Official World Golf Ranking
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The Official World Golf Ranking is the global points-based system used to rank male professional golfers across all major tours and events.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Official World Golf Ranking canonical | 7 |
| Official World Golf Ranking board | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6097942 — 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: Official World Golf Ranking Context triple: [Sunshine Tour, recognizedBy, Official World Golf Ranking]
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A.
world amateur golf rankings (with partners)
The World Amateur Golf Rankings (with partners) is an official global system that ranks male and female amateur golfers based on their performance in recognized tournaments, jointly administered by The R&A and allied organizations.
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B.
International Golf Federation
The International Golf Federation is the global governing body responsible for overseeing the sport of golf worldwide, including its rules, international competitions, and representation within the Olympic movement.
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C.
PGA Tour
The PGA Tour is the primary organizer of elite professional men's golf tours in the United States and North America, overseeing many of the sport's most prestigious tournaments.
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D.
UCI World Ranking
The UCI World Ranking was an earlier season-long points-based classification system used by cycling’s world governing body to rank professional road cyclists and teams globally.
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E.
PGA Tour Champions
PGA Tour Champions is the PGA Tour’s professional golf circuit for male players aged 50 and older, featuring senior-level tournaments worldwide.
- 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: Official World Golf Ranking Target entity description: The Official World Golf Ranking is the global points-based system used to rank male professional golfers across all major tours and events.
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A.
world amateur golf rankings (with partners)
The World Amateur Golf Rankings (with partners) is an official global system that ranks male and female amateur golfers based on their performance in recognized tournaments, jointly administered by The R&A and allied organizations.
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B.
International Golf Federation
The International Golf Federation is the global governing body responsible for overseeing the sport of golf worldwide, including its rules, international competitions, and representation within the Olympic movement.
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C.
PGA Tour
The PGA Tour is the primary organizer of elite professional men's golf tours in the United States and North America, overseeing many of the sport's most prestigious tournaments.
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D.
UCI World Ranking
The UCI World Ranking was an earlier season-long points-based classification system used by cycling’s world governing body to rank professional road cyclists and teams globally.
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E.
PGA Tour Champions
PGA Tour Champions is the PGA Tour’s professional golf circuit for male players aged 50 and older, featuring senior-level tournaments worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | golf ranking system ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | OWGR NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appliesTo | male professional golfers ⓘ |
| basedOn | points system ⓘ |
| calculationIncludes |
performance in official tournaments
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points decay over time ⓘ strength of field ⓘ tournament weighting ⓘ |
| covers |
Asian Tour
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
DP World Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ Japan Golf Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ Korn Ferry Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ PGA Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ Sunshine Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dataSource | sanctioned professional golf tours ⓘ |
| excludes | women's professional golf ⓘ |
| foundedBy | International golf organizations ⓘ |
| genderFocus | men ⓘ |
| governingBody | Official World Golf Ranking Board NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRankingType | individual player ranking ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| introduced | 1986 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| primaryUse | determine world number one golfer ⓘ |
| ranks |
players in major golf events
ⓘ
players on major golf tours ⓘ professional golfers ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Rolex Rankings
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
men's major golf championships ⓘ |
| scope | global ⓘ |
| sport | golf ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
Augusta National Golf Club
NERFINISHED
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DP World Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ International Federation of PGA Tours NERFINISHED ⓘ PGA Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ PGA of America NERFINISHED ⓘ The R&A NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Golf Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeFrame |
rolling period
ⓘ
two-year period ⓘ |
| usedBy |
World Golf Championships organizers
ⓘ
major golf championships organizers ⓘ major golf tours ⓘ |
| usedFor |
eligibility for certain professional golf events
ⓘ
qualification for World Golf Championships ⓘ qualification for major golf championships ⓘ |
| website | https://www.owgr.com ⓘ |
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: Official World Golf Ranking Description of subject: The Official World Golf Ranking is the global points-based system used to rank male professional golfers across all major tours and events.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Japan Golf Tour (co-sanctioned historically for some exemptions)
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rankingSystemUsed
→
Official World Golf Ranking
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subject surface form:
Japan Golf Tour
Japan Golf Tour (co-sanctioned historically for some exemptions)
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recognizedBy
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Official World Golf Ranking
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subject surface form:
Japan Golf Tour
this entity surface form:
Official World Golf Ranking board
subject surface form:
Nick Faldo