Ravindu Shah
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Ravindu Shah is a former Kenyan cricketer and opening batsman who was a key member of Kenya’s successful World Cup campaigns in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ravindu Shah canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4574013 — 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: Ravindu Shah Context triple: [Kenya national cricket team, notablePlayer, Ravindu Shah]
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A.
Arjuna Ranatunga
Arjuna Ranatunga is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and influential captain who famously led Sri Lanka to its first Cricket World Cup title in 1996.
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B.
Dhananjaya
Dhananjaya is a celebrated epithet of the Pandava prince Arjuna, renowned in the Mahabharata for his unmatched archery skills and heroic valor.
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C.
Chaminda Vaas
Chaminda Vaas is a former Sri Lankan left-arm fast-medium bowler renowned as one of the country’s greatest seamers and a leading wicket-taker in international cricket.
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D.
Aravinda de Silva
Aravinda de Silva is a former Sri Lankan cricketer renowned as one of the country’s greatest batsmen and a key architect of their 1996 Cricket World Cup triumph.
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E.
W. Dahanayake
W. Dahanayake was a Sri Lankan politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of Ceylon in the late 1950s.
- 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: Ravindu Shah Target entity description: Ravindu Shah is a former Kenyan cricketer and opening batsman who was a key member of Kenya’s successful World Cup campaigns in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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A.
Arjuna Ranatunga
Arjuna Ranatunga is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and influential captain who famously led Sri Lanka to its first Cricket World Cup title in 1996.
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B.
Dhananjaya
Dhananjaya is a celebrated epithet of the Pandava prince Arjuna, renowned in the Mahabharata for his unmatched archery skills and heroic valor.
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C.
Chaminda Vaas
Chaminda Vaas is a former Sri Lankan left-arm fast-medium bowler renowned as one of the country’s greatest seamers and a leading wicket-taker in international cricket.
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D.
Aravinda de Silva
Aravinda de Silva is a former Sri Lankan cricketer renowned as one of the country’s greatest batsmen and a key architect of their 1996 Cricket World Cup triumph.
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E.
W. Dahanayake
W. Dahanayake was a Sri Lankan politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of Ceylon in the late 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cricketer
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human ⓘ opening batsman ⓘ |
| battingPosition | top order ⓘ |
| battingStyle | right-handed batsman ⓘ |
| bowlingStyle | right-arm offbreak ⓘ |
| continentRepresented | Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Kenya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kenya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1972-08-28 ⓘ |
| ESPNcricinfoPlayerId | 24725 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| helpedTeamReach | semi-finals of 2003 Cricket World Cup ⓘ |
| lastODIFor | Kenya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationalTeam | Kenya national cricket team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | contributions to Kenya’s World Cup campaigns in late 1990s and early 2000s ⓘ |
| ODIDebutAgainst | India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ODIDebutFor | Kenya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ODIDebutYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Nairobi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFormat |
List A cricket
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One Day International cricket ⓘ first-class cricket ⓘ |
| playedInTournament |
1996 Cricket World Cup
NERFINISHED
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1999 Cricket World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ 2003 Cricket World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ 2007 Cricket World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | opening batsman ⓘ |
| sport | cricket ⓘ |
| status | former cricketer ⓘ |
| team | Kenya national cricket team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasKeyMemberOf |
Kenya cricket team at 1999 Cricket World Cup
NERFINISHED
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Kenya cricket team at 2003 Cricket World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Ravindu Shah Description of subject: Ravindu Shah is a former Kenyan cricketer and opening batsman who was a key member of Kenya’s successful World Cup campaigns in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.