Johan Neeskens
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Johan Neeskens is a former Dutch footballer renowned as one of the world’s best midfielders of the 1970s, especially for his role in the Netherlands’ “Total Football” era and at clubs like Ajax and FC Barcelona.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Johan Neeskens canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7786439 — 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: Johan Neeskens Context triple: [New York Cosmos, notablePlayer, Johan Neeskens]
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A.
Kevin Tent
Kevin Tent is an American film editor best known for his long-time collaboration with director Alexander Payne on acclaimed films such as "The Descendants."
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B.
Paul Troost
Paul Troost was a prominent German architect of the early 20th century known for his neoclassical designs and close association with the Nazi regime.
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C.
Wim van de Donk
Wim van de Donk is a Dutch academic and public administrator known for his leadership roles in higher education and government, including serving as rector magnificus of Tilburg University and as King’s Commissioner in the province of North Brabant.
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D.
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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E.
Peter Kloo
Peter Kloo is a German local politician who serves as the mayor of the Bavarian town of Kolbermoor.
- 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: Johan Neeskens Target entity description: Johan Neeskens is a former Dutch footballer renowned as one of the world’s best midfielders of the 1970s, especially for his role in the Netherlands’ “Total Football” era and at clubs like Ajax and FC Barcelona.
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A.
Kevin Tent
Kevin Tent is an American film editor best known for his long-time collaboration with director Alexander Payne on acclaimed films such as "The Descendants."
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B.
Paul Troost
Paul Troost was a prominent German architect of the early 20th century known for his neoclassical designs and close association with the Nazi regime.
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C.
Wim van de Donk
Wim van de Donk is a Dutch academic and public administrator known for his leadership roles in higher education and government, including serving as rector magnificus of Tilburg University and as King’s Commissioner in the province of North Brabant.
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D.
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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E.
Peter Kloo
Peter Kloo is a German local politician who serves as the mayor of the Bavarian town of Kolbermoor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
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human ⓘ midfielder ⓘ |
| clubAchieved |
Copa del Rey winner with FC Barcelona
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European Cup winner with Ajax ⓘ Intercontinental Cup winner with Ajax ⓘ La Liga winner with FC Barcelona ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951-09-15 ⓘ |
| familyName | Neeskens ⓘ |
| fullName | Johannes Jacobus Neeskens ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Johannes ⓘ |
| hasRole | assistant coach ⓘ |
| knownFor |
penalty taking
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powerful shooting ⓘ stamina and work rate ⓘ tackling and ball-winning ability ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
AFC Ajax
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FC Baar ⓘ FC Barcelona ⓘ FC Groningen ⓘ FC Utrecht ⓘ Netherlands national football team ⓘ New York Cosmos ⓘ Rangers International (USA) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the best midfielders of the 1970s
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role in the Netherlands Total Football era ⓘ |
| numberOfAppearancesForNationalTeam | 49 ⓘ |
| numberOfGoalsForNationalTeam | 17 ⓘ |
| occupation | football coach ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
1974 FIFA World Cup
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1976 UEFA European Championship ⓘ
linked to:
UEFA Euro 1976
1978 FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Heemstede, Netherlands ⓘ |
| playsForNationalTeam | Netherlands national football team ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
defensive midfielder
ⓘ
midfielder ⓘ |
| shirtNumber | 13 ⓘ |
| sportsDiscipline | association football ⓘ |
| styleOfPlay | Total Football ⓘ |
| teamAchieved |
1974 FIFA World Cup runner-up with Netherlands
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1976 UEFA European Championship third place with Netherlands ⓘ 1978 FIFA World Cup runner-up with Netherlands ⓘ |
| teammateOf |
Johan Cruyff
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Rob Rensenbrink ⓘ Ruud Krol ⓘ |
| workedAsCoachFor |
FC Barcelona (assistant)
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Galatasaray (assistant) ⓘ Netherlands national football team (assistant) ⓘ
linked to:
Netherlands national football team
PSV Eindhoven (assistant) ⓘ South African national football team (assistant) ⓘ |
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: Johan Neeskens Description of subject: Johan Neeskens is a former Dutch footballer renowned as one of the world’s best midfielders of the 1970s, especially for his role in the Netherlands’ “Total Football” era and at clubs like Ajax and FC Barcelona.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.