Danny Makkelie
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Danny Makkelie is a Dutch professional football referee who officiates at the highest levels of international and club competitions, including major UEFA and FIFA tournaments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Danny Makkelie canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5896459 — 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: Danny Makkelie Context triple: [Turkey vs Italy (UEFA Euro 2020 opening match), referee, Danny Makkelie]
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A.
Adam Pijnacker
Adam Pijnacker was a 17th-century Dutch painter known for his Italianate landscapes and association with the artistic community in Delft.
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B.
Chris de Weijer
Chris de Weijer is a Dutch architect best known as one of the founding partners of the internationally renowned architecture firm Mecanoo.
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C.
Jason de Vos
Jason de Vos is a retired Canadian professional soccer defender who captained the national team and later became a prominent soccer analyst and administrator.
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D.
Christian Huitema
Christian Huitema is a French computer scientist and Internet pioneer known for his influential work on networking protocols and IPv6 transition technologies.
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E.
Nick Schenk
Nick Schenk is an American screenwriter best known for writing the Clint Eastwood film "Gran Torino."
- 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: Danny Makkelie Target entity description: Danny Makkelie is a Dutch professional football referee who officiates at the highest levels of international and club competitions, including major UEFA and FIFA tournaments.
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A.
Adam Pijnacker
Adam Pijnacker was a 17th-century Dutch painter known for his Italianate landscapes and association with the artistic community in Delft.
-
B.
Chris de Weijer
Chris de Weijer is a Dutch architect best known as one of the founding partners of the internationally renowned architecture firm Mecanoo.
-
C.
Jason de Vos
Jason de Vos is a retired Canadian professional soccer defender who captained the national team and later became a prominent soccer analyst and administrator.
-
D.
Christian Huitema
Christian Huitema is a French computer scientist and Internet pioneer known for his influential work on networking protocols and IPv6 transition technologies.
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E.
Nick Schenk
Nick Schenk is an American screenwriter best known for writing the Clint Eastwood film "Gran Torino."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dutch football referee
ⓘ
association football referee ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| employer | Royal Dutch Football Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| isOnList | FIFA international referees list ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Dutch
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
FIFA referees
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
UEFA Elite referees group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Danny Makkelie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
officiating high-profile FIFA matches
ⓘ
officiating high-profile UEFA matches ⓘ |
| occupation |
football referee
ⓘ
police inspector ⓘ |
| refereeingConfederation |
FIFA
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
UEFA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refereesInCompetition |
FIFA Club World Cup
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
FIFA World Cup qualifiers NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Champions League NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Europa Conference League NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Europa League NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA European Championship qualifiers NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Nations League NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Super Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refereesInLeague | Eredivisie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | video assistant referee ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| workLocation | Netherlands 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: Danny Makkelie Description of subject: Danny Makkelie is a Dutch professional football referee who officiates at the highest levels of international and club competitions, including major UEFA and FIFA tournaments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Turkey vs Italy (UEFA Euro 2020 opening match)