Clive Charles
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Clive Charles was an English-born soccer coach and former professional player best known for building the University of Portland into a collegiate powerhouse and mentoring numerous future U.S. national team stars.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clive Charles canonical | 2 |
| Clive Michael Charles | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2705743 — 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: Clive Charles Context triple: [Portland Pilots women's soccer, formerHeadCoach, Clive Charles]
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A.
Clive Griffin
Clive Griffin is a British pop and soul singer best known for his 1993 duet "When I Fall in Love" with Celine Dion from the film Sleepless in Seattle.
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B.
Noel Chiappa
Noel Chiappa is a computer scientist and Internet pioneer known for his early work on networking protocols and contributions to the development of the Internet architecture.
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C.
Warren Clarke
Warren Clarke was a British character actor known for his powerful performances in film and television, including notable roles in "A Clockwork Orange" and the series "Dalziel and Pascoe."
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D.
Leonard Craske
Leonard Craske was a British-born American sculptor best known for creating the iconic Gloucester Fishermen’s Memorial in Massachusetts.
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E.
Roger Whittaker
Roger Whittaker was a Kenyan-born British singer-songwriter and whistler known for his smooth baritone voice and easy-listening folk and pop songs such as "Durham Town" and "The Last Farewell."
- 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: Clive Charles Target entity description: Clive Charles was an English-born soccer coach and former professional player best known for building the University of Portland into a collegiate powerhouse and mentoring numerous future U.S. national team stars.
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A.
Clive Griffin
Clive Griffin is a British pop and soul singer best known for his 1993 duet "When I Fall in Love" with Celine Dion from the film Sleepless in Seattle.
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B.
Noel Chiappa
Noel Chiappa is a computer scientist and Internet pioneer known for his early work on networking protocols and contributions to the development of the Internet architecture.
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C.
Warren Clarke
Warren Clarke was a British character actor known for his powerful performances in film and television, including notable roles in "A Clockwork Orange" and the series "Dalziel and Pascoe."
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D.
Leonard Craske
Leonard Craske was a British-born American sculptor best known for creating the iconic Gloucester Fishermen’s Memorial in Massachusetts.
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E.
Roger Whittaker
Roger Whittaker was a Kenyan-born British singer-songwriter and whistler known for his smooth baritone voice and easy-listening folk and pop songs such as "Durham Town" and "The Last Farewell."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
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football coach ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | National Soccer Hall of Fame induction ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | prostate cancer ⓘ |
| coachOf |
United States men’s Olympic soccer team
ⓘ
University of Portland Pilots men’s soccer team ⓘ
linked to:
Portland Pilots men’s soccer team
University of Portland Pilots women’s soccer team ⓘ
linked to:
Portland Pilots women's soccer
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951-10-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2003-08-26 ⓘ |
| employer |
Portland Timbers (NASL)
ⓘ
linked to:
Portland Timbers
United States U-23 men’s national soccer team ⓘ United States women’s national under-20 soccer team ⓘ University of Portland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Black British ⓘ |
| familyName | Charles ⓘ |
| genre | college soccer ⓘ |
| givenName | Clive ⓘ |
| league |
North American Soccer League
ⓘ
linked to:
North American Soccer League (1968–1984)
|
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Cardiff City F.C.
ⓘ
Montreal Olympique ⓘ Portland Timbers (NASL) ⓘ
linked to:
Portland Timbers
West Ham United F.C. ⓘ |
| name |
Clive Michael Charles
ⓘ
linked to:
Clive Charles
|
| notableFor |
developing both men’s and women’s programs at University of Portland
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mentoring numerous future U.S. national team players ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Conor Casey
ⓘ
Heidi Mohr ⓘ Kasey Keller ⓘ Shannon MacMillan ⓘ Steve Cherundolo ⓘ Tiffeny Milbrett ⓘ |
| notableWork | building University of Portland soccer program into a national powerhouse ⓘ |
| occupation |
Olympic team coach
ⓘ
college soccer coach ⓘ professional footballer ⓘ |
| participantIn |
2000 Summer Olympics football tournament (men)
ⓘ
linked to:
Men's Olympic Football Tournament
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| placeOfBirth |
Dagenham
ⓘ
London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
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| placeOfDeath |
Portland, Oregon
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linked to:
Portland, Oregon, United States
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| positionPlayed |
defender
ⓘ
full-back ⓘ |
| residence |
Portland, Oregon
ⓘ
linked to:
Portland
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| spouse | Clarena Charles ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Portland, Oregon
ⓘ
linked to:
Portland
|
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: Clive Charles Description of subject: Clive Charles was an English-born soccer coach and former professional player best known for building the University of Portland into a collegiate powerhouse and mentoring numerous future U.S. national team stars.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Clive Charles