Neymar Jr. (association football)
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Neymar Jr. is a Brazilian professional footballer widely regarded for his flair, dribbling, and goal-scoring ability, starring for clubs like Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain as well as the Brazil national team.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Neymar | 10 |
| Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior | 2 |
| Neymar Jr. | 1 |
| Neymar Jr. (association football) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1140473 — 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: Neymar Jr. (association football) Context triple: [Puma, sponsorsAthlete, Neymar Jr. (association football)]
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A.
Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi is an Argentine professional footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, known for his extraordinary dribbling, playmaking, and goal-scoring records for club and country.
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B.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese professional footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, known for his prolific goal-scoring, athleticism, and success with clubs and country.
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C.
Ricardo Nunes
Ricardo Nunes is a Brazilian politician who serves as the mayor of São Paulo, one of the largest cities in the world.
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D.
Pele
Pele is the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes and fire, revered as the powerful creator and destroyer of land in Hawaiian mythology.
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E.
Obafemi Martins
Obafemi Martins is a Nigerian professional footballer known for his explosive pace, acrobatic goal celebrations, and prolific scoring spells in Europe 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: Neymar Jr. (association football) Target entity description: Neymar Jr. is a Brazilian professional footballer widely regarded for his flair, dribbling, and goal-scoring ability, starring for clubs like Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain as well as the Brazil national team.
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A.
Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi is an Argentine professional footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, known for his extraordinary dribbling, playmaking, and goal-scoring records for club and country.
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B.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese professional footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, known for his prolific goal-scoring, athleticism, and success with clubs and country.
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C.
Ricardo Nunes
Ricardo Nunes is a Brazilian politician who serves as the mayor of São Paulo, one of the largest cities in the world.
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D.
Pele
Pele is the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes and fire, revered as the powerful creator and destroyer of land in Hawaiian mythology.
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E.
Obafemi Martins
Obafemi Martins is a Nigerian professional footballer known for his explosive pace, acrobatic goal celebrations, and prolific scoring spells in Europe and Major League Soccer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brazil international footballer
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association football player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| clubDebutYearForAlHilal | 2023 ⓘ |
| clubDebutYearForBarcelona | 2013 ⓘ |
| clubDebutYearForParisSaintGermain | 2017 ⓘ |
| clubDebutYearForSantos | 2009 ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Brazil ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Brazil ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1992-02-05 ⓘ |
| familyName | da Silva Santos ⓘ |
| fullName |
Neymar Jr. (association football)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior
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| givenName |
Neymar Jr. (association football)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Neymar
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| hasAchievement | one of Brazil’s all-time leading goal scorers ⓘ |
| hasPlayedFor |
Al Hilal SFC
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Brazil national football team ⓘ FC Barcelona ⓘ Paris Saint-Germain F.C. ⓘ Santos FC ⓘ |
| height | approximately 1.75 m ⓘ |
| knownFor |
dribbling ability
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flair ⓘ goal-scoring ability ⓘ |
| nationalTeamDebutYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Men's Olympic Football Tournament
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surface form:
2012 Summer Olympics football tournament
2014 FIFA World Cup ⓘ Men's Olympic Football Tournament ⓘ
surface form:
2016 Summer Olympics football tournament
2018 FIFA World Cup ⓘ 2022 FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Mogi das Cruzes ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
forward
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winger ⓘ |
| seniorDebutFor | Santos FC ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| shirtNumberAtBrazilNationalTeam | 10 ⓘ |
| shirtNumberAtParisSaintGermain | 10 ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| styleOfPlay |
prolific goal scorer
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skilful dribbler ⓘ technical and creative attacker ⓘ |
| transfer |
moved from FC Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain in 2017
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moved from Santos FC to FC Barcelona in 2013 ⓘ |
| transferFeeRecord | world-record transfer fee in 2017 move to Paris Saint-Germain ⓘ |
| won |
Copa Libertadores
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surface form:
2011 Copa Libertadores
2013 FIFA Confederations Cup ⓘ La Liga ⓘ
surface form:
2014-15 La Liga
UEFA Champions League 2014–15 ⓘ
surface form:
2015 UEFA Champions League
2016 Olympic gold medal in men’s football ⓘ multiple Ligue 1 titles with Paris Saint-Germain ⓘ |
| youthClub |
Portuguesa Santista
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Santos FC ⓘ |
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: Neymar Jr. (association football) Description of subject: Neymar Jr. is a Brazilian professional footballer widely regarded for his flair, dribbling, and goal-scoring ability, starring for clubs like Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain as well as the Brazil national team.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Neymar
this entity surface form:
Neymar Jr.
this entity surface form:
Neymar
this entity surface form:
Neymar
this entity surface form:
Neymar
subject surface form:
Neymar
this entity surface form:
Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior
Neymar Jr. (association football)
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Neymar Jr. (association football)
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subject surface form:
Neymar Jr.
this entity surface form:
Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior
Neymar Jr. (association football)
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givenName
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Neymar Jr. (association football)
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subject surface form:
Neymar Jr.
this entity surface form:
Neymar
this entity surface form:
Neymar
this entity surface form:
Neymar
this entity surface form:
Neymar
this entity surface form:
Neymar
this entity surface form:
Neymar