James William Johnson
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American football coach
National Football League coach
Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
college football coach
human
television sports analyst
James William Johnson is the American football coach and broadcaster better known as Jimmy Johnson, who led the Dallas Cowboys to two Super Bowl titles in the 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James William Johnson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T726083 — 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: James William Johnson Context triple: [Jimmy Johnson, fullName, James William Johnson]
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A.
Cornelius Johnson
Cornelius Johnson was an American high jumper who won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, setting an Olympic record and challenging Nazi racial ideology.
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B.
Otis Campbell
Otis Campbell is the lovable, frequently inebriated town drunk of Mayberry on the classic American television series "The Andy Griffith Show."
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C.
Roy Hinson
Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
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D.
Joseph McNeil
Joseph McNeil is an American civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped spark the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
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E.
Christopher Johnson
Christopher Johnson is an American businessman and member of the Johnson family who serves as a principal owner and executive of the New York Jets NFL franchise.
- 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: James William Johnson Target entity description: James William Johnson is the American football coach and broadcaster better known as Jimmy Johnson, who led the Dallas Cowboys to two Super Bowl titles in the 1990s.
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A.
Cornelius Johnson
Cornelius Johnson was an American high jumper who won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, setting an Olympic record and challenging Nazi racial ideology.
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B.
Otis Campbell
Otis Campbell is the lovable, frequently inebriated town drunk of Mayberry on the classic American television series "The Andy Griffith Show."
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C.
Roy Hinson
Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
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D.
Joseph McNeil
Joseph McNeil is an American civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped spark the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
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E.
Christopher Johnson
Christopher Johnson is an American businessman and member of the Johnson family who serves as a principal owner and executive of the New York Jets NFL franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
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National Football League coach ⓘ Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee ⓘ college football coach ⓘ human ⓘ television sports analyst ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Arkansas ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Jimmy Johnson ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
AP NFL Coach of the Year
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Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1943-07-16 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Port Arthur, Texas, United States ⓘ |
| coachOf |
Dallas Cowboys
ⓘ
Miami Dolphins ⓘ Miami Hurricanes football ⓘ Oklahoma State Cowboys football ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Dallas Cowboys
ⓘ
Fox Sports ⓘ Miami Dolphins ⓘ Oklahoma State University ⓘ University of Miami ⓘ |
| familyName | Johnson ⓘ |
| genre | American football broadcasting ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInductionYear | 2020 ⓘ |
| leagueCoachedIn |
NCAA Division I-A
ⓘ
linked to:
NCAA Division I
National Football League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsHallOfFame | Pro Football Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| name | James William Johnson ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
won college football national championship with University of Miami in 1987
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won two consecutive Super Bowls with Dallas Cowboys ⓘ |
| notableWork |
led Dallas Cowboys to Super Bowl XXVII title
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led Dallas Cowboys to Super Bowl XXVIII title ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
ⓘ
sports commentator ⓘ television personality ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Arkansas Razorbacks football team
ⓘ
linked to:
University of Arkansas Razorbacks football
|
| playingPosition | defensive lineman ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
head coach of Dallas Cowboys
ⓘ
head coach of Miami Dolphins ⓘ head coach of Oklahoma State Cowboys football team ⓘ head coach of University of Miami football team ⓘ |
| previousSpouse | Linda Kay Cooper ⓘ |
| residence |
Florida Keys, Florida, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Florida Keys
|
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| spouse | Rhonda Rookmaaker ⓘ |
| worksFor | Fox NFL Sunday ⓘ |
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: James William Johnson Description of subject: James William Johnson is the American football coach and broadcaster better known as Jimmy Johnson, who led the Dallas Cowboys to two Super Bowl titles in the 1990s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.