AZ Alkmaar
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AZ Alkmaar is a Dutch professional football club based in Alkmaar, known for competing in the Eredivisie and developing talented players for top European leagues.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| AZ Alkmaar canonical | 6 |
| AZ Alkmaar (assistant coach) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5448035 — 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: AZ Alkmaar Context triple: [Jozy Altidore, memberOfSportsTeam, AZ Alkmaar]
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A.
SC Heerenveen
SC Heerenveen is a Dutch professional football club based in Heerenveen, known for competing in the Eredivisie and developing young talent.
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B.
PSV Eindhoven
PSV Eindhoven is a major Dutch professional football club based in Eindhoven, renowned as one of the Netherlands' "big three" teams and a regular competitor in European competitions.
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C.
AFC Ajax
AFC Ajax is a renowned Dutch football club from Amsterdam, famous for its successful history, influential youth academy, and pioneering attacking style of play.
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D.
FC Eindhoven
FC Eindhoven is a Dutch professional football club from Eindhoven that competes in the country’s league system and shares a historic city rivalry with PSV Eindhoven.
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E.
Feyenoord
Feyenoord is a major professional football club from Rotterdam, Netherlands, known for its passionate fanbase, rich history, and success in domestic and European competitions.
- 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: AZ Alkmaar Target entity description: AZ Alkmaar is a Dutch professional football club based in Alkmaar, known for competing in the Eredivisie and developing talented players for top European leagues.
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A.
SC Heerenveen
SC Heerenveen is a Dutch professional football club based in Heerenveen, known for competing in the Eredivisie and developing young talent.
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B.
PSV Eindhoven
PSV Eindhoven is a major Dutch professional football club based in Eindhoven, renowned as one of the Netherlands' "big three" teams and a regular competitor in European competitions.
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C.
AFC Ajax
AFC Ajax is a renowned Dutch football club from Amsterdam, famous for its successful history, influential youth academy, and pioneering attacking style of play.
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D.
FC Eindhoven
FC Eindhoven is a Dutch professional football club from Eindhoven that competes in the country’s league system and shares a historic city rivalry with PSV Eindhoven.
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E.
Feyenoord
Feyenoord is a major professional football club from Rotterdam, Netherlands, known for its passionate fanbase, rich history, and success in domestic and European competitions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
football club
ⓘ
professional sports team ⓘ |
| awayKitColor | varies by season ⓘ |
| basedIn | Alkmaar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chairman | Robert Eenhoorn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competition |
KNVB Cup
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
UEFA competitions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| countryAssociation | Royal Dutch Football Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | 1967 ⓘ |
| fullName | Alkmaar Zaanstreek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genderOfTeam | men ⓘ |
| hasSection | women's team ⓘ |
| hasWon |
Eredivisie title
ⓘ
Johan Cruyff Shield NERFINISHED ⓘ KNVB Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeKitColor |
red
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| homeStadium | AFAS Stadion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
competing in Eredivisie
ⓘ
developing young talent ⓘ strong youth academy ⓘ |
| league | Eredivisie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Dutch ⓘ |
| nickname | AZ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFormerPlayer |
Guus Til
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jan Kromkamp NERFINISHED ⓘ Mounir El Hamdaoui NERFINISHED ⓘ Mousa Dembélé NERFINISHED ⓘ Myron Boadu NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruud Gullit NERFINISHED ⓘ Teun Koopmeiners NERFINISHED ⓘ Vincent Janssen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownerType | privately owned ⓘ |
| participatesIn |
UEFA Europa Conference League
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
UEFA Europa League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsIn | top tier of Dutch football ⓘ |
| region | North Holland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rival |
Ajax
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Feyenoord NERFINISHED ⓘ PSV Eindhoven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortName | AZ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| stadiumCapacity | 17000+ ⓘ |
| trainingGround | Sportcomplex 't Lood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://www.az.nl ⓘ |
| youthAcademy | AZ Alkmaar Academy 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: AZ Alkmaar Description of subject: AZ Alkmaar is a Dutch professional football club based in Alkmaar, known for competing in the Eredivisie and developing talented players for top European leagues.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
AZ Alkmaar (assistant coach)