N’Golo Kanté

E153596

human professional footballer

N’Golo Kanté is a French professional footballer renowned as one of the world’s best defensive midfielders, celebrated for his tireless work rate, ball-winning ability, and key roles in Leicester City’s 2015–16 Premier League title and France’s 2018 World Cup victory.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
N’Golo Kanté canonical	4
Kante	2
N'Golo Kanté	2
Kanté	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1307094 — 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: N’Golo Kanté
Context triple: [Saudi Pro League, hasNotablePlayer, N’Golo Kanté]

A. Riyad Mahrez
Riyad Mahrez is an Algerian professional footballer, renowned as a skillful winger, who has starred for clubs like Leicester City and Manchester City and played a key role in multiple Premier League title wins.
B. Sadio Mané
Sadio Mané is a Senegalese professional footballer renowned as one of Africa’s top forwards, known for his prolific spells at Liverpool and Bayern Munich before moving to the Saudi Pro League.
C. Jose Emmanuel Lallana
Jose Emmanuel Lallana is a Filipino web administrator known for helping manage and develop the Philippine country-code top-level domain, .ph.
D. Kevin De Bruyne
Kevin De Bruyne is a Belgian professional footballer widely regarded as one of the best midfielders of his generation, known for his exceptional vision, passing, and creativity for Manchester City and the Belgium national team.
E. Roberto Firmino
Roberto Firmino is a Brazilian forward known for his creative playmaking, work rate, and successful spell at Liverpool FC, where he formed a prolific attacking trio with Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mané.
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: N’Golo Kanté
Target entity description: N’Golo Kanté is a French professional footballer renowned as one of the world’s best defensive midfielders, celebrated for his tireless work rate, ball-winning ability, and key roles in Leicester City’s 2015–16 Premier League title and France’s 2018 World Cup victory.

A. Riyad Mahrez
Riyad Mahrez is an Algerian professional footballer, renowned as a skillful winger, who has starred for clubs like Leicester City and Manchester City and played a key role in multiple Premier League title wins.
B. Sadio Mané
Sadio Mané is a Senegalese professional footballer renowned as one of Africa’s top forwards, known for his prolific spells at Liverpool and Bayern Munich before moving to the Saudi Pro League.
C. Jose Emmanuel Lallana
Jose Emmanuel Lallana is a Filipino web administrator known for helping manage and develop the Philippine country-code top-level domain, .ph.
D. Kevin De Bruyne
Kevin De Bruyne is a Belgian professional footballer widely regarded as one of the best midfielders of his generation, known for his exceptional vision, passing, and creativity for Manchester City and the Belgium national team.
E. Roberto Firmino
Roberto Firmino is a Brazilian forward known for his creative playmaking, work rate, and successful spell at Liverpool FC, where he formed a prolific attacking trio with Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mané.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human ⓘ professional footballer ⓘ
citizenship	France ⓘ
countryOfBirth	France ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1991-03-29 ⓘ
ethnicOrigin	Malian descent ⓘ
familyName	N’Golo Kanté self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Kanté
footedness	right-footed ⓘ
fullName	N’Golo Kanté self-link ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
givenName	N’Golo ⓘ
height	168 cm ⓘ
individualAward	FWA Footballer of the Year 2016–17 ⓘ PFA Players' Player of the Year ⓘ surface form: PFA Players’ Player of the Year 2016–17 Premier League Player of the Season ⓘ surface form: Premier League Player of the Season 2016–17 UEFA Champions League Midfielder of the Season ⓘ surface form: UEFA Champions League Midfielder of the Season 2020–21
knownFor	ball-winning ability ⓘ tactical intelligence ⓘ tireless work rate ⓘ
league	Premier League ⓘ
leagueDebutClub	Boulogne ⓘ
nationalTeam	France national football team ⓘ
nationalTeamDebut	2016 ⓘ
participatedIn	2018 FIFA World Cup ⓘ 2021 UEFA Champions League Final ⓘ UEFA Euro 2016 ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Paris ⓘ
playedFor	Al-Ittihad Club (Jeddah) ⓘ Boulogne ⓘ Caen ⓘ Chelsea ⓘ Leicester City F.C. ⓘ surface form: Leicester City
positionPlayed	central midfielder ⓘ defensive midfielder ⓘ
reputation	one of the best defensive midfielders in the world ⓘ
shirtNumber	7 ⓘ
sport	association football ⓘ
styleOfPlay	ball-winning midfielder ⓘ box-to-box midfielder ⓘ
won	2015–16 Premier League season ⓘ surface form: 2015–16 Premier League 2016–17 Premier League ⓘ FA Cup ⓘ surface form: 2017–18 FA Cup 2018 FIFA World Cup ⓘ 2021 UEFA Champions League Final ⓘ surface form: 2020–21 UEFA Champions League FIFA Club World Cup ⓘ surface form: 2021 FIFA Club World Cup UEFA Super Cup ⓘ surface form: 2021 UEFA Super Cup
youthClub	Suresnes ⓘ surface form: JS Suresnes

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Saudi Pro League → hasNotablePlayer → N’Golo Kanté ⓘ

Leicester City F.C. → notablePlayer → N’Golo Kanté ⓘ

N’Golo Kanté → fullName → N’Golo Kanté self-link ⓘ

N’Golo Kanté → familyName → N’Golo Kanté self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kanté

France vs Croatia → FranceStartingPlayer → N’Golo Kanté ⓘ

subject surface form: France vs Croatia (2018 FIFA World Cup Final)

this entity surface form: N'Golo Kanté

The Foxes → associatedPlayerDuring2015–16Title → N’Golo Kanté ⓘ

UEFA Champions League Midfielder of the Season → notableRecipient → N’Golo Kanté ⓘ

this entity surface form: N'Golo Kanté

Timeless → hasTrack → N’Golo Kanté ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kante

Timeless (album) → hasPart → N’Golo Kanté ⓘ

subject surface form: Timeless