David Seaman
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David Seaman is a former English professional footballer best known as Arsenal and England’s first-choice goalkeeper during the 1990s and early 2000s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Seaman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13272074 — 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 Seaman Context triple: [FA Cup 1997–98 with Arsenal F.C., goalkeeper, David Seaman]
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A.
Ashley Cole
Ashley Cole is a former English professional footballer widely regarded as one of the best left-backs of his generation, known for his success with Arsenal, Chelsea, and the England national team.
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B.
Matt Le Tissier
Matt Le Tissier is a former English attacking midfielder renowned for his exceptional technical skill, creativity, and long-range goals, spent almost his entire career at Southampton, and is widely regarded as one of the most gifted players of his generation.
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C.
Peter Beardsley
Peter Beardsley is a former English footballer best known as a creative forward for clubs such as Newcastle United, Liverpool, and the England national team.
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D.
Tony Adams
Tony Adams is a legendary former English central defender who captained Arsenal and the England national team, renowned for his leadership, longevity, and success during Arsenal’s dominant years in the late 20th century.
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E.
Tony Adams
Tony Adams was an American film and theater producer best known for his long-time collaboration with director Blake Edwards on movies such as the Pink Panther series and Victor/Victoria.
- 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 Seaman Target entity description: David Seaman is a former English professional footballer best known as Arsenal and England’s first-choice goalkeeper during the 1990s and early 2000s.
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A.
Ashley Cole
Ashley Cole is a former English professional footballer widely regarded as one of the best left-backs of his generation, known for his success with Arsenal, Chelsea, and the England national team.
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B.
Matt Le Tissier
Matt Le Tissier is a former English attacking midfielder renowned for his exceptional technical skill, creativity, and long-range goals, spent almost his entire career at Southampton, and is widely regarded as one of the most gifted players of his generation.
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C.
Peter Beardsley
Peter Beardsley is a former English footballer best known as a creative forward for clubs such as Newcastle United, Liverpool, and the England national team.
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D.
Tony Adams
Tony Adams is a legendary former English central defender who captained Arsenal and the England national team, renowned for his leadership, longevity, and success during Arsenal’s dominant years in the late 20th century.
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E.
Tony Adams
Tony Adams is a former American football quarterback best known for his play in the World Football League and later in the NFL during the 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
ⓘ
goalkeeper ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2004 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1981 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Safe Hands ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Member of the Order of the British Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestKnownFor |
being Arsenal’s first-choice goalkeeper in the 1990s
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being England’s first-choice goalkeeper in the 1990s and early 2000s ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | England ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1963-09-19 ⓘ |
| familyName | Seaman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | David Andrew Seaman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height | 191 cm ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| nationalTeam |
England national football team
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
England under-21 national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | conceding Ronaldinho’s free-kick goal at 2002 FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
| notableWork | long-term service as Arsenal first-choice goalkeeper ⓘ |
| occupation |
goalkeeping coach
ⓘ
television personality ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Rotherham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Arsenal F.C.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Birmingham City F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Leeds United F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Manchester City F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Peterborough United F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Queens Park Rangers F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInTournament |
1998 FIFA World Cup
NERFINISHED
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2002 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Euro 1996 NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Euro 2000 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | goalkeeper ⓘ |
| retiredFromSport | association football ⓘ |
| shirtNumber | 1 ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| spouse |
Debbie Rodgers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frankie Poultney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wonCompetition |
European Cup Winners’ Cup
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
FA Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ Football League Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ Premier 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: David Seaman Description of subject: David Seaman is a former English professional footballer best known as Arsenal and England’s first-choice goalkeeper during the 1990s and early 2000s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.