Golden Ball 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship
E552949
The Golden Ball 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship is the award given to the best player of the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship tournament, famously won by Croatian midfielder Robert Prosinečki.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Golden Ball 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5902376 — 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: Golden Ball 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship Context triple: [Robert Prosinečki, individualHonours, Golden Ball 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship]
-
A.
1983 FIFA World Youth Championship
The 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship was the fourth edition of FIFA’s global under-20 football tournament, bringing together youth national teams from around the world to compete for the junior world title.
-
B.
FIFA World Cup Golden Ball 1986
The FIFA World Cup Golden Ball 1986 is the award given to the best overall player of the 1986 FIFA World Cup tournament.
-
C.
The World Youth Cup
The World Youth Cup is the popular nickname for the Gothia Cup, one of the largest and most prestigious international youth football tournaments in the world.
-
D.
Kopa Trophy
The Kopa Trophy is an annual football award presented by France Football to the world's best male player under the age of 21.
-
E.
FIFA World Cup Golden Ball 1966
The FIFA World Cup Golden Ball 1966 is the award given to the best player of the 1966 World Cup tournament in England.
- 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: Golden Ball 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship Target entity description: The Golden Ball 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship is the award given to the best player of the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship tournament, famously won by Croatian midfielder Robert Prosinečki.
-
A.
1983 FIFA World Youth Championship
The 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship was the fourth edition of FIFA’s global under-20 football tournament, bringing together youth national teams from around the world to compete for the junior world title.
-
B.
FIFA World Cup Golden Ball 1986
The FIFA World Cup Golden Ball 1986 is the award given to the best overall player of the 1986 FIFA World Cup tournament.
-
C.
The World Youth Cup
The World Youth Cup is the popular nickname for the Gothia Cup, one of the largest and most prestigious international youth football tournaments in the world.
-
D.
Kopa Trophy
The Kopa Trophy is an annual football award presented by France Football to the world's best male player under the age of 21.
-
E.
FIFA World Cup Golden Ball 1966
The FIFA World Cup Golden Ball 1966 is the award given to the best player of the 1966 World Cup tournament in England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
FIFA youth tournament award
ⓘ
football award ⓘ |
| ageCategory | youth ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Golden Ball (best player) – 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardedFor | best player of the tournament ⓘ |
| competition | 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| confederationScope | global ⓘ |
| countryOfTournament | Chile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfTournamentEnd | 1987-10-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfTournamentStart | 1987-10-10 ⓘ |
| followedBy | Golden Ball 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Golden Ball 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genderCategory | men's tournament ⓘ |
| inception | 1987 ⓘ |
| organizer | FIFA ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | FIFA World Youth Championship Golden Ball awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedAward | Golden Shoe 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| selectionBasis |
influence on matches
ⓘ
overall performance during the tournament ⓘ technical skill ⓘ |
| selectionBody | FIFA technical committee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| tournamentLevel | under-20 ⓘ |
| tournamentOfficialName | FIFA World Youth Championship Chile 1987 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| winner | Robert Prosinečki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| winnerLaterNationality | Croatia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| winnerNationality | Yugoslavia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| winnerPosition | midfielder ⓘ |
| year | 1987 ⓘ |
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: Golden Ball 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship Description of subject: The Golden Ball 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship is the award given to the best player of the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship tournament, famously won by Croatian midfielder Robert Prosinečki.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.