Lance Armstrong
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Lance Armstrong is an American former professional road racing cyclist best known for winning seven consecutive Tour de France titles, later stripped due to a doping scandal.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lance Armstrong canonical | 6 |
| Lance Edward Armstrong | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3456149 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Lance Armstrong Context triple: [Prince of Asturias Award for Sports, hasLaureate, Lance Armstrong]
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A.
Bill Armstrong
Bill Armstrong is an NHL executive best known as the general manager responsible for overseeing hockey operations and roster decisions for the Arizona Coyotes.
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B.
Scott Armstrong
Scott Armstrong is an American journalist and author known for his investigative reporting and coauthoring influential books on U.S. government and the Supreme Court.
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C.
Baron Armstrong
Baron Armstrong is a hereditary title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created for the eminent Victorian industrialist and armaments manufacturer William Armstrong.
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D.
Miguel Indurain
Miguel Indurain is a Spanish former professional cyclist renowned for dominating road racing in the early 1990s, including a record run of consecutive Tour de France victories.
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E.
Eddy Merckx
Eddy Merckx is a legendary Belgian cyclist widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time, known for his dominance in Grand Tours and one-day classics during the 1960s and 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Lance Armstrong Target entity description: Lance Armstrong is an American former professional road racing cyclist best known for winning seven consecutive Tour de France titles, later stripped due to a doping scandal.
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A.
Bill Armstrong
Bill Armstrong is an NHL executive best known as the general manager responsible for overseeing hockey operations and roster decisions for the Arizona Coyotes.
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B.
Scott Armstrong
Scott Armstrong is an American journalist and author known for his investigative reporting and coauthoring influential books on U.S. government and the Supreme Court.
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C.
Baron Armstrong
Baron Armstrong is a hereditary title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created for the eminent Victorian industrialist and armaments manufacturer William Armstrong.
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D.
Miguel Indurain
Miguel Indurain is a Spanish former professional cyclist renowned for dominating road racing in the early 1990s, including a record run of consecutive Tour de France victories.
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E.
Eddy Merckx
Eddy Merckx is a legendary Belgian cyclist widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time, known for his dominance in Grand Tours and one-day classics during the 1960s and 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former professional cyclist
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human ⓘ |
| admittedToDoping | true ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Lance Gunderson ⓘ |
| bannedFromSport | lifetime ban from Olympic sports ⓘ |
| children |
Grace Armstrong
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Isabelle Armstrong ⓘ Luke Armstrong ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1971-09-18 ⓘ |
| diagnosedWith | testicular cancer ⓘ |
| discipline | road ⓘ |
| dopingAdmissionContext | television interview with Oprah Winfrey ⓘ |
| dopingAdmissionYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| familyName | Armstrong ⓘ |
| founded | Livestrong Foundation ⓘ |
| fullName |
Lance Armstrong
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Lance Edward Armstrong
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Lance ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being stripped of Tour de France titles for doping
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high-profile doping scandal ⓘ winning seven consecutive Tour de France titles ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 2003 ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1998 ⓘ |
| marriedTo | Kristin Richard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
road racing cyclist
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triathlete ⓘ |
| olympicMedal | bronze medal in road time trial at 2000 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| olympicMedalStatus | bronze medal later stripped ⓘ |
| partner | Sheryl Crow ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Plano, Texas
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surface form:
Plano, Texas, United States
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| residence | Austin, Texas, United States ⓘ |
| retired | 2011 ⓘ |
| role | rider ⓘ |
| sport |
road bicycle racing
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triathlon ⓘ |
| subjectOf | USADA investigation into doping ⓘ |
| team |
Nur-Sultan
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surface form:
Astana
Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team ⓘ Team RadioShack ⓘ US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team ⓘ |
| tourDeFranceTitlesStripped | 7 ⓘ |
| tourDeFranceWinningYears |
1999
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2000 ⓘ 2001 ⓘ 2002 ⓘ 2003 ⓘ 2004 ⓘ 2005 ⓘ |
| tourDeFranceWins | 7 ⓘ |
| turnedProfessional | 1992 ⓘ |
| yearOfCancerDiagnosis | 1996 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Lance Armstrong Description of subject: Lance Armstrong is an American former professional road racing cyclist best known for winning seven consecutive Tour de France titles, later stripped due to a doping scandal.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lance Edward Armstrong