Martin Atkinson
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Martin Atkinson is an English former professional football referee who officiated in the Premier League and at international level.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Martin Atkinson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8179672 — 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: Martin Atkinson Context triple: [Atkinson, hasNotableBearer, Martin Atkinson]
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A.
Christopher Atkinson
Christopher Atkinson is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically cited as a prominent bearer of the surname Atkinson.
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B.
Michael Elphick
Michael Elphick was an English actor known for his rugged, working-class roles in British film and television, including notable appearances in series like "Boon" and various acclaimed dramas.
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C.
Colin Moulding
Colin Moulding is an English bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the new wave band XTC.
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D.
Michael Jessop
Michael Jessop is a member of the Derby Philosophical Society, a learned society dedicated to scientific and intellectual inquiry in Derby, England.
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E.
Paul Kemp
Paul Kemp is the hard-drinking, disillusioned American journalist who serves as the protagonist and narrator of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel (and its film adaptation) "The Rum Diary."
- 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: Martin Atkinson Target entity description: Martin Atkinson is an English former professional football referee who officiated in the Premier League and at international level.
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A.
Christopher Atkinson
Christopher Atkinson is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically cited as a prominent bearer of the surname Atkinson.
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B.
Michael Elphick
Michael Elphick was an English actor known for his rugged, working-class roles in British film and television, including notable appearances in series like "Boon" and various acclaimed dramas.
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C.
Colin Moulding
Colin Moulding is an English bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the new wave band XTC.
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D.
Michael Jessop
Michael Jessop is a member of the Derby Philosophical Society, a learned society dedicated to scientific and intellectual inquiry in Derby, England.
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E.
Paul Kemp
Paul Kemp is the hard-drinking, disillusioned American journalist who serves as the protagonist and narrator of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel (and its film adaptation) "The Rum Diary."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football referee
ⓘ
human ⓘ sports official ⓘ |
| basedIn | West Yorkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competitionOfficiated |
FA Community Shield
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
FA Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ FIFA World Cup qualifiers NERFINISHED ⓘ Football League Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Champions League NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Europa League NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA European Championship qualifiers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1971-03-31 ⓘ |
| employer | Professional Game Match Officials Limited NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | football officiating ⓘ |
| FIFAlistRefereeEnd | 2018 ⓘ |
| FIFAlistRefereeStart | 2006 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasGivenRedCardsTo | various Premier League players ⓘ |
| hasGivenYellowCardsTo | various Premier League players ⓘ |
| hasOfficiatedAtStadium |
Anfield
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Emirates Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ Etihad Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Trafford NERFINISHED ⓘ Stamford Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| leagueOfficiated |
English Football League
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Premier League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Select Group of Referees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
officiating in the Premier League
ⓘ
officiating international football matches ⓘ |
| occupation |
football referee
ⓘ
school teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Bradford
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
England ⓘ West Yorkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| position | referee ⓘ |
| refereeingDebutInPremierLeague | 2004 ⓘ |
| retiredFromPremierLeagueRefereeing | 2022 ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| workedAs | referee coach ⓘ |
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: Martin Atkinson Description of subject: Martin Atkinson is an English former professional football referee who officiated in the Premier League and at international level.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.