The Best FIFA Women's Player

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FIFA award football award

The Best FIFA Women's Player is an annual FIFA award honoring the most outstanding female footballer in the world for her performances over the preceding season.

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Label	Occurrences
The Best FIFA Women's Player canonical	5
The Best FIFA Women’s Player	4
FIFA Women's World Player of the Year	2
FIFA World Player of the Year (Women)	1
The Best FIFA Women's Player 2021	1
The Best FIFA Women's Player 2022	1
The Best FIFA Women’s Player 2016	1
The Best FIFA Women’s Player award	1
The Best Women's Player	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5569086 — 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.

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Target entity: The Best FIFA Women's Player
Context triple: [Megan Rapinoe, awardReceived, The Best FIFA Women's Player]

A. FIFA World Player of the Year
The FIFA World Player of the Year was an annual football award presented by FIFA from 1991 to 2009 to honor the world's best male and female players as voted by national team coaches and captains.
B. FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship Golden Ball
The FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship Golden Ball is the award given to the most outstanding player of the FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship tournament.
C. FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship Golden Shoe
The FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship Golden Shoe is the award given to the top goal scorer at the FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship tournament.
D. FIFA Club World Cup Silver Ball
The FIFA Club World Cup Silver Ball is an individual award presented to the tournament’s second-best player, as judged by the organizing committee.
E. U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year
The U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year is an annual award honoring the top-performing female player in the United States national soccer program.
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: The Best FIFA Women's Player
Target entity description: The Best FIFA Women's Player is an annual FIFA award honoring the most outstanding female footballer in the world for her performances over the preceding season.

A. FIFA World Player of the Year
The FIFA World Player of the Year was an annual football award presented by FIFA from 1991 to 2009 to honor the world's best male and female players as voted by national team coaches and captains.
B. FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship Golden Ball
The FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship Golden Ball is the award given to the most outstanding player of the FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship tournament.
C. FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship Golden Shoe
The FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship Golden Shoe is the award given to the top goal scorer at the FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship tournament.
D. FIFA Club World Cup Silver Ball
The FIFA Club World Cup Silver Ball is an individual award presented to the tournament’s second-best player, as judged by the organizing committee.
E. U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year
The U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year is an annual award honoring the top-performing female player in the United States national soccer program.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	FIFA award ⓘ football award ⓘ
awardedFor	individual performance ⓘ sportsmanship ⓘ team achievements ⓘ
awardFor	best female footballer in the world ⓘ
awardingBody	FIFA Council ⓘ
category	women's association football awards ⓘ
country	Switzerland ⓘ
firstAwarded	2016 ⓘ
firstWinner	Carli Lloyd ⓘ
frequency	annual ⓘ
gender	women ⓘ
hasHashtag	#TheBest ⓘ
hasMediaType	trophy ⓘ
hasWebsite	https://www.fifa.com/the-best-fifa-football-awards ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Zurich ⓘ
inception	2016 ⓘ
locationOfCeremony	various host cities ⓘ
notableWinner	Ada Hegerberg ⓘ Aitana Bonmatí ⓘ Alexia Putellas ⓘ Carli Lloyd ⓘ Lieke Martens ⓘ Lucy Bronze ⓘ Marta ⓘ Megan Rapinoe ⓘ
officialLanguage	English ⓘ French ⓘ Spanish ⓘ
organizer	FIFA ⓘ
partOf	The Best FIFA Football Awards ⓘ linked to: The Best FIFA Awards
presentedBy	FIFA ⓘ
relatedAward	The Best FIFA Men's Player ⓘ The Best FIFA Women's Coach ⓘ linked to: Best FIFA Women’s Coach The Best FIFA Women's Goalkeeper ⓘ linked to: The Best FIFA Women’s Goalkeeper
replaced	FIFA Women's World Player of the Year ⓘ linked to: The Best FIFA Women's Player
selectionCriteria	performances over the preceding season ⓘ
selectionMethod	voting ⓘ
shortName	The Best Women's Player ⓘ linked to: The Best FIFA Women's Player
sport	association football ⓘ
voterGroup	fans ⓘ national team captains ⓘ national team coaches ⓘ selected journalists ⓘ

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