Mahela Jayawardene
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Mahela Jayawardene is a former Sri Lankan cricketer renowned as one of the game's most elegant and prolific batsmen and a highly successful captain in international cricket.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mahela Jayawardene canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4573864 — 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: Mahela Jayawardene Context triple: [Sri Lanka national cricket team, notableCaptain, Mahela Jayawardene]
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A.
Sanath Jayasuriya
Sanath Jayasuriya is a former Sri Lankan cricketer renowned as one of the most destructive opening batsmen in limited-overs cricket and a key figure in Sri Lanka’s 1996 World Cup triumph.
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B.
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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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.
Ravindu Shah
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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E.
Dhananjaya
Dhananjaya is a celebrated epithet of the Pandava prince Arjuna, renowned in the Mahabharata for his unmatched archery skills and heroic valor.
- 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: Mahela Jayawardene Target entity description: Mahela Jayawardene is a former Sri Lankan cricketer renowned as one of the game's most elegant and prolific batsmen and a highly successful captain in international cricket.
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A.
Sanath Jayasuriya
Sanath Jayasuriya is a former Sri Lankan cricketer renowned as one of the most destructive opening batsmen in limited-overs cricket and a key figure in Sri Lanka’s 1996 World Cup triumph.
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B.
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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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.
Ravindu Shah
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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E.
Dhananjaya
Dhananjaya is a celebrated epithet of the Pandava prince Arjuna, renowned in the Mahabharata for his unmatched archery skills and heroic valor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (75)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
batsman
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cricket captain ⓘ cricket coach ⓘ cricketer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Wisden Cricketer of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| battingStyle | right-handed batsman ⓘ |
| bowlingStyle | right-arm medium ⓘ |
| captained | Sri Lanka national cricket team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Sansa Arya Jayawardene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coachingRole |
global head of performance for Mumbai Indians franchise group
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head coach of Mumbai Indians ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1977-05-27 ⓘ |
| education | Nalanda College Colombo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Jayawardene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldingPosition | slip fielder ⓘ |
| fullName | Denagamage Praboth Mahela de Silva Jayawardene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Mahela NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction | ICC Cricket Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInductionYear | 2021 ⓘ |
| highestTestScore | 374 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
elegant batting style
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tactical captaincy ⓘ |
| majorTournament |
2007 Cricket World Cup finalist as captain
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2011 Cricket World Cup finalist ⓘ |
| majorTournamentWin | 2014 ICC World Twenty20 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Sri Lankan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| odiCatches | 218 ⓘ |
| odiCenturies | 19 ⓘ |
| odiDebutDate | 1998-01-24 ⓘ |
| odiDebutFor | Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| odiMatchesPlayed | 448 ⓘ |
| odiRunsScored | 12650 ⓘ |
| partnershipRecord | world record Test partnership for any wicket with Kumar Sangakkara ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Colombo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedForTeam |
Adelaide Strikers
NERFINISHED
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Central Stags NERFINISHED ⓘ Delhi Daredevils NERFINISHED ⓘ Derbyshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Jamaica Tallawahs NERFINISHED ⓘ Khulna Royal Bengals NERFINISHED ⓘ Kings XI Punjab NERFINISHED ⓘ Kochi Tuskers Kerala NERFINISHED ⓘ Mumbai Indians NERFINISHED ⓘ Sinhalese Sports Club NERFINISHED ⓘ Somerset NERFINISHED ⓘ Sri Lanka national cricket team NERFINISHED ⓘ Sussex NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayamba Elevens NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayamba United NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayamba Wolves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordHeld | highest individual Test score by a Sri Lankan batsman ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| retiredFromFormat |
One Day International cricket
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Test cricket ⓘ Twenty20 International cricket NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | top-order batsman ⓘ |
| sport | cricket ⓘ |
| spouse | Christina Mallika Jayawardene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| t20iCenturies | 1 ⓘ |
| t20iDebutDate | 2006-06-15 ⓘ |
| t20iDebutFor | Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| t20iMatchesPlayed | 55 ⓘ |
| t20iRunsScored | 1493 ⓘ |
| teammate | Kumar Sangakkara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| testCatches | 205 ⓘ |
| testCenturies | 34 ⓘ |
| testDebutDate | 1997-08-02 ⓘ |
| testDebutFor | Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| testMatchesPlayed | 149 ⓘ |
| testRunsScored | 11814 ⓘ |
| worldRecordPartnershipRuns | 624 ⓘ |
| yearOfODIRetirement | 2015 ⓘ |
| yearOfTestRetirement | 2014 ⓘ |
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: Mahela Jayawardene Description of subject: Mahela Jayawardene is a former Sri Lankan cricketer renowned as one of the game's most elegant and prolific batsmen and a highly successful captain in international cricket.
Referenced by (2)
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