Wilfried Bony
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Wilfried Bony is an Ivorian professional footballer known as a powerful striker who has played in top European leagues and represented Ivory Coast at major international tournaments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wilfried Bony canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9282579 — 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: Wilfried Bony Context triple: [Les Éléphants, notablePlayer, Wilfried Bony]
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A.
Didier Drogba
Didier Drogba is a retired Ivorian footballer renowned as one of Africa’s greatest strikers, best known for his prolific spell at Chelsea FC and his influential humanitarian work.
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B.
Samuel Eto'o
Samuel Eto'o is a legendary Cameroonian striker widely regarded as one of Africa’s greatest footballers, known for his prolific club career with teams like Barcelona and Inter Milan and his key role in Cameroon’s international success.
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C.
Salomon Kalou
Salomon Kalou is an Ivorian professional footballer best known as a versatile forward who enjoyed a successful club career in Europe, including a Champions League win with Chelsea, and was a key attacker for the Ivory Coast national team.
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D.
Sulley Muntari
Sulley Muntari is a Ghanaian professional footballer and midfielder known for his powerful left foot, long-range shooting, and key performances for both top European clubs and the Ghana national team, including multiple FIFA World Cup appearances.
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E.
Hatem Ben Arfa
Hatem Ben Arfa is a French professional footballer known for his exceptional dribbling skills and creative attacking play, having represented clubs such as Lyon, Marseille, Newcastle United, and Paris Saint-Germain as well as the French national team.
- 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: Wilfried Bony Target entity description: Wilfried Bony is an Ivorian professional footballer known as a powerful striker who has played in top European leagues and represented Ivory Coast at major international tournaments.
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A.
Didier Drogba
Didier Drogba is a retired Ivorian footballer renowned as one of Africa’s greatest strikers, best known for his prolific spell at Chelsea FC and his influential humanitarian work.
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B.
Samuel Eto'o
Samuel Eto'o is a legendary Cameroonian striker widely regarded as one of Africa’s greatest footballers, known for his prolific club career with teams like Barcelona and Inter Milan and his key role in Cameroon’s international success.
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C.
Salomon Kalou
Salomon Kalou is an Ivorian professional footballer best known as a versatile forward who enjoyed a successful club career in Europe, including a Champions League win with Chelsea, and was a key attacker for the Ivory Coast national team.
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D.
Sulley Muntari
Sulley Muntari is a Ghanaian professional footballer and midfielder known for his powerful left foot, long-range shooting, and key performances for both top European clubs and the Ghana national team, including multiple FIFA World Cup appearances.
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E.
Hatem Ben Arfa
Hatem Ben Arfa is a French professional footballer known for his exceptional dribbling skills and creative attacking play, having represented clubs such as Lyon, Marseille, Newcastle United, and Paris Saint-Germain as well as the French national team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
professional footballer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ivory Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1988-12-10 ⓘ |
| familyName | Bony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Wilfried Guemiand Bony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Wilfried NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasParticipatedIn |
2012 Africa Cup of Nations
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
2014 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ 2015 Africa Cup of Nations NERFINISHED ⓘ 2017 Africa Cup of Nations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPlayedForClub |
Al-Arabi SC (Qatar)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Al-Ittihad Jeddah NERFINISHED ⓘ Issia Wazy NERFINISHED ⓘ Manchester City NERFINISHED ⓘ NEC Nijmegen NERFINISHED ⓘ Newport County NERFINISHED ⓘ Sparta Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ Sparta Prague B NERFINISHED ⓘ Stoke City NERFINISHED ⓘ Swansea City NERFINISHED ⓘ Vitesse Arnhem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPlayedInLeague |
Eredivisie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ligue 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Premier League NERFINISHED ⓘ Qatar Stars League NERFINISHED ⓘ Saudi Professional League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | powerful striker ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| nationality | Ivorian ⓘ |
| nationalTeam | Ivory Coast national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bingerville, Ivory Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playingStyle |
physical forward
ⓘ
powerful shot ⓘ strong in the air ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | striker ⓘ |
| shirtNumber | 9 ⓘ |
| signedForClub |
Manchester City in 2015
ⓘ
Swansea City in 2013 ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| transferFeeRecord | record transfer fee for Swansea City in 2013 ⓘ |
| wonCompetition | Africa Cup of Nations 2015 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: Wilfried Bony Description of subject: Wilfried Bony is an Ivorian professional footballer known as a powerful striker who has played in top European leagues and represented Ivory Coast at major international tournaments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.