John Obi Mikel
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John Obi Mikel is a Nigerian former professional footballer best known as a defensive midfielder who starred for Chelsea FC and captained Nigeria’s national team to multiple major tournaments, including winning the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Obi Mikel canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T480616 — 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: John Obi Mikel Context triple: [Nigeria national football team, notablePlayer, John Obi Mikel]
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A.
Vincent Enyeama
Vincent Enyeama is a renowned Nigerian goalkeeper best known for his long, successful international career and standout performances at multiple FIFA World Cups.
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B.
Jay-Jay Okocha
Jay-Jay Okocha is a retired Nigerian attacking midfielder renowned for his exceptional dribbling skills, creativity, and flair, widely regarded as one of Africa’s greatest footballers.
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C.
Sunday Oliseh
Sunday Oliseh is a former Nigerian defensive midfielder and captain renowned for his key role in Nigeria’s 1994 Africa Cup of Nations triumph, the 1996 Olympic gold, and his successful club career in Europe.
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D.
Kevin De Bruyne
Kevin De Bruyne is a Belgian professional footballer widely regarded as one of the best midfielders of his generation, known for his exceptional vision, passing, and creativity for Manchester City and the Belgium national team.
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E.
Nwankwo Kanu
Nwankwo Kanu is a retired Nigerian footballer renowned for his skillful forward play in Europe’s top leagues and for helping Nigeria win the 1996 Olympic gold medal in football.
- 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: John Obi Mikel Target entity description: John Obi Mikel is a Nigerian former professional footballer best known as a defensive midfielder who starred for Chelsea FC and captained Nigeria’s national team to multiple major tournaments, including winning the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.
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A.
Vincent Enyeama
Vincent Enyeama is a renowned Nigerian goalkeeper best known for his long, successful international career and standout performances at multiple FIFA World Cups.
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B.
Jay-Jay Okocha
Jay-Jay Okocha is a retired Nigerian attacking midfielder renowned for his exceptional dribbling skills, creativity, and flair, widely regarded as one of Africa’s greatest footballers.
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C.
Sunday Oliseh
Sunday Oliseh is a former Nigerian defensive midfielder and captain renowned for his key role in Nigeria’s 1994 Africa Cup of Nations triumph, the 1996 Olympic gold, and his successful club career in Europe.
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D.
Kevin De Bruyne
Kevin De Bruyne is a Belgian professional footballer widely regarded as one of the best midfielders of his generation, known for his exceptional vision, passing, and creativity for Manchester City and the Belgium national team.
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E.
Nwankwo Kanu
Nwankwo Kanu is a retired Nigerian footballer renowned for his skillful forward play in Europe’s top leagues and for helping Nigeria win the 1996 Olympic gold medal in football.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
ⓘ
human ⓘ midfielder ⓘ |
| captained | Nigeria national football team ⓘ |
| clubHonour |
FA Community Shield
ⓘ
surface form:
FA Community Shield 2009 with Chelsea
FA Cup ⓘ
surface form:
FA Cup 2006–07 with Chelsea
FA Cup 2008–09 with Chelsea ⓘ FA Cup 2009–10 with Chelsea ⓘ FA Cup ⓘ
surface form:
FA Cup 2011–12 with Chelsea
EFL Cup ⓘ
surface form:
Football League Cup 2006–07 with Chelsea
EFL Cup ⓘ
surface form:
Football League Cup 2014–15 with Chelsea
Premier League ⓘ
surface form:
Premier League 2009–10 with Chelsea
Premier League 2014–15 with Chelsea ⓘ UEFA Champions League 2011–12 with Chelsea ⓘ UEFA Europa League ⓘ
surface form:
UEFA Europa League 2012–13 with Chelsea
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Nigeria ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1987-04-22 ⓘ |
| fullName | John Michael Nchekwube Obinna ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| leagueDebutFor | Chelsea F.C. ⓘ |
| majorTournament |
Africa Cup of Nations
ⓘ
surface form:
2013 Africa Cup of Nations
2014 FIFA World Cup ⓘ 2016 Summer Olympics football tournament ⓘ 2018 FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
| nationalTeam | Nigeria national football team ⓘ |
| nickname | Mikel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
captaining Nigeria to 2013 Africa Cup of Nations title
ⓘ
long-term career at Chelsea F.C. ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Jos, Nigeria ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Chelsea F.C.
ⓘ
Kuwait SC ⓘ Lyn Fotball ⓘ Middlesbrough F.C. ⓘ Plateau United F.C. ⓘ Stoke City F.C. ⓘ Tianjin Jinmen Tiger F.C. ⓘ
surface form:
Tianjin TEDA F.C.
Trabzonspor football club ⓘ
surface form:
Trabzonspor
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| positionPlayed |
central midfielder
ⓘ
defensive midfielder ⓘ |
| retiredFromProfessionalFootball | true ⓘ |
| shirtNumberAtChelsea | 12 ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| wonMedal | 2016 Olympic bronze medal in men’s football ⓘ |
| wonTournament |
Africa Cup of Nations
ⓘ
surface form:
2013 Africa Cup of Nations
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| yearsAtClub | Chelsea F.C. 2006–2017 ⓘ |
| youthClub |
Pepsi Football Academy
ⓘ
Plateau United F.C. ⓘ |
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: John Obi Mikel Description of subject: John Obi Mikel is a Nigerian former professional footballer best known as a defensive midfielder who starred for Chelsea FC and captained Nigeria’s national team to multiple major tournaments, including winning the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.