Burress
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Burress is the surname of former American NFL wide receiver Plaxico Burress, known for his time with the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Burress canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1093045 — 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: Burress Context triple: [Plaxico Burress, familyName, Burress]
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A.
Barr
Barr is a surname and place name of Scottish and Irish origin, associated with various towns, geographic features, and notable individuals.
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B.
Brennan
Brennan is a surname most prominently associated with William J. Brennan Jr., a long-serving and influential Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court known for his progressive jurisprudence.
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C.
Bedell
Bedell is the distinctive middle name of Walter Bedell Smith, a prominent U.S. Army general and diplomat who served as Dwight D. Eisenhower’s chief of staff during World War II and later as Director of Central Intelligence.
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D.
Bennett
Bennett is a common English-language surname of Anglo-Norman origin borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, arts, and sciences.
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E.
Bradley
Bradley is the given first name of Brad Stevens, an American professional basketball executive and former head coach of the Boston Celtics.
- 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: Burress Target entity description: Burress is the surname of former American NFL wide receiver Plaxico Burress, known for his time with the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants.
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A.
Barr
Barr is a surname and place name of Scottish and Irish origin, associated with various towns, geographic features, and notable individuals.
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B.
Brennan
Brennan is a surname most prominently associated with William J. Brennan Jr., a long-serving and influential Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court known for his progressive jurisprudence.
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C.
Bedell
Bedell is the distinctive middle name of Walter Bedell Smith, a prominent U.S. Army general and diplomat who served as Dwight D. Eisenhower’s chief of staff during World War II and later as Director of Central Intelligence.
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D.
Bennett
Bennett is a common English-language surname of Anglo-Norman origin borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, arts, and sciences.
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E.
Bradley
Bradley is the given first name of Brad Stevens, an American professional basketball executive and former head coach of the Boston Celtics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
ⓘ
family name ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Norfolk, Virginia, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Norfolk, Virginia
|
| collegeAttended |
Michigan State University
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan State College
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1977-08-12 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Pittsburgh Steelers ⓘ |
| familyName | Burress ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName |
Plaxico
ⓘ
linked to:
Plaxico Burress
|
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| notableFor | winning Super Bowl XLII with the New York Giants ⓘ |
| occupation | American football wide receiver ⓘ |
| playedFor |
New York Giants
ⓘ
New York Jets ⓘ Pittsburgh Steelers ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | wide receiver ⓘ |
| scored | game-winning touchdown in Super Bowl XLII ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| usedBy | Plaxico Burress ⓘ |
| woreJerseyNumber |
17
ⓘ
80 ⓘ |
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: Burress Description of subject: Burress is the surname of former American NFL wide receiver Plaxico Burress, known for his time with the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Burress