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multiple camera angles ⓘ |
| reviewScope |
direct red card incidents
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goals ⓘ mistaken identity in disciplinary sanctions ⓘ penalty decisions ⓘ |
| reviewType |
on-field review
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silent check ⓘ |
| staffedBy |
assistant video assistant referee
ⓘ
replay operator ⓘ video assistant referee ⓘ |
| triggeredBy |
VAR-initiated recommendation
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on-field referee request ⓘ |
| usedAtTournament |
2018 FIFA World Cup
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FIFA Club World Cup ⓘ UEFA Champions League ⓘ UEFA European Championship ⓘ |
| usedInCompetition |
Bundesliga
ⓘ
English Premier League ⓘ
linked to:
Premier League
La Liga ⓘ Ligue 1 ⓘ Serie A ⓘ |
| usedInSport | association football ⓘ |
| usesTechnology |
communication systems
ⓘ
video replays ⓘ |
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: VAR Description of subject: VAR (Video Assistant Referee) is a football officiating system that uses video technology to help referees review and correct clear and obvious errors in key match situations.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.