Kapil Dev
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Kapil Dev is a legendary Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders in the history of the sport and the captain who led India to its first Cricket World Cup title in 1983.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kapil Dev canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5737911 — 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: Kapil Dev Context triple: [Playing It My Way, mentionsPerson, Kapil Dev]
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A.
Yuvraj Singh
Yuvraj Singh is a former Indian international cricketer renowned for his explosive middle-order batting, left-arm spin, and pivotal role in India's 2007 T20 and 2011 Cricket World Cup triumphs.
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B.
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.
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C.
Sunil Gavaskar
Sunil Gavaskar is a legendary Indian opening batsman widely regarded as one of the greatest cricketers of all time, renowned for his prolific Test run-scoring and record-breaking centuries.
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D.
Dilip Vengsarkar
Dilip Vengsarkar is a former Indian cricketer and elegant right-handed batsman who was one of the mainstays of India’s batting lineup in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Ravindra Jadeja
Ravindra Jadeja is an Indian international cricketer renowned as one of the world's leading all-rounders, known for his left-arm spin, dynamic batting, and exceptional fielding.
- 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: Kapil Dev Target entity description: Kapil Dev is a legendary Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders in the history of the sport and the captain who led India to its first Cricket World Cup title in 1983.
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A.
Yuvraj Singh
Yuvraj Singh is a former Indian international cricketer renowned for his explosive middle-order batting, left-arm spin, and pivotal role in India's 2007 T20 and 2011 Cricket World Cup triumphs.
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B.
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.
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C.
Sunil Gavaskar
Sunil Gavaskar is a legendary Indian opening batsman widely regarded as one of the greatest cricketers of all time, renowned for his prolific Test run-scoring and record-breaking centuries.
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D.
Dilip Vengsarkar
Dilip Vengsarkar is a former Indian cricketer and elegant right-handed batsman who was one of the mainstays of India’s batting lineup in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Ravindra Jadeja
Ravindra Jadeja is an Indian international cricketer renowned as one of the world's leading all-rounders, known for his left-arm spin, dynamic batting, and exceptional fielding.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cricketer
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Padma Bhushan
ⓘ
Padma Shri ⓘ Wisden Cricketer of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| battingPosition | lower middle-order ⓘ |
| battingStyle | right-handed batsman ⓘ |
| bowlingStyle | right-arm fast-medium ⓘ |
| captained | India national cricket team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Amiya Dev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coached | India national cricket team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | India ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-01-06 ⓘ |
| debutFormat |
One Day International cricket
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Test cricket ⓘ |
| domesticTeam | Haryana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Nikhanj NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Kapil Dev Nikhanj NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Kapil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honor | ICC Cricket Hall of Fame inductee ⓘ |
| knownFor |
aggressive batting
ⓘ
captaining India to 1983 World Cup win ⓘ fast bowling ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ |
| ledToTitle | 1983 Cricket World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Indian ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
cricket coach ⓘ cricket commentator ⓘ |
| odiDebutYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| odiMatchesPlayed | 225 ⓘ |
| odiRunsScored | 3783 ⓘ |
| odiWicketsTaken | 253 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chandigarh, India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
India national cricket team
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Zone cricket team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordHeld | most Test wickets at time of retirement ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| role | all-rounder ⓘ |
| sport | cricket ⓘ |
| spouse | Romi Bhatia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| surpassedBy | Courtney Walsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| team | Haryana cricket team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| testDebutYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| testMatchesPlayed | 131 ⓘ |
| testRunsScored | 5248 ⓘ |
| testWicketsTaken | 434 ⓘ |
| worldCupWonAsCaptain | 1983 Cricket World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Kapil Dev Description of subject: Kapil Dev is a legendary Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders in the history of the sport and the captain who led India to its first Cricket World Cup title in 1983.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.