Ara Parseghian
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Ara Parseghian was a Hall of Fame college football coach best known for revitalizing the University of Notre Dame program in the 1960s and 1970s and winning two national championships.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ara Parseghian canonical | 8 |
| Ara Raoul Parseghian | 1 |
| Parseghian | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2521865 — 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)
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Target entity: Ara Parseghian Context triple: [Notre Dame Fighting Irish football, notableCoach, Ara Parseghian]
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A.
Dick Kazmaier
Dick Kazmaier was a celebrated American college football halfback who won the 1951 Heisman Trophy while starring for Princeton University.
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B.
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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C.
Tom Osborne
Tom Osborne is a legendary American college football coach and former U.S. congressman best known for leading the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers to three national championships.
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D.
Tom Flores
Tom Flores is a former American football coach and quarterback best known for leading the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders to two Super Bowl victories and becoming one of the first Latino head coaches to win an NFL championship.
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E.
Bear Bryant
Bear Bryant was a legendary American college football coach best known for building the University of Alabama into a national powerhouse.
- 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: Ara Parseghian Target entity description: Ara Parseghian was a Hall of Fame college football coach best known for revitalizing the University of Notre Dame program in the 1960s and 1970s and winning two national championships.
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A.
Dick Kazmaier
Dick Kazmaier was a celebrated American college football halfback who won the 1951 Heisman Trophy while starring for Princeton University.
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B.
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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C.
Tom Osborne
Tom Osborne is a legendary American college football coach and former U.S. congressman best known for leading the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers to three national championships.
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D.
Tom Flores
Tom Flores is a former American football coach and quarterback best known for leading the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders to two Super Bowl victories and becoming one of the first Latino head coaches to win an NFL championship.
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E.
Bear Bryant
Bear Bryant was a legendary American college football coach best known for building the University of Alabama into a national powerhouse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
ⓘ
college football coach ⓘ human ⓘ |
| almaMater | Miami University ⓘ |
| awardReceived | College Football Hall of Fame induction ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | hip infection ⓘ |
| coachOf |
Notre Dame Fighting Irish national championship team 1966
ⓘ
linked to:
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
Notre Dame Fighting Irish national championship team 1973 ⓘ
linked to:
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
|
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1923-05-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-08-02 ⓘ |
| employer |
Miami University
ⓘ
Northwestern University ⓘ University of Notre Dame ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Armenian American ⓘ |
| familyName |
Parseghian
ⓘ
linked to:
Ara Parseghian
|
| founded | Ara Parseghian Medical Research Fund ⓘ |
| fullName |
Ara Raoul Parseghian
ⓘ
linked to:
Ara Parseghian
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| genre | college football ⓘ |
| givenName | Ara ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Hall of Fame coach ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Michael Parseghian ⓘ |
| headCoachOf |
Miami Redskins football team
ⓘ
linked to:
Miami Redskins football
Northwestern Wildcats football team ⓘ
linked to:
Northwestern Wildcats
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team ⓘ
linked to:
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
|
| influenced | Notre Dame football culture ⓘ |
| leagueCoachedIn |
NCAA Division I football
ⓘ
linked to:
Football Bowl Subdivision
|
| memberOf | College Football Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Miami Redskins football team
ⓘ
linked to:
Miami Redskins football
|
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
revitalized Notre Dame football program
ⓘ
won two national championships at Notre Dame ⓘ |
| notableFor |
strategic game management
ⓘ
turning around struggling football programs ⓘ |
| notableWork | revitalization of Notre Dame football program in the 1960s and 1970s ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
ⓘ
American football player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Akron, Ohio, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Akron
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| placeOfDeath | Granger, Indiana, United States ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
defensive back
ⓘ
fullback ⓘ halfback ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
South Bend, Indiana, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
South Bend, Indiana
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| sport | American football ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Ara Parseghian Description of subject: Ara Parseghian was a Hall of Fame college football coach best known for revitalizing the University of Notre Dame program in the 1960s and 1970s and winning two national championships.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ara Parseghian
linked to: Ara Parseghian