Gerald Austin
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Gerald Austin is a former National Football League official best known for serving as the referee in multiple Super Bowls, including Super Bowl XXXV.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gerald Austin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T782720 — 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: Gerald Austin Context triple: [Super Bowl XXXV, referee, Gerald Austin]
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A.
Gordon Malloy
Gordon Malloy is a wisecracking, skilled helmsman and loyal crew member aboard the exploratory spaceship in the sci-fi comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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B.
Gerald Hagey
Gerald Hagey was a Canadian academic and administrator best known as the founding president who led the development of the University of Waterloo into a major institution.
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C.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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D.
Gordon Dean
Gordon Dean was an American lawyer and government official best known for leading U.S. nuclear policy and weapons development as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission in the early Cold War era.
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E.
Joe Ricketts
Joe Ricketts is an American businessman best known as the founder of the online brokerage firm TD Ameritrade and a prominent member of the billionaire Ricketts family.
- 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: Gerald Austin Target entity description: Gerald Austin is a former National Football League official best known for serving as the referee in multiple Super Bowls, including Super Bowl XXXV.
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A.
Gordon Malloy
Gordon Malloy is a wisecracking, skilled helmsman and loyal crew member aboard the exploratory spaceship in the sci-fi comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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B.
Gerald Hagey
Gerald Hagey was a Canadian academic and administrator best known as the founding president who led the development of the University of Waterloo into a major institution.
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C.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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D.
Gordon Dean
Gordon Dean was an American lawyer and government official best known for leading U.S. nuclear policy and weapons development as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission in the early Cold War era.
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E.
Joe Ricketts
Joe Ricketts is an American businessman best known as the founder of the online brokerage firm TD Ameritrade and a prominent member of the billionaire Ricketts family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football official
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human ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | National Football League games ⓘ |
| competitionClass | professional sports ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | National Football League ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | officiating in American football ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasHonor | assignment to officiate Super Bowls ⓘ |
| hasPartInBiography |
officiated playoff games in the NFL
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served as a referee at the highest level of professional American football ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| leagueWorkedIn | National Football League ⓘ |
| memberOf |
NFL officiating staff
ⓘ
linked to:
NFL officiating crews
|
| notability |
best known for serving as referee in Super Bowl XXXV
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best known for serving as referee in multiple Super Bowls ⓘ |
| notableWork | Super Bowl XXXV ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football official
ⓘ
National Football League official ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | referee ⓘ |
| roleInEvent |
referee in Super Bowl XXXV
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referee in multiple Super Bowls ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| typeOfCareer | sports officiating career ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Gerald Austin Description of subject: Gerald Austin is a former National Football League official best known for serving as the referee in multiple Super Bowls, including Super Bowl XXXV.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.