Thomas Vermaelen
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Thomas Vermaelen is a Belgian former professional footballer and defender best known for his time at clubs such as Ajax, Arsenal, Barcelona, and the Belgium national team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Vermaelen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10028750 — 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: Thomas Vermaelen Context triple: [Vissel Kobe, notableFormerPlayer, Thomas Vermaelen]
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A.
Wim van de Donk
Wim van de Donk is a Dutch academic and public administrator known for his leadership roles in higher education and government, including serving as rector magnificus of Tilburg University and as King’s Commissioner in the province of North Brabant.
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B.
Frenkie de Jong
Frenkie de Jong is a Dutch professional footballer known for his intelligent playmaking and ball-carrying ability as a central midfielder for FC Barcelona and the Netherlands national team.
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C.
Denzel Dumfries
Denzel Dumfries is a Dutch professional footballer known for playing as an attacking right-back or wing-back for Inter Milan and the Netherlands national team.
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D.
Johan Neeskens
Johan Neeskens is a former Dutch footballer renowned as one of the world’s best midfielders of the 1970s, especially for his role in the Netherlands’ “Total Football” era and at clubs like Ajax and FC Barcelona.
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E.
Matthijs de Ligt
Matthijs de Ligt is a Dutch professional footballer, known as a highly rated central defender who has played for clubs such as Ajax, Juventus, and Bayern Munich as well as the Netherlands 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: Thomas Vermaelen Target entity description: Thomas Vermaelen is a Belgian former professional footballer and defender best known for his time at clubs such as Ajax, Arsenal, Barcelona, and the Belgium national team.
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A.
Wim van de Donk
Wim van de Donk is a Dutch academic and public administrator known for his leadership roles in higher education and government, including serving as rector magnificus of Tilburg University and as King’s Commissioner in the province of North Brabant.
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B.
Frenkie de Jong
Frenkie de Jong is a Dutch professional footballer known for his intelligent playmaking and ball-carrying ability as a central midfielder for FC Barcelona and the Netherlands national team.
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C.
Denzel Dumfries
Denzel Dumfries is a Dutch professional footballer known for playing as an attacking right-back or wing-back for Inter Milan and the Netherlands national team.
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D.
Johan Neeskens
Johan Neeskens is a former Dutch footballer renowned as one of the world’s best midfielders of the 1970s, especially for his role in the Netherlands’ “Total Football” era and at clubs like Ajax and FC Barcelona.
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E.
Matthijs de Ligt
Matthijs de Ligt is a Dutch professional footballer, known as a highly rated central defender who has played for clubs such as Ajax, Juventus, and Bayern Munich as well as the Netherlands national team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
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defender ⓘ human ⓘ |
| captainOf |
Arsenal F.C.
NERFINISHED
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Belgium national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Belgium ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1985-11-14 ⓘ |
| familyName | Vermaelen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Thomas Vermaelen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWon |
Copa del Rey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
FA Community Shield NERFINISHED ⓘ FA Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ J1 League NERFINISHED ⓘ Johan Cruyff Shield NERFINISHED ⓘ KNVB Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ La Liga NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Champions League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leagueDebut | Eredivisie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Belgium national team coaching staff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
A.S. Roma
NERFINISHED
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AFC Ajax NERFINISHED ⓘ Arsenal F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Belgium national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ FC Barcelona NERFINISHED ⓘ RKC Waalwijk NERFINISHED ⓘ Vissel Kobe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Belgian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership in defence
ⓘ
strong tackling and aerial ability ⓘ |
| occupation |
football coach
ⓘ
professional footballer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
2014 FIFA World Cup
NERFINISHED
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2018 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Euro 2016 NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Euro 2020 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kapellen, Belgium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInLeague |
Eredivisie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
J1 League NERFINISHED ⓘ La Liga NERFINISHED ⓘ Premier League NERFINISHED ⓘ Serie A NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
centre-back
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left-back ⓘ |
| retiredFromSport | association football ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| shirtNumber |
4
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5 ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| youthClub |
AFC Ajax
NERFINISHED
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Germinal Beerschot NERFINISHED ⓘ Germinal Ekeren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Thomas Vermaelen Description of subject: Thomas Vermaelen is a Belgian former professional footballer and defender best known for his time at clubs such as Ajax, Arsenal, Barcelona, and the Belgium national team.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.