José María Olazábal
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José María Olazábal is a Spanish professional golfer renowned for his multiple major championship victories and successful Ryder Cup appearances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| José María Olazábal canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9368526 — 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: José María Olazábal Context triple: [The Amateur Championship, hasNotableWinner, José María Olazábal]
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A.
Wolfgang Larrazábal
Wolfgang Larrazábal was a Venezuelan naval officer and politician who briefly served as head of state following the 1958 overthrow of dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez.
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B.
Vicente Ballesteros
Vicente Ballesteros is the brother of legendary Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros and was also involved in professional golf.
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C.
Sergio García
Sergio García is a Spanish professional golfer renowned for his long and successful career on the PGA and European Tours, highlighted by his 2017 Masters Tournament victory.
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D.
Seve Ballesteros
Seve Ballesteros was a legendary Spanish golfer renowned for his creativity, charisma, and major championship victories, who became one of the most influential figures in European and world golf.
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E.
Carlos Valderrama
Carlos Valderrama is a legendary Colombian attacking midfielder renowned for his exceptional playmaking skills, iconic blond afro, and key role in Colombia’s national team during the late 1980s and 1990s.
- 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: José María Olazábal Target entity description: José María Olazábal is a Spanish professional golfer renowned for his multiple major championship victories and successful Ryder Cup appearances.
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A.
Wolfgang Larrazábal
Wolfgang Larrazábal was a Venezuelan naval officer and politician who briefly served as head of state following the 1958 overthrow of dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez.
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B.
Vicente Ballesteros
Vicente Ballesteros is the brother of legendary Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros and was also involved in professional golf.
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C.
Sergio García
Sergio García is a Spanish professional golfer renowned for his long and successful career on the PGA and European Tours, highlighted by his 2017 Masters Tournament victory.
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D.
Seve Ballesteros
Seve Ballesteros was a legendary Spanish golfer renowned for his creativity, charisma, and major championship victories, who became one of the most influential figures in European and world golf.
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E.
Carlos Valderrama
Carlos Valderrama is a legendary Colombian attacking midfielder renowned for his exceptional playmaking skills, iconic blond afro, and key role in Colombia’s national team during the late 1980s and 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
professional golfer ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
1980s
ⓘ
1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ |
| captaincy | 2012 Ryder Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| captained | Europe Ryder Cup team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Spain ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1966-02-05 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Basque people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Olazábal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | José María NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction | World Golf Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| handedness | right-handed ⓘ |
| hasWon |
multiple European Tour events
ⓘ
multiple international golf tournaments ⓘ |
| hasWonEventOnTour |
European Tour
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
PGA Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Ryder Cup performances
ⓘ
Seve Ballesteros partnership in Ryder Cup ⓘ short game ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Basque
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| memberOf |
European Tour
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
PGA Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | José María Olazábal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Spanish ⓘ |
| nickname | Ollie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfMajorChampionshipsWon | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation | golfer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Ryder Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partneredWith | Seve Ballesteros NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Basque Country
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fuenterrabía NERFINISHED ⓘ Gipuzkoa NERFINISHED ⓘ Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Fuenterrabía NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | golf ⓘ |
| team | Europe Ryder Cup team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| turnedProfessional | 1985 ⓘ |
| won |
1994 Masters Tournament
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
1999 Masters Tournament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfHallOfFameInduction | 2009 ⓘ |
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: José María Olazábal Description of subject: José María Olazábal is a Spanish professional golfer renowned for his multiple major championship victories and successful Ryder Cup appearances.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Open de France