Sarina Wiegman

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football manager former football player human

Sarina Wiegman is a highly successful Dutch football manager and former player best known for leading national women’s teams, including England, to major international titles and finals.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Sarina Petronella Wiegman	1
Sarina Wiegman canonical	1
Wiegman	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1319579 — 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: Sarina Wiegman
Context triple: [England women’s national football team, notableCoach, Sarina Wiegman]

A. Jill Ellis
Jill Ellis is an English-American soccer coach best known for leading the United States women’s national team to back-to-back FIFA Women’s World Cup titles in 2015 and 2019.
B. Pia Sundhage
Pia Sundhage is a Swedish football coach and former player best known for leading top women’s national teams, including guiding the U.S. women’s team to multiple major titles.
C. Maayke Velders
Maayke Velders is known primarily as the spouse of Dutch naval hero Michiel de Ruyter.
D. Toni Merkens
Toni Merkens was a German track cyclist best known for winning the gold medal in the sprint event at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
E. Lindsey Horan
Lindsey Horan is an American professional soccer midfielder and U.S. women’s national team standout known for her playmaking, goal-scoring ability, and leadership for club and country.
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: Sarina Wiegman
Target entity description: Sarina Wiegman is a highly successful Dutch football manager and former player best known for leading national women’s teams, including England, to major international titles and finals.

A. Jill Ellis
Jill Ellis is an English-American soccer coach best known for leading the United States women’s national team to back-to-back FIFA Women’s World Cup titles in 2015 and 2019.
B. Pia Sundhage
Pia Sundhage is a Swedish football coach and former player best known for leading top women’s national teams, including guiding the U.S. women’s team to multiple major titles.
C. Maayke Velders
Maayke Velders is known primarily as the spouse of Dutch naval hero Michiel de Ruyter.
D. Toni Merkens
Toni Merkens was a German track cyclist best known for winning the gold medal in the sprint event at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
E. Lindsey Horan
Lindsey Horan is an American professional soccer midfielder and U.S. women’s national team standout known for her playmaking, goal-scoring ability, and leadership for club and country.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	football manager ⓘ former football player ⓘ human ⓘ
awardReceived	Best FIFA Women’s Coach ⓘ Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau ⓘ UEFA Women’s Coach of the Year Award ⓘ
caps	over 100 caps for Netherlands women’s national football team ⓘ
citizenship	Netherlands ⓘ
clubPlayedFor	HSV Celeritas ⓘ HSV Celeritas (women) ⓘ KFC ’71 ⓘ North Carolina Tar Heels women’s soccer team ⓘ linked to: North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer Ter Leede ⓘ
collegeTeamPlayedFor	North Carolina Tar Heels ⓘ linked to: Tar Heels
countryManaged	England ⓘ Netherlands ⓘ
countryOfBirth	Netherlands ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1969-10-26 ⓘ
education	graduated from the KNVB coaching courses ⓘ
familyName	Wiegman ⓘ linked to: Sarina Wiegman
fullName	Sarina Petronella Wiegman ⓘ linked to: Sarina Wiegman
gender	female ⓘ
givenName	Sarina ⓘ
honorificTitle	CBE ⓘ
knownFor	leading England women’s national football team to their first Women’s World Cup final in 2023 ⓘ managing England women’s national football team to UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 title ⓘ managing Netherlands women’s national football team to UEFA Women’s Euro 2017 title ⓘ
languageSpoken	Dutch ⓘ English ⓘ
ledTeamToFinal	2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup ⓘ 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup ⓘ 2024 UEFA Women’s Nations League Finals ⓘ
managedTeam	ADO Den Haag (women) ⓘ England women’s national football team ⓘ Netherlands women’s national football team ⓘ Ter Leede (women) ⓘ
nationalTeamPlayedFor	Netherlands women’s national football team ⓘ
notableAchievement	first coach to win UEFA Women’s European Championship with two different national teams ⓘ first manager to reach four consecutive major women’s international finals ⓘ
occupation	association football player ⓘ football manager ⓘ
placeOfBirth	The Hague ⓘ
positionPlayed	midfielder ⓘ
reasonForCBE	services to football ⓘ
sport	association football ⓘ
styleOfManagement	tactically flexible, possession-based football ⓘ
tournamentWonAsManager	UEFA Women’s Euro 2017 ⓘ linked to: UEFA Women's European Championship UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 ⓘ linked to: UEFA Women's European Championship UEFA–CONMEBOL Finalissima 2023 (women) ⓘ
workedFor	Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) ⓘ linked to: Royal Dutch Football Association

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

England women’s national football team → notableCoach → Sarina Wiegman ⓘ

Sarina Wiegman → fullName → Sarina Petronella Wiegman ⓘ

linked to: Sarina Wiegman

Sarina Wiegman → familyName → Wiegman ⓘ