Joseph Ngwenya
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Joseph Ngwenya is a Zimbabwean former professional footballer best known as a forward in Major League Soccer, including scoring for the Houston Dynamo in the 2007 MLS Cup final.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joseph Ngwenya canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T355708 — 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: Joseph Ngwenya Context triple: [MLS Cup 2007, goalScorer, Joseph Ngwenya]
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A.
Joseph Gikatilla
Joseph Gikatilla was a prominent 13th-century Spanish Kabbalist and author whose works, such as "Ginnat Egoz" and "Sha'arei Orah," systematized and popularized mystical interpretations of the Hebrew Bible and divine names.
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B.
Olara Otunnu
Olara Otunnu is a Ugandan diplomat, lawyer, and human rights advocate known for his work on behalf of war-affected children and his leadership roles at the United Nations.
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C.
Eric Cradock
Eric Cradock was a Canadian sports promoter and businessman best known as a co-founder and early owner of the Toronto Huskies basketball team.
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D.
Precious Moloi-Motsepe
Precious Moloi-Motsepe is a South African physician and fashion entrepreneur best known for founding African Fashion International and her philanthropic work in education and women's empowerment.
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E.
Josiah Ng
Josiah Ng is a Malaysian track cyclist best known as a multiple Olympian and Commonwealth Games medalist in the keirin event.
- 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: Joseph Ngwenya Target entity description: Joseph Ngwenya is a Zimbabwean former professional footballer best known as a forward in Major League Soccer, including scoring for the Houston Dynamo in the 2007 MLS Cup final.
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A.
Joseph Gikatilla
Joseph Gikatilla was a prominent 13th-century Spanish Kabbalist and author whose works, such as "Ginnat Egoz" and "Sha'arei Orah," systematized and popularized mystical interpretations of the Hebrew Bible and divine names.
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B.
Olara Otunnu
Olara Otunnu is a Ugandan diplomat, lawyer, and human rights advocate known for his work on behalf of war-affected children and his leadership roles at the United Nations.
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C.
Eric Cradock
Eric Cradock was a Canadian sports promoter and businessman best known as a co-founder and early owner of the Toronto Huskies basketball team.
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D.
Precious Moloi-Motsepe
Precious Moloi-Motsepe is a South African physician and fashion entrepreneur best known for founding African Fashion International and her philanthropic work in education and women's empowerment.
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E.
Josiah Ng
Josiah Ng is a Malaysian track cyclist best known as a multiple Olympian and Commonwealth Games medalist in the keirin event.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
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forward ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Hermann Trophy finalist ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Bulawayo ⓘ |
| careerStatus | retired ⓘ |
| collegeTeam | Coastal Carolina Chanticleers men's soccer ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | Africa ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Zimbabwe ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| leagueParticipatedIn | Major League Soccer ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Zimbabwe national football team ⓘ |
| nationality | Zimbabwean ⓘ |
| notableFor | scoring for Houston Dynamo in the 2007 MLS Cup Final ⓘ |
| occupation | professional footballer ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Antalyaspor
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Columbus Crew ⓘ D.C. United ⓘ Houston Dynamo ⓘ Jagiellonia Białystok ⓘ Los Angeles Galaxy ⓘ Portland Timbers ⓘ Richmond Kickers ⓘ Virginia Beach Mariners ⓘ |
| playedIn |
Poland
ⓘ
Turkey ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| positionPlayed | forward ⓘ |
| scoredIn |
MLS Cup 2007
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surface form:
2007 MLS Cup Final
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| 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: Joseph Ngwenya Description of subject: Joseph Ngwenya is a Zimbabwean former professional footballer best known as a forward in Major League Soccer, including scoring for the Houston Dynamo in the 2007 MLS Cup final.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.