Chris Amon
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Chris Amon was a highly talented New Zealand racing driver best known for his success in sports car racing and Formula One during the 1960s and 1970s.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chris Amon canonical | 3 |
| Christopher Arthur Amon | 1 |
| Manfeild Circuit Chris Amon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11492741 — 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: Chris Amon Context triple: [Bruce McLaren, teammateIn1966LeMansWin, Chris Amon]
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A.
Daniel Gurney
Daniel Gurney was a 19th-century English banker, antiquary, and genealogist from the prominent Gurney family of Norfolk.
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B.
Jim Clark
Jim Clark is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist best known for co-founding Netscape and Silicon Graphics, playing a pivotal role in the early commercial development of the internet and computer graphics.
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C.
Jim Clark
Jim Clark was a British film editor renowned for his work on numerous acclaimed movies across several decades, including major Hollywood and British productions.
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D.
Graham Hill
Graham Hill was a British racing driver who became a two-time Formula One World Champion and the only driver to win the Triple Crown of Motorsport (the Monaco Grand Prix, Indianapolis 500, and 24 Hours of Le Mans).
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E.
Bruce McLaren
Bruce McLaren was a New Zealand racing driver, engineer, and founder of the McLaren Formula One team, renowned for his contributions to motorsport both on and off the track.
- 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: Chris Amon Target entity description: Chris Amon was a highly talented New Zealand racing driver best known for his success in sports car racing and Formula One during the 1960s and 1970s.
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A.
Daniel Gurney
Daniel Gurney was a 19th-century English banker, antiquary, and genealogist from the prominent Gurney family of Norfolk.
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B.
Jim Clark
Jim Clark is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist best known for co-founding Netscape and Silicon Graphics, playing a pivotal role in the early commercial development of the internet and computer graphics.
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C.
Jim Clark
Jim Clark was a British film editor renowned for his work on numerous acclaimed movies across several decades, including major Hollywood and British productions.
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D.
Graham Hill
Graham Hill was a British racing driver who became a two-time Formula One World Champion and the only driver to win the Triple Crown of Motorsport (the Monaco Grand Prix, Indianapolis 500, and 24 Hours of Le Mans).
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E.
Bruce McLaren
Bruce McLaren was a New Zealand racing driver, engineer, and founder of the McLaren Formula One team, renowned for his contributions to motorsport both on and off the track.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Formula One driver
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New Zealander ⓘ human ⓘ racing driver ⓘ |
| basedIn | New Zealand ⓘ |
| carForLeMansWin |
Ford GT40 Mk II
ⓘ
linked to:
Ford GT40
|
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | New Zealand ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1943-07-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016-08-03 ⓘ |
| F1BestSeason |
1967
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1969 ⓘ |
| F1ChampionshipPoints | 83 ⓘ |
| F1DebutTeam | Lola ⓘ |
| F1FastestLaps | 3 ⓘ |
| F1GrandsPrixEntered | 96 ⓘ |
| F1GrandsPrixStarted | 96 ⓘ |
| F1Podiums | 11 ⓘ |
| F1PolePositions | 5 ⓘ |
| F1WorldDriversChampionshipBestFinish | 4th place ⓘ |
| familyName | Amon ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Formula One
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motorsport ⓘ sports car racing ⓘ |
| fullName |
Christopher Arthur Amon
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linked to:
Chris Amon
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| givenName | Christopher ⓘ |
| honouredBy | New Zealand motorsport community ⓘ |
| knownFor | being one of the best F1 drivers never to win a World Championship Grand Prix ⓘ |
| laterOccupation | farmer ⓘ |
| madeF1DebutInSeason | 1963 ⓘ |
| nickname | unluckiest man in Formula One ⓘ |
| notableFor |
success in sports car racing
ⓘ
talent in Formula One during the 1960s and 1970s ⓘ |
| occupation | racing driver ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Formula One World Championship
ⓘ
linked to:
Formula One
World Sportscar Championship ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Bulls, New Zealand
ⓘ
linked to:
Bulls
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| placeOfDeath |
Rotorua, New Zealand
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linked to:
Rotorua
|
| racedForTeam |
BRM
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Ensign ⓘ Ferrari ⓘ Ford (sports cars) ⓘ
linked to:
Ford (touring car programs)
March Engineering ⓘ Matra ⓘ Porsche (sports cars) ⓘ
linked to:
Porsche
Tecno ⓘ
linked to:
Infinix
Tyrrell Racing ⓘ
linked to:
Tyrrell Racing Organisation (historical)
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| retiredFromRacing | 1977 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| teamForLeMansWin | Ford ⓘ |
| wonRace |
1966 24 Hours of Le Mans
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linked to:
24 Hours of Le Mans
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| wonRaceWithTeammate | Bruce McLaren ⓘ |
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: Chris Amon Description of subject: Chris Amon was a highly talented New Zealand racing driver best known for his success in sports car racing and Formula One during the 1960s and 1970s.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Chris Amon
linked to: Chris Amon