Virat Kohli
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Virat Kohli is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the modern era’s greatest batsmen, known for his prolific run-scoring, aggressive style, and successful captaincy across formats.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Virat Kohli canonical | 9 |
| Kohli | 1 |
| Virat | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1106483 — 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: Virat Kohli Context triple: [Sachin Tendulkar, influenced, Virat Kohli]
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A.
Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar is a legendary Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of the sport.
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B.
Arjun Tendulkar
Arjun Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer and left-arm fast bowler who has played domestic cricket for Mumbai and Goa and is the son of legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar.
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C.
Suresh Tendulkar
Suresh Tendulkar was a prominent Indian economist known for his influential work on poverty measurement and economic policy, and for chairing the committee that introduced a widely used methodology for estimating poverty in India.
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D.
Hashim Amla
Hashim Amla is a South African cricketer renowned as one of his country’s greatest batsmen, noted for his prolific run-scoring and elegant batting style in international cricket.
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E.
Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar
Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar was a renowned Indian playwright, screenwriter, and journalist, celebrated for his powerful and socially critical Marathi plays.
- 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: Virat Kohli Target entity description: Virat Kohli is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the modern era’s greatest batsmen, known for his prolific run-scoring, aggressive style, and successful captaincy across formats.
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A.
Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar is a legendary Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of the sport.
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B.
Arjun Tendulkar
Arjun Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer and left-arm fast bowler who has played domestic cricket for Mumbai and Goa and is the son of legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar.
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C.
Suresh Tendulkar
Suresh Tendulkar was a prominent Indian economist known for his influential work on poverty measurement and economic policy, and for chairing the committee that introduced a widely used methodology for estimating poverty in India.
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D.
Hashim Amla
Hashim Amla is a South African cricketer renowned as one of his country’s greatest batsmen, noted for his prolific run-scoring and elegant batting style in international cricket.
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E.
Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar
Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar was a renowned Indian playwright, screenwriter, and journalist, celebrated for his powerful and socially critical Marathi plays.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
batsman
ⓘ
cricketer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| battingPosition | number 3 ⓘ |
| battingReputation | one of the greatest batsmen of the modern era ⓘ |
| battingStyle | right-handed ⓘ |
| bowlingStyle | right-arm medium ⓘ |
| captaincyStyle | aggressive ⓘ |
| captainedFormat |
One Day International cricket
ⓘ
Test cricket ⓘ Twenty20 International cricket ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | India ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1988-11-05 ⓘ |
| debutFormat | ODI ⓘ |
| familyName |
Kohli
ⓘ
linked to:
Virat Kohli
|
| formatSpecialization | all formats ⓘ |
| formerCaptainOf | India national cricket team ⓘ |
| founded | Virat Kohli Foundation ⓘ |
| fullName | Virat Kohli ⓘ |
| givenName |
Virat
ⓘ
linked to:
Virat Kohli
|
| hasWon |
Arjuna Award
ⓘ
ICC Champions Trophy 2013 ⓘ
linked to:
ICC Champions Trophy
ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 ⓘ
linked to:
2011 Cricket World Cup
ICC Cricketer of the Year awards ⓘ
linked to:
ICC Cricketer of the Year
ICC ODI Player of the Year awards ⓘ
linked to:
ICC Awards
ICC T20 World Cup 2024 ⓘ
linked to:
ICC T20 World Cup
ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2008 as captain ⓘ Padma Shri ⓘ Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna ⓘ Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy ⓘ |
| homeCity | Delhi ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 18 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
aggressive batting style
ⓘ
aggressive captaincy ⓘ chasing targets in limited-overs cricket ⓘ prolific run-scoring ⓘ |
| league | Indian Premier League ⓘ |
| nationality | Indian ⓘ |
| occupation | professional cricketer ⓘ |
| odiDebutYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Delhi, India
ⓘ
linked to:
Delhi
|
| playsFor | India national cricket team ⓘ |
| role |
former captain
ⓘ
top-order batsman ⓘ |
| sport | cricket ⓘ |
| spouse | Anushka Sharma ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | Bollywood actress ⓘ |
| t20iDebutYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| team | Royal Challengers Bengaluru ⓘ |
| testDebutYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| youthTeam | India Under-19 cricket team ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Virat Kohli Description of subject: Virat Kohli is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the modern era’s greatest batsmen, known for his prolific run-scoring, aggressive style, and successful captaincy across formats.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Virat Kohli
linked to: Virat Kohli