Samuel Kuffour
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Samuel Kuffour is a retired Ghanaian defender best known for his successful career with Bayern Munich and the Ghana national team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samuel Kuffour canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12587997 — 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: Samuel Kuffour Context triple: [Ghana national under-17 football team, famousAlumni, Samuel Kuffour]
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A.
Asamoah Gyan
Asamoah Gyan is a Ghanaian former professional footballer and prolific striker, best known as Ghana’s all-time leading goalscorer and one of Africa’s most prominent forwards of his generation.
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B.
Kofi Ansah
Kofi Ansah was a renowned Ghanaian fashion designer celebrated for blending traditional African textiles with contemporary haute couture.
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C.
Kwame Boateng
Kwame Boateng is a personal name that may refer to multiple individuals, often of Ghanaian origin, across various fields such as sports, arts, or public life.
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D.
Tony Yeboah
Tony Yeboah is a retired Ghanaian striker best known for his prolific goal-scoring in the Bundesliga and Premier League, particularly with Eintracht Frankfurt and Leeds United.
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E.
Jonathan Mensah
Jonathan Mensah is a Ghanaian professional footballer and central defender who has represented Ghana at multiple FIFA World Cups and played for clubs in Europe, Africa, and Major League Soccer.
- 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: Samuel Kuffour Target entity description: Samuel Kuffour is a retired Ghanaian defender best known for his successful career with Bayern Munich and the Ghana national team.
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A.
Asamoah Gyan
Asamoah Gyan is a Ghanaian former professional footballer and prolific striker, best known as Ghana’s all-time leading goalscorer and one of Africa’s most prominent forwards of his generation.
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B.
Kofi Ansah
Kofi Ansah was a renowned Ghanaian fashion designer celebrated for blending traditional African textiles with contemporary haute couture.
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C.
Kwame Boateng
Kwame Boateng is a personal name that may refer to multiple individuals, often of Ghanaian origin, across various fields such as sports, arts, or public life.
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D.
Tony Yeboah
Tony Yeboah is a retired Ghanaian striker best known for his prolific goal-scoring in the Bundesliga and Premier League, particularly with Eintracht Frankfurt and Leeds United.
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E.
Jonathan Mensah
Jonathan Mensah is a Ghanaian professional footballer and central defender who has represented Ghana at multiple FIFA World Cups and played for clubs in Europe, Africa, and Major League Soccer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| AfricaCupOfNationsParticipation |
1996 Africa Cup of Nations
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
1998 Africa Cup of Nations NERFINISHED ⓘ 2000 Africa Cup of Nations NERFINISHED ⓘ 2002 Africa Cup of Nations NERFINISHED ⓘ 2006 Africa Cup of Nations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| AfricanPlayerOfTheYearTopThreeFinish |
1999
ⓘ
2001 ⓘ |
| BundesligaTitleWith | Bayern Munich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continentOfOrigin | Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ghana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1976-09-03 ⓘ |
| DFBPokalTitleWith | Bayern Munich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Kuffour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FIFAClubWorldCupPredecessorTitleWith | Bayern Munich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FIFAWorldCupParticipation | 2006 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Samuel Osei Kuffour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole | central defender ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Akan
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Ghana national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Ghanaian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
appearances for the Ghana national team
ⓘ
successful career with Bayern Munich ⓘ |
| OlympicMedal | bronze medal ⓘ |
| OlympicMedalFor | Ghana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| OlympicParticipation | 1992 Summer Olympics football tournament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kumasi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
AS Livorno Calcio
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
AS Roma NERFINISHED ⓘ Ajax Cape Town FC NERFINISHED ⓘ Al Ahly SC NERFINISHED ⓘ Bayern Munich NERFINISHED ⓘ Torino FC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
centre-back
ⓘ
defender ⓘ |
| retired | true ⓘ |
| seniorDebutFor | Torino FC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| UEFAChampionsLeagueFinalAppearance |
1998-1999
ⓘ
2000-2001 ⓘ |
| UEFAChampionsLeagueTitle | 2000-2001 ⓘ |
| UEFAChampionsLeagueWinnerWith | Bayern Munich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| youthClub |
King Faisal Babes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Torino FC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Samuel Kuffour Description of subject: Samuel Kuffour is a retired Ghanaian defender best known for his successful career with Bayern Munich and the Ghana national team.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.