Amla
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Amla is the surname of Hashim Amla, a renowned South African cricketer celebrated for his prolific batting and elegant technique.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Amla canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4516935 — 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: Amla Context triple: [Hashim Amla, familyName, Amla]
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A.
Malvan
Malvan is a coastal town in Maharashtra, India, known for its beaches, seafood cuisine, and historic Sindhudurg Fort.
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B.
Haldi
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C.
Banaba
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D.
Jambu Savari
Jambu Savari is the grand elephant-led procession that forms the centerpiece of the Mysuru Dasara celebrations in Karnataka, India.
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E.
Amala
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- 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: Amla Target entity description: Amla is the surname of Hashim Amla, a renowned South African cricketer celebrated for his prolific batting and elegant technique.
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A.
Malvan
Malvan is a coastal town in Maharashtra, India, known for its beaches, seafood cuisine, and historic Sindhudurg Fort.
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B.
Haldi
Haldi is the chief war and national god of the ancient Kingdom of Urartu, central to its state religion and royal ideology.
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C.
Banaba
Banaba is a raised coral island in the Pacific Ocean that is part of the Republic of Kiribati and is known for its rich phosphate deposits and dramatic environmental history.
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D.
Jambu Savari
Jambu Savari is the grand elephant-led procession that forms the centerpiece of the Mysuru Dasara celebrations in Karnataka, India.
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E.
Amala
Amala is the debut studio album by American rapper and singer Doja Cat, showcasing her early blend of R&B, pop, and hip hop.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cricketer
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| achievement | first South African to score a Test triple century ⓘ |
| awarded |
ICC Test Player of the Year
ⓘ
linked to:
ICC Cricketer of the Year
South African Cricketer of the Year ⓘ |
| battingPosition | top-order batsman ⓘ |
| battingStyle | right-handed ⓘ |
| bowlingStyle | right-arm medium ⓘ |
| captained |
South Africa One Day International team
ⓘ
linked to:
South Africa national cricket team
South Africa Test cricket team ⓘ
linked to:
South Africa national cricket team
|
| countryOfBirth | South Africa ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | South Africa ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1983-03-31 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
South African Indian
ⓘ
linked to:
Indians in South Africa
|
| familyName | Amla ⓘ |
| fieldingPosition |
infield
ⓘ
slip cordon ⓘ |
| formatDebut |
One Day International cricket
ⓘ
Test cricket ⓘ Twenty20 International cricket ⓘ |
| fullName |
Hashim Mahomed Amla
ⓘ
linked to:
Hashim Amla
|
| givenName | Hashim ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Ahmed Amla
ⓘ
linked to:
Hashim Amla
|
| knownFor |
consistency in One Day Internationals
ⓘ
consistency in Test cricket ⓘ elegant technique ⓘ prolific batting ⓘ |
| nationality | South African ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
calm demeanor
ⓘ
sportsmanship ⓘ |
| occupation | professional cricketer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Durban ⓘ |
| playedForTeam |
Chennai Super Kings
ⓘ
Dolphins cricket team ⓘ Kings XI Punjab ⓘ KwaZulu-Natal cricket team ⓘ South Africa national cricket team ⓘ Surrey County Cricket Club ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religiousPractice | observant Muslim ⓘ |
| retiredFromFormat | international cricket ⓘ |
| role | batsman ⓘ |
| shirtNumberODI | 1 ⓘ |
| shirtNumberT20I | 1 ⓘ |
| sport | cricket ⓘ |
| style | classical batsman ⓘ |
| testTripleCentury | 311 not out vs England at The Oval ⓘ |
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: Amla Description of subject: Amla is the surname of Hashim Amla, a renowned South African cricketer celebrated for his prolific batting and elegant technique.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Amla