Zaheer Khan
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Zaheer Khan is a former Indian fast bowler renowned for his swing, accuracy, and pivotal role in India's 2011 Cricket World Cup triumph.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Zaheer Khan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5737618 — 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: Zaheer Khan Context triple: [Mumbai cricket team, hasProducedPlayer, Zaheer Khan]
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A.
Imran Tahir
Imran Tahir is a South African cricketer of Pakistani origin, renowned as a prolific leg-spin bowler in international limited-overs cricket.
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B.
Wasim Jaffer
Wasim Jaffer is a former Indian cricketer renowned as one of the most prolific run-scorers in Indian domestic cricket and a Test opener for India.
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C.
Farokh Engineer
Farokh Engineer is a former Indian cricketer and flamboyant wicket-keeper batsman who played for India in the 1960s and 1970s and later became a popular commentator.
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D.
Sarfaraz Khan
Sarfaraz Khan was an 18th-century Nawab of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa in the Mughal era, known for his brief and turbulent rule that ended with his defeat by Alivardi Khan.
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E.
Vinod Kambli
Vinod Kambli is a former Indian cricketer known for his prolific batting in the early 1990s, including two double centuries in Test cricket.
- 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: Zaheer Khan Target entity description: Zaheer Khan is a former Indian fast bowler renowned for his swing, accuracy, and pivotal role in India's 2011 Cricket World Cup triumph.
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A.
Imran Tahir
Imran Tahir is a South African cricketer of Pakistani origin, renowned as a prolific leg-spin bowler in international limited-overs cricket.
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B.
Wasim Jaffer
Wasim Jaffer is a former Indian cricketer renowned as one of the most prolific run-scorers in Indian domestic cricket and a Test opener for India.
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C.
Farokh Engineer
Farokh Engineer is a former Indian cricketer and flamboyant wicket-keeper batsman who played for India in the 1960s and 1970s and later became a popular commentator.
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D.
Sarfaraz Khan
Sarfaraz Khan was an 18th-century Nawab of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa in the Mughal era, known for his brief and turbulent rule that ended with his defeat by Alivardi Khan.
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E.
Sikandar Raza
Sikandar Raza is a Zimbabwean international cricketer known as a key all-rounder and match-winner in limited-overs formats.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cricketer
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| achievement | joint-highest wicket-taker in 2011 Cricket World Cup ⓘ |
| announcedInternationalRetirement | 2015 ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Arjuna Award
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wisden Cricketer of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| battingStyle | left-handed bat ⓘ |
| bowlingStyle | left-arm fast-medium ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | India ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1978-10-07 ⓘ |
| education |
KJ Somaiya Secondary School, Mumbai
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Marathi Primary School, Shrirampur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Khan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formatDebut |
One Day International cricket
ⓘ
Test cricket ⓘ Twenty20 International cricket NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Zaheer Khan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Zaheer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Sagarika Ghatge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
accuracy
ⓘ
new-ball spells ⓘ reverse swing ⓘ swing bowling ⓘ |
| league | Indian Premier League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorTournament | 2011 Cricket World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marriageDate | 2017-11-23 ⓘ |
| nationality | Indian ⓘ |
| occupation |
cricket analyst
ⓘ
cricket commentator ⓘ |
| odiCapNumber | 127 (India) ⓘ |
| odiDebutOpponent | Kenya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Shrirampur, Maharashtra, India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Baroda cricket team
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Delhi Daredevils NERFINISHED ⓘ Mumbai Indians NERFINISHED ⓘ Mumbai cricket team NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Challengers Bangalore NERFINISHED ⓘ Worcestershire County Cricket Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| retiredFromFormat |
One Day International cricket
ⓘ
Test cricket ⓘ Twenty20 International cricket ⓘ |
| role | bowler ⓘ |
| sport | cricket ⓘ |
| t20iCapNumber | 1 (India) ⓘ |
| t20iDebutOpponent | South Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| team | India national cricket team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| testCapNumber | 244 (India) ⓘ |
| testDebutOpponent | Bangladesh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wicketsIn2011WorldCup | 21 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: Zaheer Khan Description of subject: Zaheer Khan is a former Indian fast bowler renowned for his swing, accuracy, and pivotal role in India's 2011 Cricket World Cup triumph.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.