Telê Santana
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Telê Santana was a renowned Brazilian football manager best known for his attacking style and for coaching both top clubs and the Brazil national team in the 1982 and 1986 World Cups.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Telê Santana canonical | 3 |
| Telê Santana da Silva | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2720712 — 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: Telê Santana Context triple: [São Paulo FC, notableCoach, Telê Santana]
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A.
Caetano
Caetano is a Portuguese surname most notably associated with Marcelo Caetano, the last prime minister of Portugal’s Estado Novo regime.
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B.
Ary Barroso
Ary Barroso was a prominent Brazilian composer and musician, best known as one of the pioneers of samba and for writing iconic songs like "Aquarela do Brasil."
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C.
Luís Montenegro
Luís Montenegro is a Portuguese politician and leader of the Social Democratic Party who became Prime Minister of Portugal after António Costa.
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D.
Lobo Antunes
Lobo Antunes is the family name of António Lobo Antunes, a prominent Portuguese novelist and former psychiatrist known for his complex, introspective literary style.
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E.
Toninho
Toninho is a common Portuguese diminutive form of the given name Antônio, often used as an affectionate nickname in Brazil and other Lusophone countries.
- 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: Telê Santana Target entity description: Telê Santana was a renowned Brazilian football manager best known for his attacking style and for coaching both top clubs and the Brazil national team in the 1982 and 1986 World Cups.
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A.
Caetano
Caetano is a Portuguese surname most notably associated with Marcelo Caetano, the last prime minister of Portugal’s Estado Novo regime.
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B.
Ary Barroso
Ary Barroso was a prominent Brazilian composer and musician, best known as one of the pioneers of samba and for writing iconic songs like "Aquarela do Brasil."
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C.
Luís Montenegro
Luís Montenegro is a Portuguese politician and leader of the Social Democratic Party who became Prime Minister of Portugal after António Costa.
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D.
Lobo Antunes
Lobo Antunes is the family name of António Lobo Antunes, a prominent Portuguese novelist and former psychiatrist known for his complex, introspective literary style.
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E.
Toninho
Toninho is a common Portuguese diminutive form of the given name Antônio, often used as an affectionate nickname in Brazil and other Lusophone countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
ⓘ
football manager ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Copa Libertadores winning manager
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Intercontinental Cup winning manager ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
ⓘ
linked to:
Belo Horizonte
|
| causeOfDeath | multiple organ failure ⓘ |
| clubManagedMostNotably |
Atlético Mineiro
ⓘ
linked to:
Clube Atlético Mineiro
Fluminense FC ⓘ São Paulo FC ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Brazil ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1931-07-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2006-04-21 ⓘ |
| familyName | Santana ⓘ |
| fullName |
Telê Santana da Silva
ⓘ
linked to:
Telê Santana
|
| givenName | Telê ⓘ |
| influenced | Brazilian football tactics in the 1980s ⓘ |
| knownFor |
attacking style of football
ⓘ
coaching Brazil national football team at the 1982 FIFA World Cup ⓘ coaching Brazil national football team at the 1986 FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
| legacy | considered one of Brazil’s greatest football managers ⓘ |
| managedTeam |
Al-Ahli Saudi FC
ⓘ
linked to:
Al Ahli Saudi FC
Al-Hilal FC ⓘ
linked to:
Al Hilal SFC
Al-Nassr FC ⓘ
linked to:
Al Nassr FC
Atlético Mineiro ⓘ
linked to:
Clube Atlético Mineiro
Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas ⓘ
linked to:
Botafogo FR
Brazil national football team ⓘ Fluminense FC ⓘ Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense ⓘ Palmeiras ⓘ
linked to:
Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras
São Paulo FC ⓘ |
| nationality | Brazilian ⓘ |
| nickname | Mestre Telê ⓘ |
| occupation |
football manager
ⓘ
football player ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
1982 FIFA World Cup
ⓘ
1986 FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Itabirito, Minas Gerais, Brazil ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
ⓘ
linked to:
Belo Horizonte
|
| playedFor |
Fluminense FC
ⓘ
Guarani FC ⓘ
linked to:
Guarani Futebol Clube
Vasco da Gama ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | right winger ⓘ |
| roleInEvent |
head coach of Brazil national football team at 1982 FIFA World Cup
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head coach of Brazil national football team at 1986 FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| styleOfPlay |
offensive football
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possession-based 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: Telê Santana Description of subject: Telê Santana was a renowned Brazilian football manager best known for his attacking style and for coaching both top clubs and the Brazil national team in the 1982 and 1986 World Cups.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.