sports pro_athlete - freebase-schema/freebase GitHub Wiki

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An athlete is a person who participates in a sport for personal fitness (or any other reason) or as part of an amateur or professional competition or contest.

• Athletes on a team (e.g.: Yao Ming, Footballer David Silva)

• Athletes who compete alone (e.g.: Professional snowboarder and skateboarder Shaun White, logroller J. R. Salzman, and ice skater Viktor Petrenko)

• Amateur Olympic athletes (e.g.: Olympic rower, Jamie Schroeder, Curler Anette Norberg)

• Also type as Olympic Athlete

• Amateur athletes with no Olympic experience (e.g.: Roller Derby skater Joan Weston)

• University athletes (e.g.: Maya Moore of the UConn Huskies, Akbar Ansari of the Cambridge University Cricket Club)

• Also use the appropriate sport type, such as Basketball player or Cricket player

• People involved in sports that require the use of machinery, such as motor-sports (e.g.: Danica Patrick, Dale Earnhardt, Mark Webber)

• People with athletic hobbies (e.g.: President Obama, who plays basketball occasionally)

• People involved in entertainment based on sporting events (e.g.: Harlem Globetrotter George Bell)

• People involved in athletic competitions (e.g.: Champion logroller J.R. Salzman, Caber tosser Bill Anderson)

• Animals (e.g.: Seabiscuit)

• Type as Organism

• Teams (e.g.: Manchester United Football Club)

• Type as Sports Team

• People not participating in a sport (e.g.: Professional wrestler "The Rock" Johnson, Competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi)

• These people may have hobbies that make them an athlete, but their non-sport activities should not be part of the athlete schema

• Athlete Identity Criteria