Per Mertesacker
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Per Mertesacker is a retired German central defender best known for his commanding presence at Werder Bremen and Arsenal and for winning the 2014 FIFA World Cup with Germany.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Per Mertesacker canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8176898 — 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)
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Target entity: Per Mertesacker Context triple: [FIFA World Cup All-Star Team 2010, includesPlayer, Per Mertesacker]
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A.
Lukas Podolski
Lukas Podolski is a German former professional footballer known for his powerful left foot, prolific international career with Germany, and key role in their 2014 World Cup triumph.
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B.
Julian Draxler
Julian Draxler is a German professional footballer known as a creative attacking midfielder and winger who has played for clubs such as Schalke 04, Wolfsburg, and Paris Saint-Germain, as well as the German national team.
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C.
Blake Schilb
Blake Schilb is an American-born professional basketball player, naturalized Czech, known for his versatile wing play in European leagues and appearances with the Czech national team.
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D.
Christian Ehrhoff
Christian Ehrhoff is a German professional ice hockey defenseman best known for his long NHL career with teams such as the San Jose Sharks and Vancouver Canucks and for representing Germany in multiple international tournaments.
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E.
Edward Warschilka
Edward Warschilka was a film editor best known for his work on the 1973 mystery thriller "The Last of Sheila."
- 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: Per Mertesacker Target entity description: Per Mertesacker is a retired German central defender best known for his commanding presence at Werder Bremen and Arsenal and for winning the 2014 FIFA World Cup with Germany.
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A.
Lukas Podolski
Lukas Podolski is a German former professional footballer known for his powerful left foot, prolific international career with Germany, and key role in their 2014 World Cup triumph.
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B.
Julian Draxler
Julian Draxler is a German professional footballer known as a creative attacking midfielder and winger who has played for clubs such as Schalke 04, Wolfsburg, and Paris Saint-Germain, as well as the German national team.
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C.
Blake Schilb
Blake Schilb is an American-born professional basketball player, naturalized Czech, known for his versatile wing play in European leagues and appearances with the Czech national team.
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D.
Christian Ehrhoff
Christian Ehrhoff is a German professional ice hockey defenseman best known for his long NHL career with teams such as the San Jose Sharks and Vancouver Canucks and for representing Germany in multiple international tournaments.
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E.
Edward Warschilka
Edward Warschilka was a film editor best known for his work on the 1973 mystery thriller "The Last of Sheila."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
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central defender ⓘ human ⓘ |
| captainOf | Arsenal FC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1984-09-29 ⓘ |
| employer | Arsenal FC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Mertesacker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Per Mertesacker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Per NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height | 1.98 m ⓘ |
| knownFor |
calm defending style
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commanding aerial ability ⓘ positional awareness ⓘ |
| leagueParticipatedIn |
Bundesliga
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Premier League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Germany national under-21 football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| numberOfAppearancesForClub |
over 200 appearances for Arsenal
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over 200 appearances for Werder Bremen ⓘ |
| numberOfAppearancesForNationalTeam | over 100 caps for Germany ⓘ |
| occupation |
football coach
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football executive ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Hanover
NERFINISHED
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Lower Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ West Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Arsenal FC
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Germany national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ Hannover 96 NERFINISHED ⓘ Hannover 96 II NERFINISHED ⓘ SV Werder Bremen NERFINISHED ⓘ SV Werder Bremen II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playingPosition |
centre-back
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defender ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
club captain of Arsenal FC
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head of Arsenal Academy ⓘ |
| retiredFromPlaying | 2018 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| shirtNumber | 4 ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| tournamentParticipatedIn |
2006 FIFA World Cup
NERFINISHED
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2010 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ 2014 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Euro 2008 NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Euro 2012 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| winnerOf |
2014 FIFA World Cup
NERFINISHED
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DFB-Pokal NERFINISHED ⓘ DFL-Ligapokal NERFINISHED ⓘ FA Cup 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: Per Mertesacker Description of subject: Per Mertesacker is a retired German central defender best known for his commanding presence at Werder Bremen and Arsenal and for winning the 2014 FIFA World Cup with Germany.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.