Alastair Cook
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Alastair Cook is a former England cricket captain and prolific opening batsman who became his country’s all-time leading Test run-scorer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alastair Cook canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5737855 — 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: Alastair Cook Context triple: [Wisden Cricketer of the Year, hasNotableRecipient, Alastair Cook]
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A.
Ben Stokes
Ben Stokes is an English international cricketer renowned as one of the world’s leading all-rounders and a key figure in several of England’s most dramatic recent victories.
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B.
Jos Buttler
Jos Buttler is an English cricketer renowned as one of the world’s leading limited-overs wicketkeeper-batters, noted for his explosive batting and innovative stroke play.
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C.
Kevin Pietersen
Kevin Pietersen is a former England cricketer renowned as one of the most explosive and influential batsmen of his generation across all formats.
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D.
Cameron Bairstow
Cameron Bairstow is an Australian professional basketball player and former New Mexico Lobos standout who briefly played in the NBA with the Chicago Bulls.
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E.
James Anderson
James Anderson is an actor known for appearing in the film "Hellgate."
- 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: Alastair Cook Target entity description: Alastair Cook is a former England cricket captain and prolific opening batsman who became his country’s all-time leading Test run-scorer.
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A.
Ben Stokes
Ben Stokes is an English international cricketer renowned as one of the world’s leading all-rounders and a key figure in several of England’s most dramatic recent victories.
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B.
Jos Buttler
Jos Buttler is an English cricketer renowned as one of the world’s leading limited-overs wicketkeeper-batters, noted for his explosive batting and innovative stroke play.
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C.
Kevin Pietersen
Kevin Pietersen is a former England cricketer renowned as one of the most explosive and influential batsmen of his generation across all formats.
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D.
Cameron Bairstow
Cameron Bairstow is an Australian professional basketball player and former New Mexico Lobos standout who briefly played in the NBA with the Chicago Bulls.
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E.
James Anderson
James Anderson is an actor known for appearing in the film "Hellgate."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
England Test captain
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cricketer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| battingStyle | left-handed ⓘ |
| bowlingStyle | right-arm off break ⓘ |
| captainedTeam |
England One Day International cricket team
NERFINISHED
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England Test cricket team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
England
NERFINISHED
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | England ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1984-12-25 ⓘ |
| domesticTeam | Essex County Cricket Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| education | Bedford School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Cook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Alastair Nathan Cook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Alastair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highestODIScore | 137 ⓘ |
| highestTestScore | 294 ⓘ |
| honour | Commander of the Order of the British Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastTestDate | 2018-09-11 ⓘ |
| lastTestFor | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastTestOpponent | India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationalTeam | England cricket team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ODIBattingAverage | 36.40 ⓘ |
| ODICaptaincyEndYear | 2014 ⓘ |
| ODICaptaincyStartYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| ODICenturies | 5 ⓘ |
| ODIDebutDate | 2006-06-28 ⓘ |
| ODIDebutFor | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ODIDebutOpponent | Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ODIFifties | 19 ⓘ |
| ODIMatches | 92 ⓘ |
| ODIRuns | 3204 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Gloucester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postNominal | CBE NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| record | England’s all-time leading Test run-scorer ⓘ |
| retiredFromTestCricket | 2018 ⓘ |
| role | opening batsman ⓘ |
| sport | cricket ⓘ |
| TestBattingAverage | 45.35 ⓘ |
| TestCaptaincyEndYear | 2017 ⓘ |
| TestCaptaincyStartYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| TestCenturies | 33 ⓘ |
| TestDebutDate | 2006-03-01 ⓘ |
| TestDebutFor | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| TestDebutOpponent | India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| TestFifties | 57 ⓘ |
| TestMatches | 161 ⓘ |
| TestRuns | 12472 ⓘ |
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: Alastair Cook Description of subject: Alastair Cook is a former England cricket captain and prolific opening batsman who became his country’s all-time leading Test run-scorer.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.