Marcel de Souza
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Marcel de Souza is a former Brazilian professional basketball player known for his key role on Brazil’s national team during the 1970s and 1980s, including multiple Olympic and FIBA World Cup appearances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marcel de Souza canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6077785 — 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: Marcel de Souza Context triple: [Brazil men's national basketball team, notablePlayer, Marcel de Souza]
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A.
Tadeu Marroco
Tadeu Marroco is a Brazilian-born business executive who serves as the chief executive officer of British American Tobacco.
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B.
Jean Gomes
Jean Gomes is a leadership and performance expert known for co-authoring influential business books on productivity, well-being, and organizational change.
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C.
Horacio Oliveira
Horacio Oliveira is the introspective, alienated intellectual protagonist of Julio Cortázar’s novel "Rayuela" ("Hopscotch"), known for his existential wanderings through Paris and Buenos Aires.
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D.
Jorge Vieira
Jorge Vieira was a prominent Portuguese sculptor known for his modernist public artworks and abstract bronze figures displayed in urban spaces.
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E.
André Ventura
André Ventura is a Portuguese politician and former sports commentator best known as the founder and leader of the right-wing populist party Chega.
- 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: Marcel de Souza Target entity description: Marcel de Souza is a former Brazilian professional basketball player known for his key role on Brazil’s national team during the 1970s and 1980s, including multiple Olympic and FIBA World Cup appearances.
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A.
Tadeu Marroco
Tadeu Marroco is a Brazilian-born business executive who serves as the chief executive officer of British American Tobacco.
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B.
Jean Gomes
Jean Gomes is a leadership and performance expert known for co-authoring influential business books on productivity, well-being, and organizational change.
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C.
Horacio Oliveira
Horacio Oliveira is the introspective, alienated intellectual protagonist of Julio Cortázar’s novel "Rayuela" ("Hopscotch"), known for his existential wanderings through Paris and Buenos Aires.
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D.
Jorge Vieira
Jorge Vieira was a prominent Portuguese sculptor known for his modernist public artworks and abstract bronze figures displayed in urban spaces.
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E.
André Ventura
André Ventura is a Portuguese politician and former sports commentator best known as the founder and leader of the right-wing populist party Chega.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball player
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human ⓘ |
| careerStatus | retired ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Brazil ⓘ |
| familyName | de Souza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Marcel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Brazil men’s national basketball team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
key role on Brazil men’s national basketball team in the 1970s
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key role on Brazil men’s national basketball team in the 1980s ⓘ |
| occupation | professional basketball player ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1976 Summer Olympics
NERFINISHED
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1980 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ 1984 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ 1988 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ FIBA Basketball World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInLeague | Brazilian basketball league ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
shooting guard
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small forward ⓘ |
| representedCountryInSport | Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
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: Marcel de Souza Description of subject: Marcel de Souza is a former Brazilian professional basketball player known for his key role on Brazil’s national team during the 1970s and 1980s, including multiple Olympic and FIBA World Cup appearances.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.