Ladislav Novák
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Ladislav Novák was a prominent Czechoslovak football defender and captain, best known for leading his national team to the 1962 FIFA World Cup final.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ladislav Novák canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11273731 — 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: Ladislav Novák Context triple: [Czechoslovakia national football team, notablePlayer, Ladislav Novák]
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A.
Jaromír Nohavica
Jaromír Nohavica is a renowned Czech singer-songwriter and poet known for his folk-inspired music and socially reflective lyrics.
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B.
Eduard Nápravník
Eduard Nápravník was a prominent 19th-century Czech-born conductor and composer who became a leading figure at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, championing Russian opera and symphonic music.
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C.
Pavel Janák
Pavel Janák was a prominent Czech architect and designer associated with Czech Cubism and later Functionalism, known for his innovative contributions to early 20th-century architecture and applied arts.
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D.
Viktor Pospíšil
Viktor Pospíšil is a conductor and music director known for his leadership at the Staatsoper Stuttgart.
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E.
Jaromír Blažejovský
Jaromír Blažejovský is a notable individual bearing the Czech given name Jaromír, recognized enough to be cited as an example of this name.
- 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: Ladislav Novák Target entity description: Ladislav Novák was a prominent Czechoslovak football defender and captain, best known for leading his national team to the 1962 FIFA World Cup final.
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A.
Jaromír Nohavica
Jaromír Nohavica is a renowned Czech singer-songwriter and poet known for his folk-inspired music and socially reflective lyrics.
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B.
Eduard Nápravník
Eduard Nápravník was a prominent 19th-century Czech-born conductor and composer who became a leading figure at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, championing Russian opera and symphonic music.
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C.
Pavel Janák
Pavel Janák was a prominent Czech architect and designer associated with Czech Cubism and later Functionalism, known for his innovative contributions to early 20th-century architecture and applied arts.
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D.
Viktor Pospíšil
Viktor Pospíšil is a conductor and music director known for his leadership at the Staatsoper Stuttgart.
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E.
Jaromír Blažejovský
Jaromír Blažejovský is a notable individual bearing the Czech given name Jaromír, recognized enough to be cited as an example of this name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
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football defender ⓘ football manager ⓘ human ⓘ |
| achievement | led Czechoslovakia to the 1962 FIFA World Cup final ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Louny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| captainOf | Czechoslovakia national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | illness ⓘ |
| clubAppearancesForDuklaPrague | 365 ⓘ |
| clubGoalsForDuklaPrague | 23 ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Czechoslovakia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Czech Republic
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Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Czech Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1931-12-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2011-03-21 ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
Czechoslovak football federation records
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FIFA records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Czech ⓘ |
| leagueParticipatedIn | Czechoslovak First League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managedTeam |
Czechoslovakia national football team
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dukla Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ K.S.C. Lokeren NERFINISHED ⓘ LASK NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Czechoslovakia national football team
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dukla Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationalTeamAppearances | 75 ⓘ |
| nationalTeamGoals | 1 ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Czech ⓘ |
| notableWork | captaining Czechoslovakia at the 1962 FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
| numberOfLeagueTitlesWithDuklaPrague | 8 GENERATED ⓘ |
| occupation |
football coach
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football player ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1954 FIFA World Cup
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
1958 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ 1962 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Louny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Ostrov nad Ohří NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedCareerEndYear | 1966 ⓘ |
| playedCareerStartYear | 1950 ⓘ |
| playedForClub | Dukla Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayedOnTeam | defender ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| shirtNumber | 3 ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| teamCaptainInTournament | 1962 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wonCompetition | Czechoslovak First League 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: Ladislav Novák Description of subject: Ladislav Novák was a prominent Czechoslovak football defender and captain, best known for leading his national team to the 1962 FIFA World Cup final.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.