David Hopkin
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David Hopkin is a Scottish former professional footballer and manager best known for his time as a midfielder with clubs such as Leeds United and Crystal Palace and for scoring the winning goal in the 1997 First Division play-off final.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Hopkin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10205572 — 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: David Hopkin Context triple: [Hopkin, hasNotableBearer, David Hopkin]
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A.
Keith Hopkins
Keith Hopkins was a prominent British historian and sociologist of the ancient world, known especially for his influential work on Roman social and economic history.
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B.
Michael Hopkinson
Michael Hopkinson is a historian known for his work on modern Irish history, particularly the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War.
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C.
Jonathan Hopkin
Jonathan Hopkin is a political scientist known for his work on comparative politics, economic inequality, and the dynamics of democratic systems, particularly in Europe.
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D.
Chris Hopewell
Chris Hopewell is a British director and animator best known for his distinctive stop-motion and mixed-media music videos for major rock and alternative bands.
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E.
Andy Hopper
Andy Hopper is a British computer scientist and entrepreneur known for his influential work in computer networking, systems research, and the founding of several technology companies.
- 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: David Hopkin Target entity description: David Hopkin is a Scottish former professional footballer and manager best known for his time as a midfielder with clubs such as Leeds United and Crystal Palace and for scoring the winning goal in the 1997 First Division play-off final.
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A.
Keith Hopkins
Keith Hopkins was a prominent British historian and sociologist of the ancient world, known especially for his influential work on Roman social and economic history.
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B.
Michael Hopkinson
Michael Hopkinson is a historian known for his work on modern Irish history, particularly the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War.
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C.
Jonathan Hopkin
Jonathan Hopkin is a political scientist known for his work on comparative politics, economic inequality, and the dynamics of democratic systems, particularly in Europe.
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D.
Chris Hopewell
Chris Hopewell is a British director and animator best known for his distinctive stop-motion and mixed-media music videos for major rock and alternative bands.
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E.
Andy Hopper
Andy Hopper is a British computer scientist and entrepreneur known for his influential work in computer networking, systems research, and the founding of several technology companies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
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football manager ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeYearsAsManager |
2010s
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2020s ⓘ |
| activeYearsAsPlayer |
1990s
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2000s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole |
first-team coach
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midfield player ⓘ team manager ⓘ |
| leagueDebutFor | Greenock Morton F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managed |
Ayr United F.C.
NERFINISHED
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Bradford City A.F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Greenock Morton F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Greenock Morton F.C. (second spell) NERFINISHED ⓘ Livingston F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableFor |
career as a Scottish professional football midfielder
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helping Crystal Palace gain promotion to the Premier League in 1997 ⓘ winning goal in the 1997 First Division play-off final ⓘ |
| occupation |
association football player
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football manager ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Bradford City A.F.C.
NERFINISHED
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Chelsea F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Crystal Palace F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Greenock Morton F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Greenock Morton F.C. Reserves and Youth Team NERFINISHED ⓘ Leeds United F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInLeague |
English Football League First Division
NERFINISHED
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English Premier League NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottish Football League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | midfielder ⓘ |
| representedNationalTeam |
Scotland B national football team
NERFINISHED
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Scotland national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
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: David Hopkin Description of subject: David Hopkin is a Scottish former professional footballer and manager best known for his time as a midfielder with clubs such as Leeds United and Crystal Palace and for scoring the winning goal in the 1997 First Division play-off final.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.