Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite
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Ballon d'Or winner
Brazil international footballer
association football player
attacking midfielder
human
Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, better known as Kaká, is a retired Brazilian attacking midfielder who starred for clubs like AC Milan and Real Madrid and won the 2007 Ballon d'Or.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6216769 — 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: Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite Context triple: [Kaká, fullName, Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite]
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A.
Leandro Barbosa
Leandro Barbosa is a Brazilian professional basketball player and NBA champion known for his speed and scoring ability, particularly during his tenure with the Phoenix Suns.
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B.
Guilherme Leal
Guilherme Leal is a Brazilian businessman, co-founder of the cosmetics company Natura, and a prominent environmental and social activist.
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C.
Fabricio Oberto
Fabricio Oberto is a retired Argentine professional basketball center best known for winning an NBA championship with the San Antonio Spurs and being part of Argentina’s golden generation that won Olympic gold in 2004.
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D.
Marcelo Gomes
Marcelo Gomes is a renowned Brazilian ballet dancer celebrated for his long and distinguished career as a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre.
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E.
Jorge Arantes
Jorge Arantes is a Portuguese former journalist best known as the first husband of author J. K. Rowling.
- 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: Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite Target entity description: Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, better known as Kaká, is a retired Brazilian attacking midfielder who starred for clubs like AC Milan and Real Madrid and won the 2007 Ballon d'Or.
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A.
Leandro Barbosa
Leandro Barbosa is a Brazilian professional basketball player and NBA champion known for his speed and scoring ability, particularly during his tenure with the Phoenix Suns.
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B.
Guilherme Leal
Guilherme Leal is a Brazilian businessman, co-founder of the cosmetics company Natura, and a prominent environmental and social activist.
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C.
Fabricio Oberto
Fabricio Oberto is a retired Argentine professional basketball center best known for winning an NBA championship with the San Antonio Spurs and being part of Argentina’s golden generation that won Olympic gold in 2004.
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D.
Marcelo Gomes
Marcelo Gomes is a renowned Brazilian ballet dancer celebrated for his long and distinguished career as a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre.
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E.
Jorge Arantes
Jorge Arantes is a Portuguese former journalist best known as the first husband of author J. K. Rowling.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ballon d'Or winner
ⓘ
Brazil international footballer ⓘ association football player ⓘ attacking midfielder ⓘ human ⓘ |
| capsForNationalTeam | Brazil 90 (approximate) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Brazil ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1982-04-22 ⓘ |
| goalsForNationalTeam | Brazil 29 (approximate) ⓘ |
| grewUpIn | São Paulo, Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasName | Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNickname | Kaká NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Digão (Rodrigo Izecson dos Santos Leite) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height | 1.86 m (approximate) ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
dribbling ability
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powerful long-range shooting ⓘ vision and passing ⓘ |
| joinedClub | AC Milan in 2003 ⓘ |
| madeSeniorDebutForClub | São Paulo FC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marriedTo | Caroline Celico (2005–2015) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Gama, Federal District, Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedForClub |
AC Milan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Orlando City SC NERFINISHED ⓘ Real Madrid CF NERFINISHED ⓘ São Paulo FC NERFINISHED ⓘ São Paulo FC (loan) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedForNationalTeam | Brazil national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInTournament |
FIFA World Cup 2002
NERFINISHED
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FIFA World Cup 2006 NERFINISHED ⓘ FIFA World Cup 2010 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
attacking midfielder
ⓘ
second striker ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| retiredFromProfessionalFootball | 2017 ⓘ |
| returnedToClub | AC Milan in 2013 ⓘ |
| shirtNumber |
22 at AC Milan
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8 at Real Madrid CF ⓘ |
| signedForClub | Orlando City SC in 2014 ⓘ |
| transferredToClub | Real Madrid CF in 2009 ⓘ |
| wonAward |
Ballon d'Or 2007
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
FIFA World Player of the Year 2007 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wonCompetition |
FIFA Confederations Cup 2005
NERFINISHED
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FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 NERFINISHED ⓘ FIFA World Cup 2002 NERFINISHED ⓘ La Liga 2011–12 NERFINISHED ⓘ Serie A 2003–04 NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Champions League 2006–07 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wonCompetitionWithClub |
La Liga 2011–12 with Real Madrid CF
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Serie A 2003–04 with AC Milan NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Champions League 2006–07 with AC Milan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wonCompetitionWithNationalTeam | FIFA World Cup 2002 with Brazil ⓘ |
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: Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite Description of subject: Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, better known as Kaká, is a retired Brazilian attacking midfielder who starred for clubs like AC Milan and Real Madrid and won the 2007 Ballon d'Or.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.