Glen Johnson
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Glen Johnson is a retired English professional footballer best known as an attacking right-back who played for clubs including West Ham United, Chelsea, Liverpool, and the England national team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glen Johnson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4799127 — 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: Glen Johnson Context triple: [The Academy of Football, notableAlumni, Glen Johnson]
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A.
Wes Morgan
Wes Morgan is a Jamaican former professional footballer best known for captaining Leicester City to their historic 2015–16 Premier League title.
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B.
Steven Davis
Steven Davis is a Northern Irish professional footballer and midfielder renowned for his long international career and captaincy of the Northern Ireland national team, as well as successful club spells with Rangers and Southampton.
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C.
Joey Barton
Joey Barton is an English former professional footballer and manager known for his combative midfield style and frequent controversies on and off the pitch.
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D.
Les Ferdinand
Les Ferdinand is a former English professional footballer and prolific striker best known for his goal-scoring exploits in the Premier League during the 1990s, particularly with Queens Park Rangers, Newcastle United, and Tottenham Hotspur.
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E.
Douglas Shearer
Douglas Shearer was a pioneering Canadian-American sound engineer and special effects designer in Hollywood, renowned for his groundbreaking work at MGM and multiple Academy Awards.
- 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: Glen Johnson Target entity description: Glen Johnson is a retired English professional footballer best known as an attacking right-back who played for clubs including West Ham United, Chelsea, Liverpool, and the England national team.
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A.
Wes Morgan
Wes Morgan is a Jamaican former professional footballer best known for captaining Leicester City to their historic 2015–16 Premier League title.
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B.
Steven Davis
Steven Davis is a Northern Irish professional footballer and midfielder renowned for his long international career and captaincy of the Northern Ireland national team, as well as successful club spells with Rangers and Southampton.
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C.
Joey Barton
Joey Barton is an English former professional footballer and manager known for his combative midfield style and frequent controversies on and off the pitch.
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D.
Les Ferdinand
Les Ferdinand is a former English professional footballer and prolific striker best known for his goal-scoring exploits in the Premier League during the 1990s, particularly with Queens Park Rangers, Newcastle United, and Tottenham Hotspur.
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E.
Douglas Shearer
Douglas Shearer was a pioneering Canadian-American sound engineer and special effects designer in Hollywood, renowned for his groundbreaking work at MGM and multiple Academy Awards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
ⓘ
human ⓘ right-back ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
2010s
ⓘ
early 2000s ⓘ |
| basedOn | English football system ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Johnson ⓘ |
| fullName | Glen McLeod Cooper Johnson ⓘ |
| givenName | Glen ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Black British ⓘ |
| hasPartInMannerOf |
contributing to attack from defence
ⓘ
overlapping runs on the right flank ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| leagueParticipatedIn | Premier League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Chelsea F.C.
ⓘ
England national football team ⓘ England under-21 national football team ⓘ
linked to:
England national under-21 football team
Liverpool F.C. ⓘ Millwall F.C. ⓘ Portsmouth F.C. ⓘ Stoke City F.C. ⓘ West Ham United F.C. ⓘ |
| notableFor | attacking right-back playstyle ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Premier League appearances for Chelsea F.C.
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Premier League appearances for Liverpool F.C. ⓘ Premier League appearances for Portsmouth F.C. ⓘ Premier League appearances for West Ham United F.C. ⓘ |
| occupation | professional footballer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
FIFA World Cup
ⓘ
UEFA European Championship ⓘ |
| playsInPositionStyle | attacking full-back ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
full-back
ⓘ
right-back ⓘ |
| representedNationalTeam | England ⓘ |
| retiredFrom | professional football ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| sportingRole | defender ⓘ |
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: Glen Johnson Description of subject: Glen Johnson is a retired English professional footballer best known as an attacking right-back who played for clubs including West Ham United, Chelsea, Liverpool, and the England national team.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.