Steve Waugh
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Steve Waugh is a former Australian cricketer and highly successful Test captain renowned for his gritty batting, mental toughness, and leadership during one of Australia's most dominant eras in world cricket.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Steve Waugh canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4573662 — 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: Steve Waugh Context triple: [Australia national cricket team, notableCaptain, Steve Waugh]
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A.
Scott Waugh
Scott Waugh is an American film director and former stunt performer best known for helming high-octane action movies such as Act of Valor and Need for Speed.
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B.
Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith is a member of the Smith family, known as the son of Benjamin A. Smith II.
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C.
Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith was a pioneering American public health reformer and physician who played a key role in advancing modern public health systems in the United States.
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D.
Martin McGrath
Martin McGrath is a cinematographer best known for his work on the 1991 Australian film "Proof."
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E.
Warne
Warne is a river in Germany that serves as a tributary of the Oker.
- 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: Steve Waugh Target entity description: Steve Waugh is a former Australian cricketer and highly successful Test captain renowned for his gritty batting, mental toughness, and leadership during one of Australia's most dominant eras in world cricket.
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A.
Scott Waugh
Scott Waugh is an American film director and former stunt performer best known for helming high-octane action movies such as Act of Valor and Need for Speed.
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B.
Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith is a member of the Smith family, known as the son of Benjamin A. Smith II.
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C.
Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith was a pioneering American public health reformer and physician who played a key role in advancing modern public health systems in the United States.
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D.
Martin McGrath
Martin McGrath is a cinematographer best known for his work on the 1991 Australian film "Proof."
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E.
Warne
Warne is a river in Germany that serves as a tributary of the Oker.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (77)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Test cricketer
ⓘ
author ⓘ cricket captain ⓘ cricketer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| battingPosition |
number five
ⓘ
number four ⓘ |
| battingStyle | right-handed batsman ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1965-06-02 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Canterbury, New South Wales, Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bowlingStyle | right-arm medium ⓘ |
| captainedTeam |
Australia One Day International team
ⓘ
Australia Test cricket team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| captainedWorldCupWinningTeam | 1999 Cricket World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| era | 1990s Australian cricket dominance ⓘ |
| familyName | Waugh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| famousFor |
gritty batting
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leadership ⓘ leading one of Australia's most dominant Test eras ⓘ mental toughness ⓘ |
| founded | Steve Waugh Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Stephen Rodger Waugh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Stephen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction | ICC Cricket Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInductionYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| highestOdiScore | 120* ⓘ |
| highestTestScore | 200 ⓘ |
| honour |
Australian of the Year
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Member of the Order of Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honourYear | 2004 ⓘ |
| internationalDebutAgainst | New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| internationalDebutFormat | One Day International NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| internationalDebutYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| nationality | Australian ⓘ |
| nickname |
Steve Waugh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tugga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | philanthropist ⓘ |
| odiBattingAverage | 32.90 ⓘ |
| odiCenturies | 3 ⓘ |
| odiDebutAgainst | New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| odiDebutFormat | One Day International ⓘ |
| odiDebutYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| odiHalfCenturies | 45 ⓘ |
| odiMatchesPlayed | 325 ⓘ |
| odiRunsScored | 7569 ⓘ |
| odiWickets | 195 ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Australia national cricket team
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kent County Cricket Club NERFINISHED ⓘ New South Wales cricket team NERFINISHED ⓘ Somerset County Cricket Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postRetirementActivity |
author of cricket books
ⓘ
cricket commentator ⓘ |
| retirementFromTestCricketYear | 2004 ⓘ |
| role |
all-rounder
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captain ⓘ middle-order batsman ⓘ |
| sibling | Mark Waugh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | cricket ⓘ |
| testBattingAverage | 51.06 ⓘ |
| testCaptaincyEndYear | 2004 ⓘ |
| testCaptaincyStartYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| testCenturies | 32 ⓘ |
| testDebutAgainst | India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| testDebutFormat | Test cricket ⓘ |
| testDebutYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| testHalfCenturies | 50 ⓘ |
| testLossesAsCaptain | 9 ⓘ |
| testMatchesAsCaptain | 57 ⓘ |
| testMatchesPlayed | 168 ⓘ |
| testRunsScored | 10927 ⓘ |
| testWickets | 92 ⓘ |
| testWinsAsCaptain | 41 ⓘ |
| twinBrother | Mark Waugh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worldCupWinner |
1987 Cricket World Cup
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
1999 Cricket World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Steve Waugh Description of subject: Steve Waugh is a former Australian cricketer and highly successful Test captain renowned for his gritty batting, mental toughness, and leadership during one of Australia's most dominant eras in world cricket.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.