Jimmy Johnstone
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Jimmy Johnstone was a legendary Scottish winger, best known as a key member of Celtic’s “Lisbon Lions” team that won the 1967 European Cup and as one of the club’s greatest ever players.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jimmy Johnstone canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7180745 — 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: Jimmy Johnstone Context triple: [Celtic Park, hasStatueOf, Jimmy Johnstone]
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A.
Willie Gallacher
Willie Gallacher was a prominent Scottish communist politician and trade unionist who served as one of the most influential leaders and public faces of the Communist Party of Great Britain in the early to mid-20th century.
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B.
Kenny Dalglish
Kenny Dalglish is a legendary Scottish footballer and manager, renowned for his prolific playing career at Celtic and Liverpool and his highly successful spells managing Liverpool and the Scottish national team.
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C.
Billy Bremner
Billy Bremner was a legendary Scottish midfielder best known for captaining Leeds United during their most successful era in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Tony Docherty
Tony Docherty is a Scottish football coach and former player best known for managing Dundee F.C. in the Scottish Professional Football League.
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E.
Denis Law
Denis Law is a Scottish former professional footballer best known as a prolific forward for Manchester United and the Scotland national team during the 1960s and early 1970s.
- 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: Jimmy Johnstone Target entity description: Jimmy Johnstone was a legendary Scottish winger, best known as a key member of Celtic’s “Lisbon Lions” team that won the 1967 European Cup and as one of the club’s greatest ever players.
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A.
Willie Gallacher
Willie Gallacher was a prominent Scottish communist politician and trade unionist who served as one of the most influential leaders and public faces of the Communist Party of Great Britain in the early to mid-20th century.
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B.
Kenny Dalglish
Kenny Dalglish is a legendary Scottish footballer and manager, renowned for his prolific playing career at Celtic and Liverpool and his highly successful spells managing Liverpool and the Scottish national team.
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C.
Billy Bremner
Billy Bremner was a legendary Scottish midfielder best known for captaining Leeds United during their most successful era in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Tony Docherty
Tony Docherty is a Scottish football coach and former player best known for managing Dundee F.C. in the Scottish Professional Football League.
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E.
Denis Law
Denis Law is a Scottish former professional footballer best known as a prolific forward for Manchester United and the Scotland national team during the 1960s and early 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Celtic Player of the Year
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scottish Footballer of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | motor neurone disease ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1944-09-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2006-03-13 ⓘ |
| describedBySource | one of Celtic’s greatest ever players ⓘ |
| fullName | James Connolly Johnstone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasMonument | Jimmy Johnstone statue at Celtic Park ⓘ |
| height | 1.62 m ⓘ |
| heritage | Scottish ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | member of Celtic’s Lisbon Lions ⓘ |
| inHallOfFame | Scottish Football Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Blantyre Celtic F.C.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Celtic F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Dundee F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Elgin City F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ San Jose Earthquakes NERFINISHED ⓘ Scotland national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ Scotland under-23 national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottish League XI NERFINISHED ⓘ Sheffield United F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Shelbourne F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Jinky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | member of Celtic’s Lisbon Lions ⓘ |
| numberOfCapsForScotland | 23 ⓘ |
| numberOfGoalsForScotland | 4 ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1967 European Cup Final
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
1967–68 European Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottish Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottish Football League NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottish League Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
North Lanarkshire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scotland ⓘ Viewpark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Scotland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Lanarkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Uddingston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedForYearsAtCeltic | 1961–1975 ⓘ |
| positionPlayedOnTeam | winger ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Jimmy Johnstone (documentary film) 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: Jimmy Johnstone Description of subject: Jimmy Johnstone was a legendary Scottish winger, best known as a key member of Celtic’s “Lisbon Lions” team that won the 1967 European Cup and as one of the club’s greatest ever players.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.