Tommy Gemmell
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Tommy Gemmell was a Scottish left-back best known for scoring in Celtic’s 1967 European Cup Final victory as one of the legendary “Lisbon Lions.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tommy Gemmell canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8059784 — 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: Tommy Gemmell Context triple: [Lisbon Lions, goalsScoredInFinalBy, Tommy Gemmell]
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A.
Jimmy Johnstone
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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.
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E.
Lewis Muir
Lewis Muir was an early 20th-century American composer and ragtime pianist known for popular songs such as "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee."
- 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: Tommy Gemmell Target entity description: Tommy Gemmell was a Scottish left-back best known for scoring in Celtic’s 1967 European Cup Final victory as one of the legendary “Lisbon Lions.”
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A.
Jimmy Johnstone
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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.
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E.
Lewis Muir
Lewis Muir was an early 20th-century American composer and ragtime pianist known for popular songs such as "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
ⓘ
defender ⓘ human ⓘ |
| basedIn | Glasgow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| clubAssociation | Celtic’s Lisbon Lions era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| clubNumberOfAppearances | Celtic F.C. – over 250 appearances ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Gemmell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Thomas Gemmell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWon |
European Cup
NERFINISHED
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Scottish Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottish League Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottish league championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| internationalCaps | Scotland national football team – more than 15 caps ⓘ |
| league |
English Football League
NERFINISHED
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North American Soccer League NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottish Football League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legacy |
regarded as one of Celtic’s greatest full-backs
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remembered for goal in 1967 European Cup Final ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Celtic F.C.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Miami Toros NERFINISHED ⓘ Nottingham Forest F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Scotland national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottish League XI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
One of the Lisbon Lions who won the 1967 European Cup
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Scored in 1967 European Cup Final for Celtic ⓘ |
| notableEvent | 1967 European Cup Final in Lisbon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Goal in 1967 European Cup Final NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | professional footballer ⓘ |
| partOf | Lisbon Lions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Celtic F.C.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Miami Toros NERFINISHED ⓘ Nottingham Forest F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Scotland national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| position |
defender
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left-back ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
full-back
ⓘ
left-back ⓘ |
| representedBy | Scotland at international level ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| styleOfPlay |
overlapping runs from full-back
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powerful shooting ⓘ |
| teamRole | attacking full-back for Celtic ⓘ |
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: Tommy Gemmell Description of subject: Tommy Gemmell was a Scottish left-back best known for scoring in Celtic’s 1967 European Cup Final victory as one of the legendary “Lisbon Lions.”
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.