Nigel Short
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Nigel Short is an English chess grandmaster renowned for challenging Garry Kasparov for the World Chess Championship in 1993 and for his long-standing contributions as a top-level player and chess commentator.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nigel Short canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9812122 — 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: Nigel Short Context triple: [Bolton School, hasNotableAlumni, Nigel Short]
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A.
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster widely regarded as one of the greatest chess players in history and a prominent political activist and author.
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B.
Michael Adams
Michael Adams is a common personal name shared by numerous individuals across fields such as sports, politics, academia, and the arts.
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C.
Robert Fisher
Robert Fisher is an artist and designer best known for creating the iconic cover art for Nirvana’s album "In Utero."
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D.
Boris Spassky
Boris Spassky is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion, best known for his 1972 title match against Bobby Fischer.
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E.
Robert Fisher Jr.
Robert Fisher Jr. is a cinematographer best known for his work on the acclaimed animated film "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse."
- 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: Nigel Short Target entity description: Nigel Short is an English chess grandmaster renowned for challenging Garry Kasparov for the World Chess Championship in 1993 and for his long-standing contributions as a top-level player and chess commentator.
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A.
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster widely regarded as one of the greatest chess players in history and a prominent political activist and author.
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B.
Michael Adams
Michael Adams is a common personal name shared by numerous individuals across fields such as sports, politics, academia, and the arts.
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C.
Robert Fisher
Robert Fisher is an artist and designer best known for creating the iconic cover art for Nirvana’s album "In Utero."
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D.
Boris Spassky
Boris Spassky is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion, best known for his 1972 title match against Bobby Fischer.
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E.
Robert Fisher Jr.
Robert Fisher Jr. is a cinematographer best known for his work on the acclaimed animated film "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chess player
ⓘ
human ⓘ sports commentator ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1965-06-01 ⓘ |
| era |
20th-century chess
ⓘ
21st-century chess ⓘ |
| familyName | Short NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FIDEID | 400025 ⓘ |
| fideTitleIMYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| fideTitleYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| fullName | Nigel David Short NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Nigel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEloCategory | super grandmaster ⓘ |
| knownFor |
attacking playing style
ⓘ
chess commentary ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | FIDE Presidential Board NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | youngest International Master in the world at the time in 1980 ⓘ |
| notableFor | challenging Garry Kasparov for the World Chess Championship 1993 ⓘ |
| notableGame |
Short vs Kasparov, PCA World Championship 1993
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Short vs Timman, Tilburg 1991 ⓘ |
| occupation |
chess coach
ⓘ
chess commentator ⓘ chess player ⓘ chess writer ⓘ |
| opponentInWorldChampionshipMatch | Garry Kasparov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Chess Olympiad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peakRating | 2712 ⓘ |
| peakRatingDate | 2004-07 ⓘ |
| peakWorldRanking | 3 ⓘ |
| peakWorldRankingDate | 1989-01 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
ⓘ
Lancashire NERFINISHED ⓘ Leigh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsForNationalTeam | England national chess team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Athens
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | FIDE Vice President NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| title |
Grandmaster
ⓘ
International Master ⓘ |
| worldChampionshipMatchLocation |
London
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfWorldChampionshipMatch | 1993 ⓘ |
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: Nigel Short Description of subject: Nigel Short is an English chess grandmaster renowned for challenging Garry Kasparov for the World Chess Championship in 1993 and for his long-standing contributions as a top-level player and chess commentator.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.