Zack Steffen
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Zack Steffen is an American professional soccer goalkeeper known for his standout performances in Major League Soccer and his role with the United States national team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Zack Steffen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11734961 — 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)
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Target entity: Zack Steffen Context triple: [MLS Goalkeeper of the Year Award, hasRecipient, Zack Steffen]
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A.
Blake Swihart
Blake Swihart is an American former professional baseball catcher and utility player who spent several seasons in Major League Baseball, primarily with the Boston Red Sox.
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B.
Robin Lehner
Robin Lehner is a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender known for his NHL career and outspoken advocacy for mental health awareness.
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C.
Brad Guzan
Brad Guzan is an American professional soccer goalkeeper known for his long MLS career and for representing the United States national team, including at multiple major international tournaments.
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D.
Stefan Frei
Stefan Frei is a Swiss-American professional soccer goalkeeper best known for his standout performances with Seattle Sounders FC in Major League Soccer.
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E.
Emiliano Martínez
Emiliano Martínez is an Argentine professional goalkeeper renowned for his crucial role in Argentina's 2022 World Cup triumph and his standout performances in penalty shootouts.
- 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: Zack Steffen Target entity description: Zack Steffen is an American professional soccer goalkeeper known for his standout performances in Major League Soccer and his role with the United States national team.
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A.
Blake Swihart
Blake Swihart is an American former professional baseball catcher and utility player who spent several seasons in Major League Baseball, primarily with the Boston Red Sox.
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B.
Robin Lehner
Robin Lehner is a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender known for his NHL career and outspoken advocacy for mental health awareness.
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C.
Brad Guzan
Brad Guzan is an American professional soccer goalkeeper known for his long MLS career and for representing the United States national team, including at multiple major international tournaments.
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D.
Stefan Frei
Stefan Frei is a Swiss-American professional soccer goalkeeper best known for his standout performances with Seattle Sounders FC in Major League Soccer.
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E.
Emiliano Martínez
Emiliano Martínez is an Argentine professional goalkeeper renowned for his crucial role in Argentina's 2022 World Cup triumph and his standout performances in penalty shootouts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
ⓘ
goalkeeper ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
MLS Best XI
NERFINISHED
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MLS Goalkeeper of the Year Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collegeYears | 2013–2014 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1995-04-02 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Maryland, College Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Steffen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| footedness | right-footed ⓘ |
| fullName | Zackary Thomas Steffen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Zackary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
backup goalkeeper
ⓘ
starting goalkeeper ⓘ |
| height | 191 cm ⓘ |
| knownFor |
distribution from the back
ⓘ
shot-stopping ability ⓘ |
| leagueParticipatedIn |
Bundesliga
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Major League Soccer ⓘ Premier League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Colorado Rapids
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Columbus Crew 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Columbus Crew SC NERFINISHED ⓘ Fortuna Düsseldorf NERFINISHED ⓘ Manchester City F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ SC Freiburg II NERFINISHED ⓘ United States men's national soccer team NERFINISHED ⓘ United States under-20 national soccer team NERFINISHED ⓘ United States under-23 national soccer team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
goalkeeper for United States men's national soccer team in CONCACAF competitions
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standout performances for Columbus Crew SC in MLS ⓘ |
| occupation |
football goalkeeper
ⓘ
professional soccer player ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
CONCACAF Gold Cup
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Coatesville, Pennsylvania, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedCollegeSoccerFor | Maryland Terrapins men's soccer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsInLeague | Major League Soccer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | goalkeeper ⓘ |
| professionalDebutLeague | Major League Soccer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| shirtNumber | 22 ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| sportNumberOfPlayersOnTeam | 11 ⓘ |
| youthClub |
FC Delco
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Philadelphia Union Academy 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: Zack Steffen Description of subject: Zack Steffen is an American professional soccer goalkeeper known for his standout performances in Major League Soccer and his role with the United States national team.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.