David Shaw
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David Shaw is an American football coach best known for his successful tenure as head coach of Stanford University's football program in the 2010s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Shaw canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1510573 — 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: David Shaw Context triple: [Stanford Cardinal football team, notableCoach, David Shaw]
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A.
John Bloom
John Bloom is a film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on movies such as "Gandhi" and his editing contributions to notable films including "Charlie Wilson's War."
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B.
David Holmes
David Holmes is a name shared by several notable individuals, including a British diplomat and a stuntman best known as Daniel Radcliffe’s double in the Harry Potter film series.
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C.
Brian Hayward
Brian Hayward is a former professional ice hockey goaltender and longtime NHL television analyst best known for his years with the Montreal Canadiens and his broadcasting work with the Anaheim Ducks.
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D.
Keith Lockhart
Keith Lockhart is an American conductor best known for his long tenure leading the Boston Pops Orchestra and his frequent appearances on nationally televised concerts.
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E.
Nicholas Vedder
Nicholas Vedder is a minor character in Washington Irving's short story "Rip Van Winkle," known as the patriarchal village innkeeper and habitual sitter by the tavern door.
- 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: David Shaw Target entity description: David Shaw is an American football coach best known for his successful tenure as head coach of Stanford University's football program in the 2010s.
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A.
John Bloom
John Bloom is a film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on movies such as "Gandhi" and his editing contributions to notable films including "Charlie Wilson's War."
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B.
David Holmes
David Holmes is a name shared by several notable individuals, including a British diplomat and a stuntman best known as Daniel Radcliffe’s double in the Harry Potter film series.
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C.
Brian Hayward
Brian Hayward is a former professional ice hockey goaltender and longtime NHL television analyst best known for his years with the Montreal Canadiens and his broadcasting work with the Anaheim Ducks.
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D.
Keith Lockhart
Keith Lockhart is an American conductor best known for his long tenure leading the Boston Pops Orchestra and his frequent appearances on nationally televised concerts.
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E.
Nicholas Vedder
Nicholas Vedder is a minor character in Washington Irving's short story "Rip Van Winkle," known as the patriarchal village innkeeper and habitual sitter by the tavern door.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
ⓘ
American football coach ⓘ human ⓘ |
| almaMater | Stanford University ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Pac-12 Coach of the Year ⓘ |
| bowlGameWon |
Rose Bowl Game (2012 season)
ⓘ
linked to:
Rose Bowl
Rose Bowl Game (2015 season) ⓘ
linked to:
2016 Rose Bowl
|
| coachOf |
Baltimore Ravens (assistant coach)
ⓘ
linked to:
Baltimore Ravens
Oakland Raiders (assistant coach) ⓘ
linked to:
Las Vegas Raiders
Philadelphia Eagles (assistant coach) ⓘ San Diego Toreros football (assistant coach) ⓘ Stanford Cardinal football (offensive coordinator) ⓘ
linked to:
Stanford Cardinal football team
Western Washington Vikings football (assistant coach) ⓘ |
| collegeTeamPlayedFor |
Stanford Cardinal football
ⓘ
linked to:
Stanford Cardinal football team
|
| conferenceChampionshipWon |
Pac-12 Championship (2012)
ⓘ
linked to:
Pac-12 Football Championship Game
Pac-12 Championship (2013) ⓘ
linked to:
Pac-12 Football Championship Game
Pac-12 Championship (2015) ⓘ
linked to:
Pac-12 Football Championship Game
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1972-07-31 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Stanford University ⓘ |
| employer | Stanford University ⓘ |
| endTime | 2022 (as Stanford head coach) ⓘ |
| familyName | Shaw ⓘ |
| genreOfCoaching | offensive football ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| headCoachOf |
Stanford Cardinal football
ⓘ
linked to:
Stanford Cardinal football team
|
| knownFor |
coaching multiple Heisman Trophy finalists at Stanford
ⓘ
developing pro-style offenses at Stanford ⓘ |
| leagueCoachedIn |
NCAA Division I FBS
ⓘ
linked to:
NCAA Division I
National Football League ⓘ |
| name | David Shaw ⓘ |
| notableFor | successful tenure as head coach of Stanford Cardinal football in the 2010s ⓘ |
| notablePlayerCoached |
Andrew Luck
ⓘ
Christian McCaffrey ⓘ Kevin Hogan ⓘ |
| numberOfPac12CoachOfTheYearAwards | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
ⓘ
American football player ⓘ |
| parent | Willie Shaw ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Diego, California, United States ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | wide receiver ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Jim Harbaugh (as Stanford head coach)
ⓘ
linked to:
Jim Harbaugh
|
| relative | Willie Shaw ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| sportDisciplineCoached |
college football
ⓘ
professional American football ⓘ |
| startTime | 2011 (as Stanford head coach) ⓘ |
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: David Shaw Description of subject: David Shaw is an American football coach best known for his successful tenure as head coach of Stanford University's football program in the 2010s.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.