Pat Tillman
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Pat Tillman was an American football player who left his NFL career with the Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the U.S. Army after 9/11 and was later killed in Afghanistan, becoming a symbol of sacrifice and service.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pat Tillman canonical | 18 |
| Patrick Daniel Tillman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1131413 — 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: Pat Tillman Context triple: [Arizona State Sun Devils football team, notableAlumnus, Pat Tillman]
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A.
Junior Seau
Junior Seau was a dominant, hard-hitting NFL linebacker and 12-time Pro Bowler widely regarded as one of the greatest defensive players in league history.
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B.
Marc Bulger
Marc Bulger is a former NFL quarterback best known for his Pro Bowl tenure with the St. Louis Rams in the 2000s.
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C.
Darnell Donerson
Darnell Donerson was the mother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically known for her murder in 2008.
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D.
T. J. Holmes
T. J. Holmes is an American journalist and television personality best known as a former CNN anchor and co-host of ABC’s “GMA3: What You Need to Know.”
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E.
John O’Neill
John O’Neill was a real-life FBI counterterrorism expert known for his early warnings about al-Qaeda and is prominently portrayed as a central figure in the book and TV adaptation "The Looming Tower."
- 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: Pat Tillman Target entity description: Pat Tillman was an American football player who left his NFL career with the Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the U.S. Army after 9/11 and was later killed in Afghanistan, becoming a symbol of sacrifice and service.
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A.
Junior Seau
Junior Seau was a dominant, hard-hitting NFL linebacker and 12-time Pro Bowler widely regarded as one of the greatest defensive players in league history.
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B.
Marc Bulger
Marc Bulger is a former NFL quarterback best known for his Pro Bowl tenure with the St. Louis Rams in the 2000s.
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C.
Darnell Donerson
Darnell Donerson was the mother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically known for her murder in 2008.
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D.
T. J. Holmes
T. J. Holmes is an American journalist and television personality best known as a former CNN anchor and co-host of ABC’s “GMA3: What You Need to Know.”
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E.
John O’Neill
John O’Neill was a real-life FBI counterterrorism expert known for his early warnings about al-Qaeda and is prominently portrayed as a central figure in the book and TV adaptation "The Looming Tower."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Pat Tillman Description of subject: Pat Tillman was an American football player who left his NFL career with the Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the U.S. Army after 9/11 and was later killed in Afghanistan, becoming a symbol of sacrifice and service.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Pat Tillman