Guinness World Record for most professional football clubs played for
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The Guinness World Record for most professional football clubs played for recognizes the player who has represented the highest number of different professional teams during his career.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Guinness World Record for most professional football clubs played for canonical | 1 |
| Guinness World Records football records | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8407153 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Guinness World Record for most professional football clubs played for Context triple: [Sebastián Abreu, recordHeld, Guinness World Record for most professional football clubs played for]
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A.
FIFA Player of the Century (co-winner)
FIFA Player of the Century (co-winner) is a prestigious football award created by FIFA to honor one of the two players recognized as the greatest in the sport during the 20th century.
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B.
FIFPro
FIFPro is the worldwide representative organization for professional footballers, acting as their global union and advocacy body.
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C.
The FA Player
The FA Player is a free global streaming platform run by the English Football Association that offers live and on-demand coverage of women’s football, including the FA Women’s Super League.
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D.
NFFN
NFFN is the ICAO airport code for Nadi International Airport, the main international gateway to Fiji located on the island of Viti Levu.
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E.
UEFA Champions League top scorer
The UEFA Champions League top scorer award is given each season to the player who scores the most goals in Europe's premier club football competition.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Guinness World Record for most professional football clubs played for Target entity description: The Guinness World Record for most professional football clubs played for recognizes the player who has represented the highest number of different professional teams during his career.
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A.
FIFA Player of the Century (co-winner)
FIFA Player of the Century (co-winner) is a prestigious football award created by FIFA to honor one of the two players recognized as the greatest in the sport during the 20th century.
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B.
FIFPro
FIFPro is the worldwide representative organization for professional footballers, acting as their global union and advocacy body.
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C.
The FA Player
The FA Player is a free global streaming platform run by the English Football Association that offers live and on-demand coverage of women’s football, including the FA Women’s Super League.
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D.
NFFN
NFFN is the ICAO airport code for Nadi International Airport, the main international gateway to Fiji located on the island of Viti Levu.
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E.
UEFA Champions League top scorer
The UEFA Champions League top scorer award is given each season to the player who scores the most goals in Europe's premier club football competition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Guinness World Record
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sports record ⓘ |
| appliesTo | individual players ⓘ |
| category |
football achievements
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sports achievements ⓘ |
| criterion | number of different professional football clubs represented by a player ⓘ |
| domain | professional sports ⓘ |
| field | association football ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
online database entry
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print publication entry ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Guinness World Records football records
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Guinness World Records sports records ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Guinness World Records ⓘ |
| measures | career club mobility of a professional footballer ⓘ |
| notableFor | highlighting journeyman footballers ⓘ |
| publisher |
Guinness World Records Limited
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linked to:
Guinness World Records
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| recordHolderType | professional footballer ⓘ |
| recordType | individual record ⓘ |
| requires |
documented playing contracts with professional clubs
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official appearances for professional clubs ⓘ verification by Guinness World Records ⓘ |
| scope |
men's professional football
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professional football clubs ⓘ |
| selectionCriteria | highest number of different professional clubs in official career ⓘ |
| sport | football ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Guinness World Records book
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linked to:
Guinness World Records
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| unitOfMeasurement | count of distinct professional clubs ⓘ |
| verificationMethod |
review of official club and league records
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review of player registration documents ⓘ |
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: Guinness World Record for most professional football clubs played for Description of subject: The Guinness World Record for most professional football clubs played for recognizes the player who has represented the highest number of different professional teams during his career.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Sebastián Abreu
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recordHeld
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Guinness World Record for most professional football clubs played for
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Guinness World Record for most professional football clubs played for
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isPartOf
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Guinness World Records football records
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linked to: Guinness World Record for most professional football clubs played for