Which athletes AI models name most

22 athletes · measured 5 August 2026 · Claude 4.5, ChatGPT (GPT-5), Gemini 2.5

Ranked on the broad index — every artist here answered the same wide question, which is what makes these comparable. Each entity page also carries its score within its own market. Bars are scaled to the 0–93 range shown, not to 0.

This board ranks 22 athletes by how often ChatGPT and Gemini name them in answers to category questions that never mention them by name. Every score comes from the run of 5 August 2026; the prompt-by-prompt evidence behind each one is published on that artist's own page.

Leading today: Lionel Messi (87.5), LeBron James (84.0), Serena Williams (74.5). Scores run from 87.5 at the top to 7.0 at the bottom, so every artist on this board is named at least sometimes.

A high score does not mean an artist is better, bigger or more famous — it means the models reach for it first when asked a broad question, which is what this index measures and all it measures.

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Rank
Artist
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
GEMINI
30-day trend
Index / 100
1
Lionel Messi
Athlete · AR
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
85.0
GEMINI
90.0
First run
87.5/100
2
LeBron James
Athlete · US
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
89.0
GEMINI
79.0
First run
84.0/100
6
Serena Williams
Athlete · US
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
93.0
GEMINI
56.0
First run
74.5/100
8
Simone Biles
Athlete · US
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
63.0
GEMINI
82.0
First run
72.5/100
14
Novak Djokovic
Athlete · RS
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
68.0
GEMINI
60.0
First run
64.0/100
15
Cristiano Ronaldo
Athlete · PT
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
62.0
GEMINI
63.0
First run
62.5/100
21
Roger Federer
Athlete · CH
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
53.0
GEMINI
50.0
First run
51.5/100
25
Shohei Ohtani
Athlete · JP
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
27.0
GEMINI
59.0
First run
43.0/100
27
Stephen Curry
Athlete · US
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
41.0
GEMINI
43.0
First run
42.0/100
29
Max Verstappen
Athlete · NL
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
30.0
GEMINI
52.0
First run
41.0/100
30
Kylian Mbappé
Athlete · FR
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
31.0
GEMINI
48.0
First run
39.5/100
31
Lewis Hamilton
Athlete · GB
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
36.0
GEMINI
43.0
First run
39.5/100
38
Virat Kohli
Athlete · IN
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
40.0
GEMINI
33.0
First run
36.5/100
52
Erling Haaland
Athlete · NO
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
24.0
GEMINI
37.0
First run
30.5/100
54
Rafael Nadal
Athlete · ES
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
38.0
GEMINI
22.0
First run
30.0/100
58
Katie Ledecky
Athlete · US
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
16.0
GEMINI
41.0
First run
28.5/100
59
Patrick Mahomes
Athlete · US
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
20.0
GEMINI
37.0
First run
28.5/100
70
David Beckham
Athlete · GB
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
24.0
GEMINI
22.0
First run
23.0/100
71
Kevin Durant
Athlete · US
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
30.0
GEMINI
16.0
First run
23.0/100
74
Neymar
Athlete · BR
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
25.0
GEMINI
20.0
First run
22.5/100
109
Coco Gauff
Athlete · US
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
0.0
GEMINI
20.0
First run
10.0/100
120
Lando Norris
Athlete · GB
CLAUDE
CHATGPT
0.0
GEMINI
14.0
First run
7.0/100
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