NEC Nijmegen
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NEC Nijmegen is a professional Dutch football club based in Nijmegen that competes in the country's top leagues and has developed and featured several notable players and managers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NEC Nijmegen canonical | 8 |
| NEC Nijmegen Youth Academy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11590505 — 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: NEC Nijmegen Context triple: [Guus Hiddink, playedFor, NEC Nijmegen]
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A.
Buitenhof
Buitenhof is a residential neighborhood located in the Dutch municipality of Leiderdorp in South Holland.
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B.
Heerenveen
Heerenveen is a Dutch town in the province of Friesland, known for its speed skating arena Thialf and its football club SC Heerenveen.
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C.
Nijmegen Quarter
Nijmegen Quarter was a historical administrative region centered around the city of Nijmegen within the medieval Duchy of Guelders in the Low Countries.
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D.
Oudenbosch
Oudenbosch is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant, known for its striking basilica modeled after St. Peter's in Rome.
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E.
Nijmegen
Nijmegen is a historic Dutch city near the German border that played a crucial strategic role during World War II, particularly in the Allied advance in 1944.
- 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: NEC Nijmegen Target entity description: NEC Nijmegen is a professional Dutch football club based in Nijmegen that competes in the country's top leagues and has developed and featured several notable players and managers.
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A.
Buitenhof
Buitenhof is a residential neighborhood located in the Dutch municipality of Leiderdorp in South Holland.
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B.
Heerenveen
Heerenveen is a Dutch town in the province of Friesland, known for its speed skating arena Thialf and its football club SC Heerenveen.
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C.
Nijmegen Quarter
Nijmegen Quarter was a historical administrative region centered around the city of Nijmegen within the medieval Duchy of Guelders in the Low Countries.
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D.
Oudenbosch
Oudenbosch is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant, known for its striking basilica modeled after St. Peter's in Rome.
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E.
Nijmegen
Nijmegen is a historic Dutch city near the German border that played a crucial strategic role during World War II, particularly in the Allied advance in 1944.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
football club
ⓘ
professional sports team ⓘ |
| basedIn | Nijmegen ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | top division ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| derby | Gelderse Derby ⓘ |
| developsPlayersFor | professional football ⓘ |
| foundedAs |
Eendracht
ⓘ
NEC ⓘ |
| gender | men's team ⓘ |
| governingBody | Royal Dutch Football Association ⓘ |
| hasNotableManager |
Alex Pastoor
ⓘ
Mario Been ⓘ Ron de Groot ⓘ |
| hasNotablePlayer |
Arjen Robben
ⓘ
Björn Vleminckx ⓘ Johnsen Navarone Foor ⓘ Lasse Schöne ⓘ Leroy George ⓘ |
| hasProfessionalStatus | true ⓘ |
| hasRivalryWith | Vitesse Arnhem ⓘ |
| hasSupporterBaseIn |
Gelderland
ⓘ
Nijmegen ⓘ |
| hasYouthAcademy |
NEC Nijmegen Youth Academy
ⓘ
linked to:
NEC Nijmegen
|
| homeCity | Nijmegen ⓘ |
| homeStadium | Goffertstadion ⓘ |
| kitColorHome |
black
ⓘ
green ⓘ red ⓘ |
| league | Eredivisie ⓘ |
| location | Gelderland ⓘ |
| nickname |
N.E.C.
ⓘ
NEC ⓘ |
| participatesIn |
Eredivisie
ⓘ
KNVB Cup ⓘ |
| playsHomeMatchesAt | Goffertstadion ⓘ |
| shortName | NEC ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| type | club team ⓘ |
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: NEC Nijmegen Description of subject: NEC Nijmegen is a professional Dutch football club based in Nijmegen that competes in the country's top leagues and has developed and featured several notable players and managers.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: NEC Nijmegen