Luka Modrić
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Luka Modrić is a Croatian midfield maestro renowned for his playmaking brilliance at Real Madrid and for leading Croatia to the 2018 World Cup final, where he won the tournament’s Golden Ball.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Luka Modrić canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1142543 — 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)
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Target entity: Luka Modrić Context triple: [Golden Ball, notableRecipientExample, Luka Modrić]
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A.
Zlatan Ibrahimović
Zlatan Ibrahimović is a prolific Swedish footballer renowned for his acrobatic goals, charismatic personality, and successful career at top European clubs and the Swedish national team.
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B.
Sebastian Giovinco
Sebastian Giovinco is an Italian attacking midfielder and forward renowned for his prolific goal-scoring and playmaking, particularly during his standout years in Major League Soccer.
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C.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese professional footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, known for his prolific goal-scoring, athleticism, and success with clubs and country.
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D.
Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Zidane is a legendary French footballer and former attacking midfielder renowned for his elegance, vision, and leadership, who starred for clubs like Juventus and Real Madrid and later became a highly successful manager.
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E.
Andrés Iniesta
Andrés Iniesta is a legendary Spanish midfielder renowned for his vision, technique, and decisive performances for FC Barcelona and the Spanish national team, including scoring the winning goal in the 2010 World Cup final.
- 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: Luka Modrić Target entity description: Luka Modrić is a Croatian midfield maestro renowned for his playmaking brilliance at Real Madrid and for leading Croatia to the 2018 World Cup final, where he won the tournament’s Golden Ball.
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A.
Zlatan Ibrahimović
Zlatan Ibrahimović is a prolific Swedish footballer renowned for his acrobatic goals, charismatic personality, and successful career at top European clubs and the Swedish national team.
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B.
Sebastian Giovinco
Sebastian Giovinco is an Italian attacking midfielder and forward renowned for his prolific goal-scoring and playmaking, particularly during his standout years in Major League Soccer.
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C.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese professional footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, known for his prolific goal-scoring, athleticism, and success with clubs and country.
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D.
Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Zidane is a legendary French footballer and former attacking midfielder renowned for his elegance, vision, and leadership, who starred for clubs like Juventus and Real Madrid and later became a highly successful manager.
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E.
Andrés Iniesta
Andrés Iniesta is a legendary Spanish midfielder renowned for his vision, technique, and decisive performances for FC Barcelona and the Spanish national team, including scoring the winning goal in the 2010 World Cup final.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football midfielder
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human ⓘ professional footballer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
FIFA World Cup Golden Ball
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surface form:
2018 FIFA World Cup Golden Ball
Ballon d'Or ⓘ Croatian Footballer of the Year ⓘ FIFA FIFPro World XI selection ⓘ
surface form:
FIFA FIFPro World XI
The Best FIFA Men's Player ⓘ UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season ⓘ UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award ⓘ |
| captainOf | Croatia national football team ⓘ |
| citizenship | Croatia ⓘ |
| clubNumber | 10 ⓘ |
| competitionParticipatedIn |
2006 FIFA World Cup
ⓘ
surface form:
FIFA World Cup 2006
2014 FIFA World Cup ⓘ
surface form:
FIFA World Cup 2014
2018 FIFA World Cup ⓘ
surface form:
FIFA World Cup 2018
2022 FIFA World Cup ⓘ
surface form:
FIFA World Cup 2022
UEFA Euro 2008 ⓘ UEFA Euro 2012 ⓘ UEFA Euro 2016 ⓘ UEFA Euro 2020 ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Croatia ⓘ |
| currentClub | Real Madrid CF ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1985-09-09 ⓘ |
| familyName | Modrić ⓘ |
| fullName | Luka Modrić self-link ⓘ |
| givenName | Luka ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leading Croatia to the 2018 FIFA World Cup final
ⓘ
playmaking ability ⓘ vision and passing ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Croatian
ⓘ
English ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| leagueParticipatedIn | La Liga ⓘ |
| nationalTeam | Croatia national football team ⓘ |
| notableEvent | led Croatia to second place at the 2018 FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Zadar ⓘ |
| playedFor |
GNK Dinamo Zagreb
ⓘ
surface form:
Dinamo Zagreb
Inter Zaprešić ⓘ Real Madrid CF ⓘ Tottenham Hotspur F.C. ⓘ
surface form:
Tottenham Hotspur FC
Zrinjski Mostar ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
attacking midfielder
ⓘ
central midfielder ⓘ defensive midfielder ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| styleOfPlay |
box-to-box midfielder
ⓘ
deep-lying playmaker ⓘ |
| teamAchievement |
Copa del Rey winner with Real Madrid
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Croatian First Football League champion with Dinamo Zagreb ⓘ FIFA Club World Cup winner with Real Madrid ⓘ La Liga champion with Real Madrid ⓘ UEFA Champions League winner with Real Madrid ⓘ |
| transferFrom |
Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
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surface form:
Tottenham Hotspur FC
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| transferTo | Real Madrid CF ⓘ |
| youthClub |
GNK Dinamo Zagreb
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surface form:
Dinamo Zagreb
NK Zadar ⓘ |
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: Luka Modrić Description of subject: Luka Modrić is a Croatian midfield maestro renowned for his playmaking brilliance at Real Madrid and for leading Croatia to the 2018 World Cup final, where he won the tournament’s Golden Ball.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
France vs Croatia (2018 FIFA World Cup Final)