Obdulio Varela
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Obdulio Varela was a legendary Uruguayan footballer and captain, best known for leading Uruguay to victory in the 1950 World Cup "Maracanazo" against Brazil.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Obdulio Varela canonical | 4 |
| Obdulio Jacinto Varela | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5314059 — 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: Obdulio Varela Context triple: [Uruguay national football team, famousPlayer, Obdulio Varela]
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A.
Raúl Otero
Raúl Otero was an architect known for his role in designing El Capitolio, the grand national capitol building in Havana, Cuba.
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B.
Luis Alberto Pardo
Luis Alberto Pardo was a Chilean naval officer best known for commanding the rescue of Ernest Shackleton’s stranded Endurance expedition from Elephant Island in 1916.
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C.
Humberto Delgado
Humberto Delgado was a prominent Portuguese Air Force general and outspoken opponent of the Estado Novo dictatorship, remembered as a key figure in Portugal’s democratic opposition.
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D.
Pedro Luis Lazo
Pedro Luis Lazo is a renowned Cuban baseball pitcher, widely regarded as one of the greatest hurlers in the history of Cuban baseball and a standout for both Pinar del Río and the Cuban national team.
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E.
Manuel Fidello
Manuel Fidello is a kind-hearted Portuguese fisherman who becomes a mentor and father figure to a spoiled rich boy in the 1937 film "Captains Courageous."
- 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: Obdulio Varela Target entity description: Obdulio Varela was a legendary Uruguayan footballer and captain, best known for leading Uruguay to victory in the 1950 World Cup "Maracanazo" against Brazil.
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A.
Raúl Otero
Raúl Otero was an architect known for his role in designing El Capitolio, the grand national capitol building in Havana, Cuba.
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B.
Luis Alberto Pardo
Luis Alberto Pardo was a Chilean naval officer best known for commanding the rescue of Ernest Shackleton’s stranded Endurance expedition from Elephant Island in 1916.
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C.
Humberto Delgado
Humberto Delgado was a prominent Portuguese Air Force general and outspoken opponent of the Estado Novo dictatorship, remembered as a key figure in Portugal’s democratic opposition.
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D.
Pedro Luis Lazo
Pedro Luis Lazo is a renowned Cuban baseball pitcher, widely regarded as one of the greatest hurlers in the history of Cuban baseball and a standout for both Pinar del Río and the Cuban national team.
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E.
Manuel Fidello
Manuel Fidello is a kind-hearted Portuguese fisherman who becomes a mentor and father figure to a spoiled rich boy in the 1937 film "Captains Courageous."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Uruguayan international footballer
ⓘ
association football player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedEvent | Maracanazo ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Uruguay ⓘ |
| captained | Uruguay national football team ⓘ |
| captainIn | 1950 FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Uruguay ⓘ |
| deathCountry | Uruguay ⓘ |
| familyName | Varela ⓘ |
| famousMatch | Uruguay vs Brazil, 16 July 1950, World Cup decider at Maracanã ⓘ |
| fullName |
Obdulio Jacinto Varela
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linked to:
Obdulio Varela
|
| givenName | Obdulio ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | professional footballer ⓘ |
| homeStadiumContext | Maracanã Stadium ⓘ |
| honouredAs | Uruguayan football legend ⓘ |
| influenced | later generations of Uruguayan footballers ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Spanish ⓘ |
| leagueParticipatedIn | Uruguayan Primera División ⓘ |
| legacy | symbol of Uruguayan footballing spirit and resilience ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Club Atlético Peñarol
ⓘ
linked to:
Peñarol
Club Atlético Wanderers ⓘ Deportivo Juventud (Uruguay) ⓘ Uruguay national football team ⓘ |
| nationality | Uruguayan ⓘ |
| nickname | El Negro Jefe ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being considered one of Uruguay’s greatest football captains
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captaining Uruguay in the 1950 World Cup final match against Brazil ⓘ leading Uruguay to victory over Brazil in the 1950 World Cup match known as the Maracanazo ⓘ |
| opponentInFamousMatch | Brazil national football team ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
1950 FIFA World Cup
ⓘ
1954 FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Montevideo ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Montevideo ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Montevideo Wanderers F.C.
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linked to:
Montevideo Wanderers
Peñarol ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
central midfielder
ⓘ
defensive midfielder ⓘ midfielder ⓘ |
| representedNationalTeam | Uruguay ⓘ |
| role | team captain ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| styleOfPlay |
leadership on the field
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strong defensive presence in midfield ⓘ |
| teamWon | 1950 FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Obdulio Varela Description of subject: Obdulio Varela was a legendary Uruguayan footballer and captain, best known for leading Uruguay to victory in the 1950 World Cup "Maracanazo" against Brazil.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Obdulio Varela