Edwin van der Sar
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Edwin van der Sar is a retired Dutch football goalkeeper best known for his successful club career with Ajax and Manchester United and for being one of the most capped players in the history of the Netherlands national team.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edwin van der Sar canonical | 11 |
| Edwin van der Sar set a Premier League record for consecutive minutes without conceding a goal | 1 |
| van der Sar | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2973417 — 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: Edwin van der Sar Context triple: [Heemstede, hasNotablePerson, Edwin van der Sar]
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A.
Marc Overmars
Marc Overmars is a former Dutch winger renowned for his blistering pace and key roles at clubs like Ajax, Arsenal, and Barcelona, as well as for his contributions to the Netherlands national team in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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B.
Eric Cantona
Eric Cantona is a charismatic former French footballer renowned for his influential role in Manchester United’s dominance in the early 1990s and his iconic, often controversial, presence on and off the pitch.
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C.
Ian Wright
Ian Wright is a former English striker renowned for his prolific goal-scoring at Arsenal and as a charismatic football pundit.
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D.
Ian Wright
Ian Wright is a New Zealand-born engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of electric vehicle company Tesla, Inc.
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E.
Paul Scholes
Paul Scholes is an English former professional footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of his generation, known for his passing, vision, and long-range shooting.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Edwin van der Sar Target entity description: Edwin van der Sar is a retired Dutch football goalkeeper best known for his successful club career with Ajax and Manchester United and for being one of the most capped players in the history of the Netherlands national team.
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A.
Marc Overmars
Marc Overmars is a former Dutch winger renowned for his blistering pace and key roles at clubs like Ajax, Arsenal, and Barcelona, as well as for his contributions to the Netherlands national team in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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B.
Eric Cantona
Eric Cantona is a charismatic former French footballer renowned for his influential role in Manchester United’s dominance in the early 1990s and his iconic, often controversial, presence on and off the pitch.
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C.
Ian Wright
Ian Wright is a former English striker renowned for his prolific goal-scoring at Arsenal and as a charismatic football pundit.
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D.
Ian Wright
Ian Wright is a New Zealand-born engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of electric vehicle company Tesla, Inc.
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E.
Paul Scholes
Paul Scholes is an English former professional footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of his generation, known for his passing, vision, and long-range shooting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
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goalkeeper ⓘ human ⓘ |
| clubCareerStart | Ajax ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1970-10-29 ⓘ |
| employer | AFC Ajax ⓘ |
| familyName |
van der Sar
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linked to:
Edwin van der Sar
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| fullName | Edwin van der Sar ⓘ |
| givenName | Edwin ⓘ |
| height | 1.97 m ⓘ |
| joinedClub |
Ajax senior team in early 1990s
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Fulham in 2001 ⓘ Juventus in 1999 ⓘ Manchester United in 2005 ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Ajax
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Fulham ⓘ
linked to:
Fulham F.C.
Juventus ⓘ
linked to:
Juventus FC
Manchester United ⓘ
linked to:
Manchester United F.C.
Netherlands national football team ⓘ |
| nationality | Dutch ⓘ |
| numberOfAppearancesForClub |
Ajax: over 300 appearances (all competitions)
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Manchester United: over 250 appearances (all competitions) ⓘ |
| numberOfInternationalCaps | 130+ for Netherlands ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
1998 FIFA World Cup
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2006 FIFA World Cup ⓘ UEFA Euro 1996 ⓘ UEFA Euro 2000 ⓘ UEFA Euro 2004 ⓘ UEFA Euro 2008 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Netherlands
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South Holland ⓘ Voorhout ⓘ |
| playingPosition | goalkeeper ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Ajax
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marketing director of Ajax ⓘ |
| postRetirementRole | football executive ⓘ |
| recordHeld | one of the most capped Netherlands players ⓘ |
| residence | Netherlands ⓘ |
| retiredFromInternationalFootball | 2008 ⓘ |
| retiredFromProfessionalFootball | 2011 ⓘ |
| savedPenaltyIn | 2008 UEFA Champions League Final shoot-out ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| spouse | Annette van der Sar ⓘ |
| wonCompetition |
UEFA Champions League with Ajax (1994–95)
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linked to:
UEFA Champions League 1994–95
UEFA Champions League with Manchester United (2007–08) ⓘ multiple Eredivisie titles with Ajax ⓘ multiple Premier League titles with Manchester United ⓘ |
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: Edwin van der Sar Description of subject: Edwin van der Sar is a retired Dutch football goalkeeper best known for his successful club career with Ajax and Manchester United and for being one of the most capped players in the history of the Netherlands national team.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Edwin van der Sar
Premier League 2008–09
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Edwin van der Sar set a Premier League record for consecutive minutes without conceding a goal
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linked to: Edwin van der Sar