Virginia Wade
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Virginia Wade is a former British professional tennis player best known for winning three Grand Slam singles titles, including Wimbledon in 1977.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Virginia Wade canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4673179 — 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: Virginia Wade Context triple: [Wade, hasNotableBearer, Virginia Wade]
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A.
Virginia Williams
Virginia Williams is an American woman best known as the wife of rapper Pusha T and for her low-key presence alongside his high-profile music career.
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B.
Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova is a legendary Czech-American tennis player widely regarded as one of the greatest in the sport’s history, known for her record number of Wimbledon singles titles and pioneering athletic longevity.
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C.
Evonne Goolagong-Cawley
Evonne Goolagong-Cawley is an Australian former world No. 1 tennis player and multiple Grand Slam champion, widely regarded as one of the sport’s greats and a trailblazer for Indigenous Australians.
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D.
Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King is an American former world No. 1 tennis player and pioneering advocate for gender equality and social justice in sports.
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E.
Pam Shriver
Pam Shriver is a former American professional tennis player best known for her Grand Slam doubles titles and long-standing partnership with Martina Navratilova.
- 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: Virginia Wade Target entity description: Virginia Wade is a former British professional tennis player best known for winning three Grand Slam singles titles, including Wimbledon in 1977.
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A.
Virginia Williams
Virginia Williams is an American woman best known as the wife of rapper Pusha T and for her low-key presence alongside his high-profile music career.
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B.
Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova is a legendary Czech-American tennis player widely regarded as one of the greatest in the sport’s history, known for her record number of Wimbledon singles titles and pioneering athletic longevity.
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C.
Evonne Goolagong-Cawley
Evonne Goolagong-Cawley is an Australian former world No. 1 tennis player and multiple Grand Slam champion, widely regarded as one of the sport’s greats and a trailblazer for Indigenous Australians.
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D.
Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King is an American former world No. 1 tennis player and pioneering advocate for gender equality and social justice in sports.
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E.
Pam Shriver
Pam Shriver is a former American professional tennis player best known for her Grand Slam doubles titles and long-standing partnership with Martina Navratilova.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British tennis player
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female tennis player ⓘ human ⓘ tennis player ⓘ |
| australianOpenSinglesTitleCount | 1 ⓘ |
| backhand | one-handed backhand ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1945-07-10 ⓘ |
| degree | mathematics and physics ⓘ |
| education | University of Sussex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Wade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fedCupTitles | 1 ⓘ |
| frenchOpenSinglesTitleCount | 0 ⓘ |
| fullName | Sarah Virginia Wade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName |
Sarah
NERFINISHED
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Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandSlamDoublesTitles | 4 ⓘ |
| grandSlamMixedDoublesTitles | 1 ⓘ |
| grandSlamSinglesTitles | 3 ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction | International Tennis Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInductionYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| handedness | right-handed ⓘ |
| highestSinglesRanking | World No. 2 ⓘ |
| honor | Officer of the Order of the British Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the last British woman to win Wimbledon singles in the 20th century
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winning Wimbledon women’s singles in 1977 ⓘ |
| occupation |
sports commentator
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tennis player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bournemouth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plays | right-handed (one-handed backhand) ⓘ |
| representedTeam | Great Britain Fed Cup team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| retired | 1986 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sport | tennis ⓘ |
| turnedPro | 1968 ⓘ |
| usOpenSinglesTitleCount | 1 ⓘ |
| wimbledonSinglesTitleCount | 1 ⓘ |
| wonTournament |
Australian Open – Women’s doubles 1973
NERFINISHED
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Australian Open – Women’s singles 1972 NERFINISHED ⓘ French Open – Mixed doubles 1973 NERFINISHED ⓘ French Open – Women’s doubles 1973 NERFINISHED ⓘ US Open – Women’s doubles 1973 NERFINISHED ⓘ US Open – Women’s doubles 1975 NERFINISHED ⓘ US Open – Women’s singles 1968 NERFINISHED ⓘ Wimbledon Championships – Women’s singles 1977 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfHighestSinglesRanking | 1975 ⓘ |
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: Virginia Wade Description of subject: Virginia Wade is a former British professional tennis player best known for winning three Grand Slam singles titles, including Wimbledon in 1977.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.