Matthijs de Ligt
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Matthijs de Ligt is a Dutch professional footballer, known as a highly rated central defender who has played for clubs such as Ajax, Juventus, and Bayern Munich as well as the Netherlands national team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matthijs de Ligt canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6649790 — 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: Matthijs de Ligt Context triple: [Kopa Trophy, notableWinner, Matthijs de Ligt]
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A.
Wim van de Donk
Wim van de Donk is a Dutch academic and public administrator known for his leadership roles in higher education and government, including serving as rector magnificus of Tilburg University and as King’s Commissioner in the province of North Brabant.
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B.
Den Bommel
Den Bommel is a small village in the Dutch province of South Holland, located on the island of Goeree-Overflakkee.
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C.
Jude Bellingham
Jude Bellingham is an English midfield prodigy for Real Madrid and the national team, renowned for his all-action style, maturity beyond his years, and decisive performances in major competitions.
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D.
Dries Mertens
Dries Mertens is a Belgian forward renowned for his prolific goal-scoring and creative play, particularly during his successful spell in Serie A with Napoli.
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E.
Enzo Fernández
Enzo Fernández is an Argentine central midfielder renowned for his dynamic playmaking and ball-winning abilities, who rose to global prominence with standout performances for Argentina and top European clubs.
- 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: Matthijs de Ligt Target entity description: Matthijs de Ligt is a Dutch professional footballer, known as a highly rated central defender who has played for clubs such as Ajax, Juventus, and Bayern Munich as well as the Netherlands national team.
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A.
Wim van de Donk
Wim van de Donk is a Dutch academic and public administrator known for his leadership roles in higher education and government, including serving as rector magnificus of Tilburg University and as King’s Commissioner in the province of North Brabant.
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B.
Den Bommel
Den Bommel is a small village in the Dutch province of South Holland, located on the island of Goeree-Overflakkee.
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C.
Jude Bellingham
Jude Bellingham is an English midfield prodigy for Real Madrid and the national team, renowned for his all-action style, maturity beyond his years, and decisive performances in major competitions.
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D.
Dries Mertens
Dries Mertens is a Belgian forward renowned for his prolific goal-scoring and creative play, particularly during his successful spell in Serie A with Napoli.
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E.
Enzo Fernández
Enzo Fernández is an Argentine central midfielder renowned for his dynamic playmaking and ball-winning abilities, who rose to global prominence with standout performances for Argentina and top European clubs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
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human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Golden Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| captained | Ajax NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1999-08-12 ⓘ |
| dominantFoot | right ⓘ |
| familyName | de Ligt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Matthijs de Ligt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Matthijs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPlayedInCountry |
Germany
NERFINISHED
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Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole | defender ⓘ |
| hasWon |
Bundesliga title with Bayern Munich
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Coppa Italia with Juventus NERFINISHED ⓘ DFL-Supercup with Bayern Munich NERFINISHED ⓘ Eredivisie title with Ajax ⓘ KNVB Cup with Ajax NERFINISHED ⓘ Serie A title with Juventus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
aerial ability
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ball-playing skills as a centre-back ⓘ defensive leadership ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Dutch ⓘ |
| leagueParticipatedIn |
Bundesliga
NERFINISHED
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Eredivisie NERFINISHED ⓘ Serie A NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Ajax
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
FC Bayern Munich NERFINISHED ⓘ Jong Ajax NERFINISHED ⓘ Juventus FC NERFINISHED ⓘ Netherlands national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Dutch ⓘ |
| occupation | professional footballer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
FIFA World Cup
NERFINISHED
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UEFA Champions League NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Europa League NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA European Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ UEFA Nations League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Leiderdorp, Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsInPosition | central defender ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | centre-back ⓘ |
| representsNationalTeam | Netherlands national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| shirtNumber | 4 ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| youthClub |
Ajax
NERFINISHED
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FC Abcoude 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: Matthijs de Ligt Description of subject: Matthijs de Ligt is a Dutch professional footballer, known as a highly rated central defender who has played for clubs such as Ajax, Juventus, and Bayern Munich as well as the Netherlands national team.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.