Jack Lengyel
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Jack Lengyel is an American football coach best known for rebuilding Marshall University's football program after the 1970 plane crash, a story dramatized in the film "We Are Marshall."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jack Lengyel canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12769032 — 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: Jack Lengyel Context triple: [We Are Marshall, mainCharacter, Jack Lengyel]
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A.
Martin Jurow
Martin Jurow was an American film producer best known for his work on classic mid-20th-century Hollywood movies, including the iconic Audrey Hepburn film "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
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B.
Walter Scheib
Walter Scheib was an American chef best known for serving as the White House Executive Chef for the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.
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C.
Lew Cirne
Lew Cirne is a software entrepreneur and technologist best known as the founder of New Relic and a pioneer in application performance monitoring.
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D.
Walter Slezak
Walter Slezak was an Austrian-born character actor known for his versatile roles in Hollywood films and on Broadway, often portraying charming villains or comic foils.
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E.
Jack Telnack
Jack Telnack is an influential American automotive designer best known for leading Ford’s global design direction in the late 20th century, including several groundbreaking aerodynamic production cars.
- 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: Jack Lengyel Target entity description: Jack Lengyel is an American football coach best known for rebuilding Marshall University's football program after the 1970 plane crash, a story dramatized in the film "We Are Marshall."
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A.
Martin Jurow
Martin Jurow was an American film producer best known for his work on classic mid-20th-century Hollywood movies, including the iconic Audrey Hepburn film "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
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B.
Walter Scheib
Walter Scheib was an American chef best known for serving as the White House Executive Chef for the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.
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C.
Lew Cirne
Lew Cirne is a software entrepreneur and technologist best known as the founder of New Relic and a pioneer in application performance monitoring.
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D.
Walter Slezak
Walter Slezak was an Austrian-born character actor known for his versatile roles in Hollywood films and on Broadway, often portraying charming villains or comic foils.
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E.
Jack Telnack
Jack Telnack is an influential American automotive designer best known for leading Ford’s global design direction in the late 20th century, including several groundbreaking aerodynamic production cars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Akron University
ⓘ
linked to:
University of Akron
|
| employer |
College of Wooster
ⓘ
Marshall University ⓘ United States Naval Academy ⓘ |
| endTime | 1974 ⓘ |
| familyName | Lengyel ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | sports administration ⓘ |
| genreOfOccupation | college football coaching ⓘ |
| givenName | Jack ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Akron Zips football team (assistant coach)
ⓘ
linked to:
Akron Zips football team
Cornell Big Red football team (assistant coach) ⓘ
linked to:
Cornell Big Red football
Marshall Thundering Herd football team (head coach) ⓘ Wooster Fighting Scots football team (head coach) ⓘ
linked to:
Wooster Fighting Scots
|
| notableEvent | 1970 Marshall University football team plane crash aftermath ⓘ |
| notableWork | rebuilding Marshall University football program after 1970 plane crash ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
ⓘ
athletic director ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Matthew McConaughey ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
athletic director at United States Naval Academy
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head football coach at College of Wooster ⓘ head football coach at Marshall University ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| startTime | 1971 ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
film "We Are Marshall"
ⓘ
linked to:
We Are Marshall
|
| workLocation | Huntington, West Virginia ⓘ |
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: Jack Lengyel Description of subject: Jack Lengyel is an American football coach best known for rebuilding Marshall University's football program after the 1970 plane crash, a story dramatized in the film "We Are Marshall."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.