Winfried Schäfer
E434757
Winfried Schäfer is a German football manager best known for his successful stints coaching national teams, including leading Cameroon to victory in the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Winfried Schäfer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3054038 — 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: Winfried Schäfer Context triple: [Cameroon national football team, famousCoach, Winfried Schäfer]
-
A.
Karl-Heinz Schreiber
Karl-Heinz Schreiber is a German-Canadian lobbyist and businessman notorious for his central role in major international arms and political bribery scandals, including those involving Lockheed.
-
B.
Jürgen Büscher
Jürgen Büscher is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1993 German war film "Stalingrad."
-
C.
Uwe Krupp
Uwe Krupp is a former German professional ice hockey defenseman and coach, best known for his NHL career and for scoring the Stanley Cup–winning goal for the Colorado Avalanche in 1996.
-
D.
Gerhard Wagner
Gerhard Wagner is a scientist known as a prominent student and collaborator of Nobel Prize–winning chemist Kurt Wüthrich, contributing to the field of biomolecular NMR spectroscopy.
-
E.
Horst Köhler
Horst Köhler is a German politician and economist who served as President of Germany from 2004 to 2010.
- 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: Winfried Schäfer Target entity description: Winfried Schäfer is a German football manager best known for his successful stints coaching national teams, including leading Cameroon to victory in the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations.
-
A.
Karl-Heinz Schreiber
Karl-Heinz Schreiber is a German-Canadian lobbyist and businessman notorious for his central role in major international arms and political bribery scandals, including those involving Lockheed.
-
B.
Jürgen Büscher
Jürgen Büscher is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1993 German war film "Stalingrad."
-
C.
Uwe Krupp
Uwe Krupp is a former German professional ice hockey defenseman and coach, best known for his NHL career and for scoring the Stanley Cup–winning goal for the Colorado Avalanche in 1996.
-
D.
Gerhard Wagner
Gerhard Wagner is a scientist known as a prominent student and collaborator of Nobel Prize–winning chemist Kurt Wüthrich, contributing to the field of biomolecular NMR spectroscopy.
-
E.
Horst Köhler
Horst Köhler is a German politician and economist who served as President of Germany from 2004 to 2010.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
ⓘ
football manager ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Africa Cup of Nations winning coach 2002 ⓘ |
| coachOf |
1. FC Köln
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Al-Ahli Dubai F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Baku FK NERFINISHED ⓘ Cameroon national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ Esteghlal F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Jamaica national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ Karlsruher SC NERFINISHED ⓘ Rwanda national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ Tennis Borussia Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ Thailand national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ United Arab Emirates national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ VfB Stuttgart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfCoachingActivity |
Azerbaijan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cameroon NERFINISHED ⓘ Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ Jamaica NERFINISHED ⓘ Rwanda NERFINISHED ⓘ Thailand NERFINISHED ⓘ United Arab Emirates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1950-01-10 ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned | German ⓘ |
| leagueParticipatedInAsPlayer | Bundesliga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Borussia Mönchengladbach
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Karlsruher SC NERFINISHED ⓘ Kickers Offenbach NERFINISHED ⓘ SV Darmstadt 98 NERFINISHED ⓘ TuS Mayen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
coached Cameroon at the 2002 FIFA World Cup
ⓘ
led Cameroon national football team to 2002 Africa Cup of Nations title ⓘ |
| notableFor | managing multiple national football teams on different continents ⓘ |
| notableWork | winning the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations with Cameroon ⓘ |
| occupation |
association football player
ⓘ
football manager ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
2002 Africa Cup of Nations
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
2002 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kronberg im Taunus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayedOnTeamSport | midfielder ⓘ |
| residence | Germany ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
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: Winfried Schäfer Description of subject: Winfried Schäfer is a German football manager best known for his successful stints coaching national teams, including leading Cameroon to victory in the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.