Edson
E615610
Edson is the given first name of Pelé, the legendary Brazilian footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edson canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6729178 — 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: Edson Context triple: [Pelé, givenName, Edson]
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A.
Éder
Éder is a Portuguese footballer best known for scoring the extra-time winning goal that secured Portugal’s first major international trophy at UEFA Euro 2016.
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B.
Marcelo
Marcelo is a common Portuguese and Spanish given name, notably borne by figures such as Brazilian footballer Marcelo Vieira and former Portuguese Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano.
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C.
Adalberto
Adalberto is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in Romance-language countries as a variant of Albert or Alberto.
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D.
Marcio
Marcio is a masculine given name commonly used in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries, derived from the Latin name Marcius.
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E.
Andrade
Andrade is a common Portuguese and Spanish surname borne by numerous notable figures across fields such as sports, politics, and the arts.
- 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: Edson Target entity description: Edson is the given first name of Pelé, the legendary Brazilian footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.
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A.
Éder
Éder is a Portuguese footballer best known for scoring the extra-time winning goal that secured Portugal’s first major international trophy at UEFA Euro 2016.
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B.
Marcelo
Marcelo is a common Portuguese and Spanish given name, notably borne by figures such as Brazilian footballer Marcelo Vieira and former Portuguese Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano.
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C.
Adalberto
Adalberto is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in Romance-language countries as a variant of Albert or Alberto.
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D.
Marcio
Marcio is a masculine given name commonly used in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries, derived from the Latin name Marcius.
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E.
Andrade
Andrade is a common Portuguese and Spanish surname borne by numerous notable figures across fields such as sports, politics, and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
ⓘ
masculine given name ⓘ |
| hasEtymologyNote | sometimes considered a variant or influenced by the surname Edison ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Portuguese ⓘ |
| hasNameCategory | sports-related given name ⓘ |
| hasNameDayInBrazil | March 4 ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Edson Arantes do Nascimento
ⓘ
linked to:
Pelé
Edson Barboza ⓘ Edson Buddle ⓘ Edson Cholbi do Nascimento ⓘ Edson Álvarez ⓘ Pelé ⓘ |
| hasShortForm |
Ed
ⓘ
Eddie ⓘ Son ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Edison
ⓘ
Edsson ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWithCountry | Brazil ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWithOccupation | footballer ⓘ |
| isBirthNameOf | Pelé ⓘ |
| isUsedBy |
Edson Arantes do Nascimento
ⓘ
linked to:
Pelé
|
| usedInCountry |
Angola
ⓘ
Brazil ⓘ Mozambique ⓘ Portugal ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Edson Description of subject: Edson is the given first name of Pelé, the legendary Brazilian footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.