Ma'a Nonu
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Ma'a Nonu is a powerful New Zealand rugby union centre renowned for his long and successful career with the All Blacks and in Super Rugby.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ma'a Nonu canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10253809 — 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: Ma'a Nonu Context triple: [Hurricanes, notableFormerPlayer, Ma'a Nonu]
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A.
Cecil Lolohea
Cecil Lolohea is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the given name Cecil.
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B.
Ieremia Tabai
Ieremia Tabai is a Kiribati politician who became the country's first president and one of the youngest heads of state in the world at the time of his election.
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C.
Sione Tuita
Sione Tuita is a Tongan political figure who has served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Tonga.
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D.
Sione Tupou Mateialona
Sione Tupou Mateialona was a Tongan political leader who served as the country’s prime minister.
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E.
Sione Laumanuʻuli Luani
Sione Laumanuʻuli Luani is a Tongan political figure who has served in the nation’s highest executive leadership as Prime Minister.
- 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: Ma'a Nonu Target entity description: Ma'a Nonu is a powerful New Zealand rugby union centre renowned for his long and successful career with the All Blacks and in Super Rugby.
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A.
Cecil Lolohea
Cecil Lolohea is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the given name Cecil.
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B.
Ieremia Tabai
Ieremia Tabai is a Kiribati politician who became the country's first president and one of the youngest heads of state in the world at the time of his election.
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C.
Sione Tuita
Sione Tuita is a Tongan political figure who has served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Tonga.
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D.
Sione Tupou Mateialona
Sione Tupou Mateialona was a Tongan political leader who served as the country’s prime minister.
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E.
Sione Laumanuʻuli Luani
Sione Laumanuʻuli Luani is a Tongan political figure who has served in the nation’s highest executive leadership as Prime Minister.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
rugby union player ⓘ |
| captainedTeam | Hurricanes (in selected matches) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| clubTeam |
Ricoh Black Rams
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Diego Legion NERFINISHED ⓘ Toulon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | New Zealand ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1982-05-21 ⓘ |
| debutForAllBlacks | 2003 ⓘ |
| education | Wellington College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | professional rugby union in the 2000s and 2010s ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Samoan New Zealander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Nonu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Ma'a Allan Nonu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Ma'a NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Jerry Nonu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height | about 1.82 m ⓘ |
| knownFor |
combination with Conrad Smith
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offloading ability ⓘ powerful ball carrying ⓘ strong tackling ⓘ |
| league |
Japan Rugby Top League
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Major League Rugby NERFINISHED ⓘ Super Rugby NERFINISHED ⓘ Top 14 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationalTeam | New Zealand national rugby union team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Wellington, New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInRugbyWorldCupFinal |
2011 Rugby World Cup Final
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
2015 Rugby World Cup Final NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedWith | Conrad Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
centre
ⓘ
inside centre ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| scoredTryInMatch | 2015 Rugby World Cup Final vs Australia ⓘ |
| shirtNumber | 12 ⓘ |
| sport | rugby union ⓘ |
| styleOfPlay |
direct, physical running
ⓘ
playmaking second five-eighth ⓘ |
| superRugbyDebut | 2003 ⓘ |
| superRugbyTeam |
Blues
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Highlanders NERFINISHED ⓘ Hurricanes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamNickname | All Blacks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weight | about 108 kg ⓘ |
| worldCupWinner |
2011 Rugby World Cup
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
2015 Rugby World Cup ⓘ |
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: Ma'a Nonu Description of subject: Ma'a Nonu is a powerful New Zealand rugby union centre renowned for his long and successful career with the All Blacks and in Super Rugby.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.