Matt Eversmann
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Matt Eversmann is a former U.S. Army Ranger sergeant known for his leadership during the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, later depicted in the film "Black Hawk Down."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matt Eversmann canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2351809 — 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: Matt Eversmann Context triple: [Black Hawk Down, portraysCharacter, Matt Eversmann]
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A.
Evan Daugherty
Evan Daugherty is an American screenwriter best known for his work on major Hollywood films such as "Snow White and the Huntsman," "Divergent," and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."
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B.
Trent Baalke
Trent Baalke is an American football executive best known for his tenure as an NFL general manager, including leading front offices for multiple franchises.
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C.
Kyle Vogt
Kyle Vogt is an American entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the self-driving car company Cruise and earlier as a co-founder of the live-streaming platform Twitch.
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D.
Evan Washburn
Evan Washburn is an American sports reporter best known as a sideline correspondent for CBS’s NFL coverage, including major events like the Super Bowl.
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E.
Cody Gifford
Cody Gifford is an American television producer and screenwriter, best known as the son of Hall of Fame football player and broadcaster Frank Gifford and television host Kathie Lee Gifford.
- 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: Matt Eversmann Target entity description: Matt Eversmann is a former U.S. Army Ranger sergeant known for his leadership during the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, later depicted in the film "Black Hawk Down."
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A.
Evan Daugherty
Evan Daugherty is an American screenwriter best known for his work on major Hollywood films such as "Snow White and the Huntsman," "Divergent," and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."
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B.
Trent Baalke
Trent Baalke is an American football executive best known for his tenure as an NFL general manager, including leading front offices for multiple franchises.
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C.
Kyle Vogt
Kyle Vogt is an American entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the self-driving car company Cruise and earlier as a co-founder of the live-streaming platform Twitch.
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D.
Evan Washburn
Evan Washburn is an American sports reporter best known as a sideline correspondent for CBS’s NFL coverage, including major events like the Super Bowl.
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E.
Cody Gifford
Cody Gifford is an American television producer and screenwriter, best known as the son of Hall of Fame football player and broadcaster Frank Gifford and television host Kathie Lee Gifford.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army soldier
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human ⓘ non-commissioned officer ⓘ veteran ⓘ |
| basedIn | United States of America ⓘ |
| basedOnEvent | 1993 raid in Mogadishu, Somalia ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf |
The Battle of Mogadishu: Firsthand Accounts From the Men of Task Force Ranger
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linked to:
Battle of Mogadishu
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| conflict |
Battle of Mogadishu
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Somali Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era |
early 21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Eversmann ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
military leadership
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organizational leadership ⓘ |
| genreOfWriting |
memoir
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military history ⓘ |
| givenName | Matt ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
consulting with businesses and organizations on leadership
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delivering keynote speeches on leadership and resilience ⓘ |
| hasHonor | various U.S. military decorations for service ⓘ |
| hasRole | squad leader during the Battle of Mogadishu ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leadership under fire
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veterans advocacy and leadership training ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Sergeant ⓘ |
| militarySpecialty | Ranger ⓘ |
| militaryUnit |
3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment
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linked to:
3rd Ranger Battalion
75th Ranger Regiment ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a central real-life figure behind the character in Black Hawk Down
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being one of the key Rangers on the ground during the Black Hawk Down incident ⓘ leadership during the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Battle of Mogadishu: Firsthand Accounts From the Men of Task Force Ranger
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linked to:
Battle of Mogadishu
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| occupation |
author
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consultant ⓘ public speaker ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| partOf | Task Force Ranger ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Josh Hartnett ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| serviceNumberOfYears | approximately 20 years in the U.S. Army ⓘ |
| speaksLanguage | English ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Black Hawk Down (film)
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linked to:
Black Hawk Down
interviews and documentaries about the Battle of Mogadishu ⓘ |
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: Matt Eversmann Description of subject: Matt Eversmann is a former U.S. Army Ranger sergeant known for his leadership during the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, later depicted in the film "Black Hawk Down."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.