Robbie Deans
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Robbie Deans is a New Zealand rugby union coach and former All Blacks fullback best known for his highly successful tenure with the Crusaders and later as head coach of the Australian national team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robbie Deans canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9774917 — 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: Robbie Deans Context triple: [Crusaders, notableFormerCoach, Robbie Deans]
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A.
Graham Henry
Graham Henry is a renowned New Zealand rugby union coach best known for leading the All Blacks to sustained dominance, including victory at the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
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B.
Steve Hansen
Steve Hansen is a highly successful New Zealand rugby union coach best known for leading the All Blacks to multiple Rugby World Cup titles and a dominant era in international rugby.
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C.
Brad Fittler
Brad Fittler is a former Australian rugby league star and coach, renowned as one of the game’s great playmakers and a long-serving representative for New South Wales and Australia.
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D.
Eddie Jones
Eddie Jones is an Australian rugby union coach renowned for leading multiple international teams, including England, to major tournament success with his tactical innovation and intense coaching style.
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E.
Eddie Jones
Eddie Jones was an American character actor best known for his supporting roles in film and television, including playing Clark Kent’s adoptive father Jonathan Kent on the TV series "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman."
- 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)
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Target entity: Robbie Deans Target entity description: Robbie Deans is a New Zealand rugby union coach and former All Blacks fullback best known for his highly successful tenure with the Crusaders and later as head coach of the Australian national team.
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A.
Graham Henry
Graham Henry is a renowned New Zealand rugby union coach best known for leading the All Blacks to sustained dominance, including victory at the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
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B.
Steve Hansen
Steve Hansen is a highly successful New Zealand rugby union coach best known for leading the All Blacks to multiple Rugby World Cup titles and a dominant era in international rugby.
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C.
Brad Fittler
Brad Fittler is a former Australian rugby league star and coach, renowned as one of the game’s great playmakers and a long-serving representative for New South Wales and Australia.
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D.
Eddie Jones
Eddie Jones is an Australian rugby union coach renowned for leading multiple international teams, including England, to major tournament success with his tactical innovation and intense coaching style.
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E.
Eddie Jones
Eddie Jones was an American character actor best known for his supporting roles in film and television, including playing Clark Kent’s adoptive father Jonathan Kent on the TV series "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former rugby union player
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human ⓘ rugby union coach ⓘ |
| championshipsWon | five Super Rugby titles as Crusaders head coach ⓘ |
| clubTeam |
Canterbury
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Crusaders ⓘ |
| coachedTeam |
Australia national rugby union team
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Barbarians ⓘ Crusaders ⓘ Panasonic Wild Knights ⓘ Saitama Wild Knights ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | New Zealand ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-09-04 ⓘ |
| education | Christchurch Boys' High School ⓘ |
| endTime |
Australia head coach 2013
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Crusaders head coach 2008 ⓘ |
| familyName | Deans ⓘ |
| fullName | Robert Maxwell Deans ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| leagueCoachedIn |
Super 12
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Super 14 ⓘ Super Rugby ⓘ Top League (Japan) ⓘ
linked to:
Japan Top League
|
| nationalTeam | New Zealand national rugby union team ⓘ |
| nationalTeamCaps | 5 ⓘ |
| nickname | Robbie ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | first foreign-born head coach of the Australia national rugby union team ⓘ |
| notableFor |
head coach of the Wallabies from 2008 to 2013
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successful tenure as Crusaders head coach ⓘ |
| occupation |
rugby union coach
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rugby union player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cheviot, New Zealand ⓘ |
| playedFor |
All Blacks
ⓘ
Canterbury provincial team ⓘ
linked to:
Canterbury rugby union team
New Zealand Colts ⓘ New Zealand Juniors ⓘ
linked to:
New Zealand Under-21
|
| positionPlayed |
first five-eighth
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fullback ⓘ |
| relative |
Bob Deans
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Bruce Deans ⓘ |
| role |
assistant coach of All Blacks
ⓘ
head coach of Australia national rugby union team ⓘ head coach of Crusaders ⓘ |
| sport | rugby union ⓘ |
| startTime |
Australia head coach 2008
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Crusaders head coach 2000 ⓘ |
| teamTitlesWonWith | Crusaders ⓘ |
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: Robbie Deans Description of subject: Robbie Deans is a New Zealand rugby union coach and former All Blacks fullback best known for his highly successful tenure with the Crusaders and later as head coach of the Australian national team.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.