Billy McNeill
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Billy McNeill was a legendary Scottish footballer and manager best known as the iconic Celtic defender who captained the club to their historic 1967 European Cup triumph.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Billy McNeill canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8059787 — 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: Billy McNeill Context triple: [Lisbon Lions, captain, Billy McNeill]
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A.
Jock Stein
Jock Stein was a legendary Scottish football manager best known for leading Celtic to the 1967 European Cup and dominating domestic football in Scotland.
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B.
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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C.
William Allardyce
William Allardyce was a British colonial administrator, notably serving as Governor of the Falkland Islands and later of Newfoundland in the early 20th century.
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D.
Rob Strachan
Rob Strachan is a distinguished geologist recognized for his significant contributions to the earth sciences, as evidenced by honors such as the William Smith Medal.
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E.
Bryan Robson
Bryan Robson is a former England international midfielder and long-serving Manchester United captain who later became a football manager.
- 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: Billy McNeill Target entity description: Billy McNeill was a legendary Scottish footballer and manager best known as the iconic Celtic defender who captained the club to their historic 1967 European Cup triumph.
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A.
Jock Stein
Jock Stein was a legendary Scottish football manager best known for leading Celtic to the 1967 European Cup and dominating domestic football in Scotland.
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B.
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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C.
William Allardyce
William Allardyce was a British colonial administrator, notably serving as Governor of the Falkland Islands and later of Newfoundland in the early 20th century.
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D.
Rob Strachan
Rob Strachan is a distinguished geologist recognized for his significant contributions to the earth sciences, as evidenced by honors such as the William Smith Medal.
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E.
Bryan Robson
Bryan Robson is a former England international midfielder and long-serving Manchester United captain who later became a football manager.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defender
ⓘ
football manager ⓘ football player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| caps | 29 ⓘ |
| captained | Celtic F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| captainedToTitle | 1967 European Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | dementia-related illness ⓘ |
| clubAppearances | over 800 for Celtic in all competitions ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Scotland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1940-03-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2019-04-22 ⓘ |
| fullName | William McNeill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| goals | 3 ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction | Scottish Football Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honor | CBE NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| internationalTeam | Scotland national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leagueTitlesWithCeltic | 9 consecutive Scottish league titles ⓘ |
| managed |
Aberdeen F.C.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Aston Villa F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Celtic F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Manchester City F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Lisbon Lions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| nickname |
Billy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cesar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | captaining Celtic to 1967 European Cup victory ⓘ |
| oneClubMan | true ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bellshill, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Newton Mearns, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor | Celtic F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
centre-back
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defender ⓘ |
| seniorCareerEnd | 1975 ⓘ |
| seniorCareerStart | 1957 ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| statueLocation | Celtic Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| testimonialMatch | Celtic vs Liverpool 1974 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wonCompetition |
European Cup 1966–67
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scottish Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottish League Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottish League Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| youthClub | Blantyre Victoria F.C. 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: Billy McNeill Description of subject: Billy McNeill was a legendary Scottish footballer and manager best known as the iconic Celtic defender who captained the club to their historic 1967 European Cup triumph.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.