Aaron Mokoena
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Aaron Mokoena is a South African former professional footballer and defender who captained the national team, Bafana Bafana, including at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Aaron Mokoena canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5603702 — 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: Aaron Mokoena Context triple: [South Africa vs Mexico 2010 FIFA World Cup opening match, homeTeamCaptain, Aaron Mokoena]
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A.
Luke Malaba
Luke Malaba is a Zimbabwean jurist who has served as the Chief Justice of Zimbabwe.
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B.
Jonas Gwangwa
Jonas Gwangwa was a renowned South African jazz trombonist, composer, and anti-apartheid cultural figure who gained international recognition for his film and protest music.
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C.
Gavin Louw
Gavin Louw is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Louw.
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D.
Sandile Zungu
Sandile Zungu is a South African businessman and sports executive best known for owning and leading the Premier Soccer League club AmaZulu FC.
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E.
Jaco Louw
Jaco Louw is a notable individual bearing the Afrikaans surname Louw, recognized within contexts where the name has particular cultural or public significance.
- 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: Aaron Mokoena Target entity description: Aaron Mokoena is a South African former professional footballer and defender who captained the national team, Bafana Bafana, including at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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A.
Luke Malaba
Luke Malaba is a Zimbabwean jurist who has served as the Chief Justice of Zimbabwe.
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B.
Jonas Gwangwa
Jonas Gwangwa was a renowned South African jazz trombonist, composer, and anti-apartheid cultural figure who gained international recognition for his film and protest music.
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C.
Gavin Louw
Gavin Louw is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Louw.
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D.
Sandile Zungu
Sandile Zungu is a South African businessman and sports executive best known for owning and leading the Premier Soccer League club AmaZulu FC.
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E.
Jaco Louw
Jaco Louw is a notable individual bearing the Afrikaans surname Louw, recognized within contexts where the name has particular cultural or public significance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
South Africa international footballer
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association football player ⓘ defender ⓘ human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Aaron "Mbazo" Mokoena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| captaincyOf | Bafana Bafana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| captained | South Africa national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | South Africa ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1980-11-25 ⓘ |
| fullName | Teboho Aaron Mokoena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Aaron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | Black South African ⓘ |
| hasPlayedAbroadIn |
Belgium
NERFINISHED
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England NERFINISHED ⓘ Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leagueParticipatedIn |
Belgian Pro League
NERFINISHED
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Eredivisie NERFINISHED ⓘ Premier League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | South Africa national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | South African ⓘ |
| nickname |
Mbazo
NERFINISHED
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The Axe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being South Africa’s most-capped player of his era
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captaining Bafana Bafana ⓘ |
| occupation | professional footballer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
2002 FIFA World Cup
NERFINISHED
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2010 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ Africa Cup of Nations NERFINISHED ⓘ Olympic football tournament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Boipatong
NERFINISHED
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Gauteng NERFINISHED ⓘ South Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
AFC Ajax
NERFINISHED
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Ajax Cape Town F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Bidvest Wits F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Blackburn Rovers F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Germinal Beerschot NERFINISHED ⓘ KRC Genk NERFINISHED ⓘ Portsmouth F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ youth club in South Africa ⓘ |
| playedIn |
Africa Cup of Nations tournaments
NERFINISHED
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FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayedOnTeam |
central defender
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defensive midfielder ⓘ |
| representedNationalTeam | South Africa under-23 national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retiredFrom | professional football ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | captain of South Africa at the 2010 FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
| shirtNumber | 4 ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
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: Aaron Mokoena Description of subject: Aaron Mokoena is a South African former professional footballer and defender who captained the national team, Bafana Bafana, including at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.