Cesare Maldini
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Cesare Maldini was an Italian footballer and manager best known as a legendary AC Milan defender and later coach of both AC Milan and the Italian national team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cesare Maldini canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6610613 — 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: Cesare Maldini Context triple: [Paolo Maldini, father, Cesare Maldini]
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A.
Paolo Maldini
Paolo Maldini is an iconic Italian defender and long-time AC Milan captain, widely regarded as one of the greatest defenders in football history.
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B.
Franco Baresi
Franco Baresi is an Italian football legend widely regarded as one of the greatest defenders of all time, renowned for his leadership, tactical intelligence, and long, trophy-laden career with both club and country.
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C.
Filippo Inzaghi
Filippo Inzaghi is a retired Italian striker renowned for his prolific goal-scoring, poacher’s instincts, and key role in AC Milan and Italy’s successes in the late 1990s and 2000s.
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D.
Javier Zanetti
Javier Zanetti is an iconic Argentine defender and midfielder renowned for his longevity, leadership, and success at both club and international level.
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E.
Gianluca Vialli
Gianluca Vialli was an Italian footballer and manager renowned for his prolific goal-scoring at clubs like Sampdoria, Juventus, and Chelsea, as well as for later serving on Italy’s national team coaching staff.
- 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: Cesare Maldini Target entity description: Cesare Maldini was an Italian footballer and manager best known as a legendary AC Milan defender and later coach of both AC Milan and the Italian national team.
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A.
Paolo Maldini
Paolo Maldini is an iconic Italian defender and long-time AC Milan captain, widely regarded as one of the greatest defenders in football history.
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B.
Franco Baresi
Franco Baresi is an Italian football legend widely regarded as one of the greatest defenders of all time, renowned for his leadership, tactical intelligence, and long, trophy-laden career with both club and country.
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C.
Filippo Inzaghi
Filippo Inzaghi is a retired Italian striker renowned for his prolific goal-scoring, poacher’s instincts, and key role in AC Milan and Italy’s successes in the late 1990s and 2000s.
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D.
Javier Zanetti
Javier Zanetti is an iconic Argentine defender and midfielder renowned for his longevity, leadership, and success at both club and international level.
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E.
Gianluca Vialli
Gianluca Vialli was an Italian footballer and manager renowned for his prolific goal-scoring at clubs like Sampdoria, Juventus, and Chelsea, as well as for later serving on Italy’s national team coaching staff.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Italian footballer
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football manager ⓘ human ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Milan, Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capsForNationalTeam | Italy: 25 ⓘ |
| captained | AC Milan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| clubCareerEnd | 1967 ⓘ |
| clubCareerStart | 1952 ⓘ |
| coachedAtTournament |
1998 FIFA World Cup
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
2002 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Italy ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1932-02-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016-04-03 ⓘ |
| familyName | Maldini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Cesare Maldini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Cesare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| goalsForNationalTeam | Italy: 0 ⓘ |
| heritage | Italian ⓘ |
| knownFor |
coach of AC Milan
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coach of Italy national football team ⓘ legendary AC Milan defender ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Italian ⓘ |
| managed |
AC Milan
NERFINISHED
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Italy national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ Italy under-21 national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ Paraguay national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managerialCareerEnd | 2002 ⓘ |
| managerialCareerStart | 1972 ⓘ |
| nationalTeam | Italy national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | captain of AC Milan’s first European Cup-winning side ⓘ |
| numberOfEuropeanUnder21TitlesAsCoach | 3 ⓘ |
| parentOf | Paolo Maldini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
1958 FIFA World Cup qualification
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
1962 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Trieste, Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Milan, Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
AC Milan
NERFINISHED
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Torino FC NERFINISHED ⓘ Triestina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
centre-back
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defender ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| spouse | Maria Luisa De Mezzo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wonCompetitionAsManager | UEFA European Under-21 Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wonCompetitionAsPlayer |
European Cup
NERFINISHED
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Serie A NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Cesare Maldini Description of subject: Cesare Maldini was an Italian footballer and manager best known as a legendary AC Milan defender and later coach of both AC Milan and the Italian national team.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.