Nigel Pearson
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Nigel Pearson is an English football manager and former defender best known for leading Leicester City through promotion to the Premier League and laying the foundations for their subsequent title-winning success.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nigel Pearson canonical | 3 |
| Nigel Graham Pearson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1970545 — 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: Nigel Pearson Context triple: [Leicester City F.C., notableManager, Nigel Pearson]
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A.
Steve Coppell
Steve Coppell is an English former footballer and manager best known for his successful spells in charge of clubs such as Reading and Crystal Palace.
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B.
Howard Wilkinson
Howard Wilkinson is an English football manager best known for leading Leeds United to the 1991–92 First Division title, the last before the formation of the Premier League.
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C.
Phil Neville
Phil Neville is a former English professional footballer and coach best known for his long spells at Manchester United and Everton, as well as managing the England women's national team and Inter Miami CF.
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D.
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.
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E.
Graham Taylor
Graham Taylor was an English football manager best known for transforming Watford F.C. from the lower divisions into a top-flight club and later managing the England national team.
- 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: Nigel Pearson Target entity description: Nigel Pearson is an English football manager and former defender best known for leading Leicester City through promotion to the Premier League and laying the foundations for their subsequent title-winning success.
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A.
Steve Coppell
Steve Coppell is an English former footballer and manager best known for his successful spells in charge of clubs such as Reading and Crystal Palace.
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B.
Howard Wilkinson
Howard Wilkinson is an English football manager best known for leading Leeds United to the 1991–92 First Division title, the last before the formation of the Premier League.
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C.
Phil Neville
Phil Neville is a former English professional footballer and coach best known for his long spells at Manchester United and Everton, as well as managing the England women's national team and Inter Miami CF.
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D.
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.
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E.
Graham Taylor
Graham Taylor was an English football manager best known for transforming Watford F.C. from the lower divisions into a top-flight club and later managing the England national team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Nigel Pearson Description of subject: Nigel Pearson is an English football manager and former defender best known for leading Leicester City through promotion to the Premier League and laying the foundations for their subsequent title-winning success.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nigel Graham Pearson