Bogdan Dochev
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Bogdan Dochev was a Bulgarian football referee best known for serving as the assistant who validated Diego Maradona’s infamous “Hand of God” goal at the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bogdan Dochev canonical | 2 |
| Dochev | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12829728 — 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: Bogdan Dochev Context triple: [Hand of God goal, assistantReferee, Bogdan Dochev]
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A.
Dimitar Blagoev
Dimitar Blagoev was a Bulgarian political leader and theorist, known as the founder of the Bulgarian socialist movement and the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party.
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B.
Krasimir Balakov
Krasimir Balakov is a renowned Bulgarian attacking midfielder best known for his playmaking role in Bulgaria’s golden generation of the 1990s and his standout performances at the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
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C.
Dimităr Peshev
Dimităr Peshev was a Bulgarian politician and deputy speaker of parliament who played a key role in preventing the deportation of Bulgaria’s Jews during the Holocaust and was later imprisoned by the communist regime.
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D.
Emil Kostadinov
Emil Kostadinov is a former Bulgarian footballer best known as a prolific forward for both CSKA Sofia and the Bulgarian national team, notably helping Bulgaria qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
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E.
Ivan Bakayev
Ivan Bakayev was a Soviet Old Bolshevik and party official who became one of the prominent victims of Stalin’s Great Purge, executed after being tried in the infamous 1936 Moscow show trial known as the Trial of the Sixteen.
- 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: Bogdan Dochev Target entity description: Bogdan Dochev was a Bulgarian football referee best known for serving as the assistant who validated Diego Maradona’s infamous “Hand of God” goal at the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
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A.
Dimitar Blagoev
Dimitar Blagoev was a Bulgarian political leader and theorist, known as the founder of the Bulgarian socialist movement and the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party.
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B.
Krasimir Balakov
Krasimir Balakov is a renowned Bulgarian attacking midfielder best known for his playmaking role in Bulgaria’s golden generation of the 1990s and his standout performances at the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
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C.
Dimităr Peshev
Dimităr Peshev was a Bulgarian politician and deputy speaker of parliament who played a key role in preventing the deportation of Bulgaria’s Jews during the Holocaust and was later imprisoned by the communist regime.
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D.
Emil Kostadinov
Emil Kostadinov is a former Bulgarian footballer best known as a prolific forward for both CSKA Sofia and the Bulgarian national team, notably helping Bulgaria qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
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E.
Ivan Bakayev
Ivan Bakayev was a Soviet Old Bolshevik and party official who became one of the prominent victims of Stalin’s Great Purge, executed after being tried in the infamous 1936 Moscow show trial known as the Trial of the Sixteen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bulgarian person
ⓘ
association football referee ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Bulgaria ⓘ |
| employer |
Bulgarian football authorities
ⓘ
linked to:
Bulgarian Football Union
FIFA ⓘ |
| familyName |
Dochev
ⓘ
linked to:
Bogdan Dochev
|
| fieldOfWork | sports officiating ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Bogdan ⓘ |
| hasGenre | sports history figure ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Bulgarian
ⓘ
English ⓘ Russian ⓘ |
| hasReputation | controversial referee in World Cup history ⓘ |
| knownFor | controversial decision in the “Hand of God” incident ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Bulgarian referees community
ⓘ
linked to:
Bulgarian Football Union
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| name | Bogdan Dochev ⓘ |
| nationality | Bulgarian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being assistant referee in the 1986 FIFA World Cup quarter-final between Argentina and England
ⓘ
validating Diego Maradona’s “Hand of God” goal ⓘ |
| occupation |
association football assistant referee
ⓘ
football referee ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
1986 FIFA World Cup
ⓘ
1986 FIFA World Cup quarter-final Argentina vs England ⓘ |
| partOf |
FIFA World Cup referees
ⓘ
linked to:
FIFA international referees list
|
| role | assistant referee in 1986 FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Bulgaria
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ |
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: Bogdan Dochev Description of subject: Bogdan Dochev was a Bulgarian football referee best known for serving as the assistant who validated Diego Maradona’s infamous “Hand of God” goal at the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bogdan Dochev