Tyrone Willingham
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Tyrone Willingham is an American football coach best known for leading major college programs including Stanford, Notre Dame, and Washington.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tyrone Willingham canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1510571 — 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: Tyrone Willingham Context triple: [Stanford Cardinal football team, notableCoach, Tyrone Willingham]
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A.
Lloyd Carr
Lloyd Carr is an American football coach best known for leading the University of Michigan Wolverines to consistent success, including a share of the 1997 national championship.
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B.
Mike Bellotti
Mike Bellotti is a former American college football coach best known for transforming the University of Oregon’s program into a national contender during his long tenure in the 1990s and 2000s.
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C.
Charlie Weis
Charlie Weis is an American football coach best known for serving as offensive coordinator of the New England Patriots during their early 2000s Super Bowl runs and later as head coach at the University of Notre Dame.
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D.
Bo Schembechler
Bo Schembechler was a legendary American college football coach best known for transforming the University of Michigan Wolverines into a perennial powerhouse and for his intense rivalry with Ohio State’s Woody Hayes.
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E.
Dick Kazmaier
Dick Kazmaier was a celebrated American college football halfback who won the 1951 Heisman Trophy while starring for Princeton University.
- 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: Tyrone Willingham Target entity description: Tyrone Willingham is an American football coach best known for leading major college programs including Stanford, Notre Dame, and Washington.
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A.
Lloyd Carr
Lloyd Carr is an American football coach best known for leading the University of Michigan Wolverines to consistent success, including a share of the 1997 national championship.
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B.
Mike Bellotti
Mike Bellotti is a former American college football coach best known for transforming the University of Oregon’s program into a national contender during his long tenure in the 1990s and 2000s.
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C.
Charlie Weis
Charlie Weis is an American football coach best known for serving as offensive coordinator of the New England Patriots during their early 2000s Super Bowl runs and later as head coach at the University of Notre Dame.
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D.
Bo Schembechler
Bo Schembechler was a legendary American college football coach best known for transforming the University of Michigan Wolverines into a perennial powerhouse and for his intense rivalry with Ohio State’s Woody Hayes.
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E.
Dick Kazmaier
Dick Kazmaier was a celebrated American college football halfback who won the 1951 Heisman Trophy while starring for Princeton University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
ⓘ
human ⓘ living person ⓘ |
| collegeCoachingLevel |
NCAA Division I-A
ⓘ
linked to:
Football Bowl Subdivision
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Stanford University
ⓘ
University of Notre Dame ⓘ University of Washington ⓘ |
| familyName | Willingham ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | college football coaching ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | American college football ⓘ |
| givenName | Tyrone ⓘ |
| hasRole |
assistant coach
ⓘ
head coach ⓘ |
| knownFor | being first African-American head football coach at Notre Dame ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Tyrone Willingham ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
led Notre Dame to BCS bowl appearance in 2001 season (2002 Fiesta Bowl)
ⓘ
led Stanford to 1999 Pac-10 championship ⓘ |
| notableFor |
coaching Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team
ⓘ
coaching Stanford Cardinal football team ⓘ coaching Washington Huskies football team ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
ⓘ
sports coach ⓘ |
| partOf |
African-American coaches
ⓘ
African-American sportspeople ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
head football coach at Stanford University
ⓘ
head football coach at University of Notre Dame ⓘ head football coach at University of Washington ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
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: Tyrone Willingham Description of subject: Tyrone Willingham is an American football coach best known for leading major college programs including Stanford, Notre Dame, and Washington.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.