Kevin Keegan
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Kevin Keegan is a former England international footballer and manager, renowned as a star forward in the 1970s and later a charismatic, attack-minded coach, particularly associated with Newcastle United and Liverpool.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kevin Keegan canonical | 5 |
| Joseph Kevin Keegan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1387600 — 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)
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Target entity: Kevin Keegan Context triple: [Newcastle United, historicPlayer, Kevin Keegan]
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A.
John Barnes
John Barnes is a former professional footballer best known as a star winger for Liverpool and the England national team during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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B.
Brian Clough
Brian Clough was a charismatic and outspoken English football manager renowned for leading unfashionable clubs like Derby County and Nottingham Forest to unprecedented domestic and European success.
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C.
Kenny Dalglish
Kenny Dalglish is a legendary Scottish footballer and manager, renowned for his prolific playing career at Celtic and Liverpool and his highly successful spells managing Liverpool and the Scottish national team.
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D.
Tony Adams
Tony Adams is a legendary former English central defender who captained Arsenal and the England national team, renowned for his leadership, longevity, and success during Arsenal’s dominant years in the late 20th century.
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E.
Frank Yallop
Frank Yallop is a former Canadian international defender and successful soccer coach best known for leading the San Jose Earthquakes to multiple MLS Cup titles.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Kevin Keegan Target entity description: Kevin Keegan is a former England international footballer and manager, renowned as a star forward in the 1970s and later a charismatic, attack-minded coach, particularly associated with Newcastle United and Liverpool.
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A.
John Barnes
John Barnes is a former professional footballer best known as a star winger for Liverpool and the England national team during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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B.
Brian Clough
Brian Clough was a charismatic and outspoken English football manager renowned for leading unfashionable clubs like Derby County and Nottingham Forest to unprecedented domestic and European success.
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C.
Kenny Dalglish
Kenny Dalglish is a legendary Scottish footballer and manager, renowned for his prolific playing career at Celtic and Liverpool and his highly successful spells managing Liverpool and the Scottish national team.
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D.
Tony Adams
Tony Adams is a legendary former English central defender who captained Arsenal and the England national team, renowned for his leadership, longevity, and success during Arsenal’s dominant years in the late 20th century.
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E.
Frank Yallop
Frank Yallop is a former Canadian international defender and successful soccer coach best known for leading the San Jose Earthquakes to multiple MLS Cup titles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
ⓘ
football manager ⓘ human ⓘ |
| BallonDAward |
1978
ⓘ
1979 ⓘ |
| caps | 63 for England ⓘ |
| citizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | England ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951-02-14 ⓘ |
| familyName | Keegan ⓘ |
| fullName |
Kevin Keegan
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Joseph Kevin Keegan
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Kevin ⓘ |
| goals | 21 for England ⓘ |
| joinedClub |
Hamburger SV in 1977
ⓘ
Liverpool F.C. in 1971 ⓘ Newcastle United F.C. in 1982 ⓘ Southampton F.C. in 1980 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
charismatic management style
ⓘ
“Entertainers” era at Newcastle United ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| leftClub |
Hamburger SV in 1980
ⓘ
Liverpool F.C. in 1977 ⓘ |
| managed |
England national football team
ⓘ
Fulham F.C. ⓘ Manchester City F.C. ⓘ Newcastle United ⓘ
surface form:
Newcastle United F.C.
Newcastle United ⓘ
surface form:
Newcastle United F.C. (second spell)
|
| nationalTeam | England national football team ⓘ |
| notableEvent | narrowly missed winning 1995–96 Premier League title with Newcastle United ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Armthorpe ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Hamburger SV
ⓘ
Liverpool F.C. ⓘ Newcastle United ⓘ
surface form:
Newcastle United F.C.
Scunthorpe United F.C. ⓘ Southampton F.C. ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
forward
ⓘ
second striker ⓘ |
| retiredAsPlayer | 1984 ⓘ |
| shirtNumber | 7 at Liverpool F.C. ⓘ |
| styleOfPlay | attacking ⓘ |
| wonCompetition |
Bundesliga 1978–79 with Hamburger SV
ⓘ
DFB-Pokal ⓘ
surface form:
DFB-Pokal 1978–79 with Hamburger SV
European Cup 1976–77 with Liverpool F.C. ⓘ First Division 1972–73 ⓘ
surface form:
Football League First Division 1972–73 with Liverpool F.C.
Football League First Division ⓘ
surface form:
Football League First Division 1975–76 with Liverpool F.C.
Football League First Division ⓘ
surface form:
Football League First Division 1976–77 with Liverpool F.C.
UEFA Cup 1972–73 ⓘ
surface form:
UEFA Cup 1972–73 with Liverpool F.C.
UEFA Cup 1975–76 with Liverpool F.C. ⓘ |
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: Kevin Keegan Description of subject: Kevin Keegan is a former England international footballer and manager, renowned as a star forward in the 1970s and later a charismatic, attack-minded coach, particularly associated with Newcastle United and Liverpool.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Joseph Kevin Keegan