Jim McMahon
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Jim McMahon is a former NFL quarterback best known for leading the Chicago Bears to victory in Super Bowl XX and for his tough, flamboyant playing style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jim McMahon canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2191514 — 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: Jim McMahon Context triple: [1985 Chicago Bears season, startingQuarterback, Jim McMahon]
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A.
Dick Butkus
Dick Butkus was a ferocious Hall of Fame linebacker for the Chicago Bears, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most intimidating defensive players in NFL history.
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B.
Fran Tarkenton
Fran Tarkenton is a Hall of Fame NFL quarterback best known for his scrambling style and record-setting career primarily with the Minnesota Vikings.
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C.
Curly Lambeau
Curly Lambeau was an American football player and coach best known as the longtime head coach and co-founder of the Green Bay Packers, whom he led to multiple NFL championships.
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D.
Len Dawson
Len Dawson was an American Hall of Fame quarterback best known for leading the Kansas City Chiefs to victory in Super Bowl IV and later working as a prominent football broadcaster.
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E.
Don Hutson
Don Hutson was a pioneering NFL wide receiver of the 1930s and 1940s who revolutionized the passing game and became one of the league’s earliest superstar playmakers.
- 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: Jim McMahon Target entity description: Jim McMahon is a former NFL quarterback best known for leading the Chicago Bears to victory in Super Bowl XX and for his tough, flamboyant playing style.
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A.
Dick Butkus
Dick Butkus was a ferocious Hall of Fame linebacker for the Chicago Bears, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most intimidating defensive players in NFL history.
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B.
Fran Tarkenton
Fran Tarkenton is a Hall of Fame NFL quarterback best known for his scrambling style and record-setting career primarily with the Minnesota Vikings.
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C.
Curly Lambeau
Curly Lambeau was an American football player and coach best known as the longtime head coach and co-founder of the Green Bay Packers, whom he led to multiple NFL championships.
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D.
Len Dawson
Len Dawson was an American Hall of Fame quarterback best known for leading the Kansas City Chiefs to victory in Super Bowl IV and later working as a prominent football broadcaster.
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E.
Don Hutson
Don Hutson was a pioneering NFL wide receiver of the 1930s and 1940s who revolutionized the passing game and became one of the league’s earliest superstar playmakers.
- 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: Jim McMahon Description of subject: Jim McMahon is a former NFL quarterback best known for leading the Chicago Bears to victory in Super Bowl XX and for his tough, flamboyant playing style.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.