Sam Whitelock
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Sam Whitelock is a New Zealand rugby union lock renowned for his long and highly successful career with the All Blacks and in Super Rugby.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sam Whitelock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9774923 — 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: Sam Whitelock Context triple: [Crusaders, notablePlayerProduced, Sam Whitelock]
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A.
Kieran Read
Kieran Read is a former New Zealand rugby union star who captained the All Blacks and is regarded as one of the world’s best number eights of his era.
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B.
Beauden Barrett
Beauden Barrett is a New Zealand rugby union star widely regarded as one of the world’s best fly-halves, known for his speed, playmaking, and prolific point-scoring for the All Blacks.
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C.
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck is a New Zealand professional rugby footballer renowned for his explosive running, footwork, and success in both rugby league and rugby union at international and club level.
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D.
Mitchell Pearce
Mitchell Pearce is an Australian professional rugby league halfback best known for his long NRL career with the Sydney Roosters and Newcastle Knights and for representing New South Wales in State of Origin.
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E.
Victor Matfield
Victor Matfield is a renowned South African rugby union lock, widely regarded as one of the greatest line-out specialists and key figures in the Springboks’ World Cup–winning era.
- 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: Sam Whitelock Target entity description: Sam Whitelock is a New Zealand rugby union lock renowned for his long and highly successful career with the All Blacks and in Super Rugby.
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A.
Kieran Read
Kieran Read is a former New Zealand rugby union star who captained the All Blacks and is regarded as one of the world’s best number eights of his era.
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B.
Beauden Barrett
Beauden Barrett is a New Zealand rugby union star widely regarded as one of the world’s best fly-halves, known for his speed, playmaking, and prolific point-scoring for the All Blacks.
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C.
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck is a New Zealand professional rugby footballer renowned for his explosive running, footwork, and success in both rugby league and rugby union at international and club level.
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D.
Mitchell Pearce
Mitchell Pearce is an Australian professional rugby league halfback best known for his long NRL career with the Sydney Roosters and Newcastle Knights and for representing New South Wales in State of Origin.
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E.
Victor Matfield
Victor Matfield is a renowned South African rugby union lock, widely regarded as one of the greatest line-out specialists and key figures in the Springboks’ World Cup–winning era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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rugby union player ⓘ |
| captained |
All Blacks
NERFINISHED
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Crusaders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | New Zealand ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1988-10-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Feilding High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Whitelock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Samuel Lawrence Whitelock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league |
Japan Rugby League One
NERFINISHED
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Super Rugby NERFINISHED ⓘ Top 14 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
All Blacks
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Canterbury NERFINISHED ⓘ Crusaders NERFINISHED ⓘ Kobelco Kobe Steelers NERFINISHED ⓘ New Zealand national rugby union team NERFINISHED ⓘ Pau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | New Zealander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership
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lineout ability ⓘ longevity in international rugby ⓘ work rate ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
2011 Rugby World Cup
NERFINISHED
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2015 Rugby World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ 2019 Rugby World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ 2023 Rugby World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
All Blacks 2011 Rugby World Cup squad
NERFINISHED
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All Blacks 2015 Rugby World Cup squad NERFINISHED ⓘ All Blacks 2019 Rugby World Cup squad NERFINISHED ⓘ All Blacks 2023 Rugby World Cup squad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Palmerston North NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Canterbury in New Zealand provincial rugby
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Crusaders in Super Rugby NERFINISHED ⓘ Kobelco Kobe Steelers in Japan ⓘ Section Paloise (Pau) in France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsForNationalTeam | New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsInPosition | second row ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | lock ⓘ |
| relative |
Adam Whitelock
NERFINISHED
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Allan Elsom NERFINISHED ⓘ George Whitelock NERFINISHED ⓘ Luke Whitelock NERFINISHED ⓘ Nelson Dalzell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Adam Whitelock
NERFINISHED
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George Whitelock NERFINISHED ⓘ Luke Whitelock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | rugby union ⓘ |
| winnerOf |
2011 Rugby World Cup
NERFINISHED
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2015 Rugby World Cup 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: Sam Whitelock Description of subject: Sam Whitelock is a New Zealand rugby union lock renowned for his long and highly successful career with the All Blacks and in Super Rugby.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.