Tony Meola
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Tony Meola is a former American soccer goalkeeper best known for starring with the U.S. national team in the 1990 and 1994 World Cups and for his standout career in Major League Soccer.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tony Meola canonical | 16 |
| Antonio Michael Meola | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1150714 — 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)
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Target entity: Tony Meola Context triple: [MLS Cup 2000, manOfTheMatch, Tony Meola]
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A.
Tom Lofaro
Tom Lofaro is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the long-running comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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B.
Dan Iassogna
Dan Iassogna is a veteran Major League Baseball umpire who has officiated numerous postseason games, including serving as crew chief in the World Series.
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C.
Don Granato
Don Granato is an American professional ice hockey coach known for leading the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres and for his extensive development work with young players.
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D.
Paul Merolla
Paul Merolla is a neuroscientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Neuralink, the neurotechnology company developing brain–computer interfaces.
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E.
Chris Brancato
Chris Brancato is an American television writer and producer best known for his work on crime dramas, including co-creating the acclaimed Netflix series "Narcos."
- 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: Tony Meola Target entity description: Tony Meola is a former American soccer goalkeeper best known for starring with the U.S. national team in the 1990 and 1994 World Cups and for his standout career in Major League Soccer.
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A.
Tom Lofaro
Tom Lofaro is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the long-running comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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B.
Dan Iassogna
Dan Iassogna is a veteran Major League Baseball umpire who has officiated numerous postseason games, including serving as crew chief in the World Series.
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C.
Don Granato
Don Granato is an American professional ice hockey coach known for leading the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres and for his extensive development work with young players.
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D.
Paul Merolla
Paul Merolla is a neuroscientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Neuralink, the neurotechnology company developing brain–computer interfaces.
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E.
Chris Brancato
Chris Brancato is an American television writer and producer best known for his work on crime dramas, including co-creating the acclaimed Netflix series "Narcos."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
ⓘ
goalkeeper ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
CONCACAF Gold Cup winner
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MLS Best XI ⓘ MLS Goalkeeper of the Year Award ⓘ MLS Most Valuable Player Award ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | University of Virginia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
SiriusXM FC
ⓘ
linked to:
SiriusXM
|
| fullName |
Antonio Michael Meola
ⓘ
linked to:
Tony Meola
|
| givenName | Antonio ⓘ |
| league | Major League Soccer ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.
ⓘ
Buffalo Blizzard ⓘ Fort Lauderdale Strikers ⓘ Kansas City Wizards ⓘ
linked to:
Sporting Kansas City
Long Island Rough Riders ⓘ MetroStars ⓘ New Jersey Ironmen ⓘ New York Centaurs ⓘ New York Fever ⓘ New York Red Bulls ⓘ United States men's national soccer team ⓘ Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer ⓘ
linked to:
University of Virginia men's soccer team
Watford F.C. ⓘ |
| nickname | Tony Meola ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
key figure in popularizing soccer in the United States in the early 1990s
ⓘ
one of the most capped goalkeepers in United States men's national team history ⓘ |
| notableWork |
1996 MLS season with Kansas City Wizards
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2000 MLS season with Kansas City Wizards ⓘ leading the United States at the 1994 FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
| occupation |
association football player
ⓘ
radio host ⓘ sports commentator ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1990 FIFA World Cup
ⓘ
1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup ⓘ
linked to:
CONCACAF Gold Cup
1993 CONCACAF Gold Cup ⓘ
linked to:
CONCACAF Gold Cup
1994 FIFA World Cup ⓘ 1995 Copa América ⓘ 2002 FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Kansas City Wizards in Major League Soccer
ⓘ
linked to:
Sporting Kansas City
MetroStars in Major League Soccer ⓘ New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer ⓘ |
| position |
starting goalkeeper for the United States at the 1990 FIFA World Cup
ⓘ
starting goalkeeper for the United States at the 1994 FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | goalkeeper ⓘ |
| representedNationalTeam | United States men's national soccer team ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
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: Tony Meola Description of subject: Tony Meola is a former American soccer goalkeeper best known for starring with the U.S. national team in the 1990 and 1994 World Cups and for his standout career in Major League Soccer.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.