Steve McNair
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Steve McNair was an American NFL quarterback renowned for his toughness, dual-threat playmaking ability, and leadership, most prominently with the Tennessee Titans.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steve McNair canonical | 15 |
| Stephen LaTreal McNair | 3 |
| former NFL quarterback Steve McNair | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1377926 — 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: Steve McNair Context triple: [Tennessee Titans, notablePlayer, Steve McNair]
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A.
Kurt Warner
Kurt Warner is a former NFL quarterback and Hall of Famer best known for his remarkable rise from undrafted free agent to Super Bowl champion and two-time league MVP.
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B.
Trent Dilfer
Trent Dilfer is a former NFL quarterback best known for leading the Baltimore Ravens to a championship in Super Bowl XXXV and later working as a football analyst and college coach.
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C.
Jim Kelly
Jim Kelly is a Hall of Fame quarterback best known for leading the Buffalo Bills to four consecutive Super Bowl appearances in the early 1990s.
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D.
David Garrard
David Garrard is a former NFL quarterback best known for leading the Jacksonville Jaguars during the mid-2000s, including a standout 2007 playoff season.
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E.
Warren Moon
Warren Moon is a Hall of Fame quarterback renowned for his prolific passing career in both the Canadian Football League and the NFL.
- 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: Steve McNair Target entity description: Steve McNair was an American NFL quarterback renowned for his toughness, dual-threat playmaking ability, and leadership, most prominently with the Tennessee Titans.
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A.
Kurt Warner
Kurt Warner is a former NFL quarterback and Hall of Famer best known for his remarkable rise from undrafted free agent to Super Bowl champion and two-time league MVP.
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B.
Trent Dilfer
Trent Dilfer is a former NFL quarterback best known for leading the Baltimore Ravens to a championship in Super Bowl XXXV and later working as a football analyst and college coach.
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C.
Jim Kelly
Jim Kelly is a Hall of Fame quarterback best known for leading the Buffalo Bills to four consecutive Super Bowl appearances in the early 1990s.
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D.
David Garrard
David Garrard is a former NFL quarterback best known for leading the Jacksonville Jaguars during the mid-2000s, including a standout 2007 playoff season.
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E.
Warren Moon
Warren Moon is a Hall of Fame quarterback renowned for his prolific passing career in both the Canadian Football League and the NFL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Steve McNair Description of subject: Steve McNair was an American NFL quarterback renowned for his toughness, dual-threat playmaking ability, and leadership, most prominently with the Tennessee Titans.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Steve McNair
subject linked to:
Mount Olive, Mississippi, United States
linked to: Steve McNair
Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi, United States
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notableBurial
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former NFL quarterback Steve McNair
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linked to: Steve McNair