Paul Pogba
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Paul Pogba is a French professional footballer, renowned as a dynamic, technically gifted midfielder who has starred for clubs like Juventus and Manchester United as well as the French national team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Pogba canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5772131 — 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: Paul Pogba Context triple: [2014 FIFA World Cup, bestYoungPlayer, Paul Pogba]
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A.
Blaise Matuidi
Blaise Matuidi is a French former professional footballer and World Cup winner known for his dynamic, hard-working midfield play for clubs such as Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus as well as the French national team.
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B.
Michael Carrick
Michael Carrick is a former English midfielder best known for his successful career at Manchester United and subsequent work as a football coach and manager.
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C.
John Obi Mikel
John Obi Mikel is a Nigerian former professional footballer best known as a defensive midfielder who starred for Chelsea FC and captained Nigeria’s national team to multiple major tournaments, including winning the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.
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D.
Casemiro
Casemiro is a Brazilian defensive midfielder renowned for his ball-winning ability, tactical intelligence, and key role in Real Madrid’s multiple Champions League triumphs.
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E.
Romelu Lukaku
Romelu Lukaku is a Belgian professional footballer known as one of Europe’s most prolific strikers, having starred for top clubs in England, Italy, and on the Belgian national team.
- 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: Paul Pogba Target entity description: Paul Pogba is a French professional footballer, renowned as a dynamic, technically gifted midfielder who has starred for clubs like Juventus and Manchester United as well as the French national team.
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A.
Blaise Matuidi
Blaise Matuidi is a French former professional footballer and World Cup winner known for his dynamic, hard-working midfield play for clubs such as Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus as well as the French national team.
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B.
Michael Carrick
Michael Carrick is a former English midfielder best known for his successful career at Manchester United and subsequent work as a football coach and manager.
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C.
John Obi Mikel
John Obi Mikel is a Nigerian former professional footballer best known as a defensive midfielder who starred for Chelsea FC and captained Nigeria’s national team to multiple major tournaments, including winning the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.
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D.
Casemiro
Casemiro is a Brazilian defensive midfielder renowned for his ball-winning ability, tactical intelligence, and key role in Real Madrid’s multiple Champions League triumphs.
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E.
Romelu Lukaku
Romelu Lukaku is a Belgian professional footballer known as one of Europe’s most prolific strikers, having starred for top clubs in England, Italy, and on the Belgian national team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football midfielder
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human ⓘ professional footballer ⓘ |
| clubHonour |
Coppa Italia with Juventus
NERFINISHED
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EFL Cup with Manchester United NERFINISHED ⓘ Serie A title with Juventus NERFINISHED ⓘ Supercoppa Italiana with Juventus NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Europa League with Manchester United NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1993-03-15 ⓘ |
| familyName | Pogba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Paul Labile Pogba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| hasAgent | Mino Raiola (former) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnicOrigin | Guinean ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Florentin Pogba
NERFINISHED
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Mathias Pogba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height | 1.91 m ⓘ |
| individualAward |
Bravo Award 2014
NERFINISHED
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FIFA World Cup Best Young Player Award 2014 NERFINISHED ⓘ Golden Ball of the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ Golden Boy 2013 NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Europa League Squad of the Season 2016–17 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isTwinOf | Florentin Pogba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| nationalTeam |
France U16
NERFINISHED
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France U17 NERFINISHED ⓘ France U18 NERFINISHED ⓘ France U19 NERFINISHED ⓘ France U20 NERFINISHED ⓘ France national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lagny-sur-Marne, France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsForNationalTeam | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsSport | football ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
attacking midfielder
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central midfielder ⓘ defensive midfielder ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| scoredInFinalOf | 2018 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seniorClub |
Juventus F.C.
NERFINISHED
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Le Havre B NERFINISHED ⓘ Manchester United F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shirtNumber | 6 ⓘ |
| styleOfPlay |
box-to-box midfielder
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powerful runner with the ball ⓘ technically gifted midfielder ⓘ |
| transfer | record-breaking transfer to Manchester United in 2016 ⓘ |
| transferFee | approximately €105 million (2016 to Manchester United) ⓘ |
| wonCompetition |
2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup
NERFINISHED
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2018 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| youthClub |
Le Havre AC
NERFINISHED
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Manchester United Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ US Roissy-en-Brie NERFINISHED ⓘ US Torcy 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: Paul Pogba Description of subject: Paul Pogba is a French professional footballer, renowned as a dynamic, technically gifted midfielder who has starred for clubs like Juventus and Manchester United as well as the French national team.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
France vs Croatia (2018 FIFA World Cup Final)
subject surface form:
France vs Croatia (2018 FIFA World Cup Final)