Walt Anderson
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Walt Anderson is a former NFL official who served as a longtime referee and later became the league’s senior vice president of officiating.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Walt Anderson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3270706 — 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: Walt Anderson Context triple: [Super Bowl XLV, referee, Walt Anderson]
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A.
Herb Anderson
Herb Anderson is one of the founders of the Santa Fe Institute, a renowned research center focused on complex systems and interdisciplinary science.
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B.
Harlan Anderson
Harlan Anderson was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the pioneering minicomputer company Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
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C.
Kenneth Anderson
Kenneth Anderson was a British Army general best known for leading Allied ground forces in the North African campaign during World War II, including the early phases of the Tunisian campaign.
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D.
Douglas Wick
Douglas Wick is an American film producer known for acclaimed movies such as "Gladiator," "Working Girl," and "Memoirs of a Geisha."
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E.
Bud Anderson
Bud Anderson is the teenage son in the classic American radio and television sitcom "Father Knows Best," known for his wholesome, all-American boy persona.
- 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: Walt Anderson Target entity description: Walt Anderson is a former NFL official who served as a longtime referee and later became the league’s senior vice president of officiating.
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A.
Herb Anderson
Herb Anderson is one of the founders of the Santa Fe Institute, a renowned research center focused on complex systems and interdisciplinary science.
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B.
Harlan Anderson
Harlan Anderson was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the pioneering minicomputer company Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
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C.
Kenneth Anderson
Kenneth Anderson was a British Army general best known for leading Allied ground forces in the North African campaign during World War II, including the early phases of the Tunisian campaign.
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D.
Douglas Wick
Douglas Wick is an American film producer known for acclaimed movies such as "Gladiator," "Working Girl," and "Memoirs of a Geisha."
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E.
Bud Anderson
Bud Anderson is the teenage son in the classic American radio and television sitcom "Father Knows Best," known for his wholesome, all-American boy persona.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football official
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human ⓘ |
| careerStage |
former on-field official
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league office executive ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
NFL officiating department
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linked to:
NFL league office
National Football League ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | sports officiating ⓘ |
| genre | professional sports ⓘ |
| hasRole |
league executive
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on-field official ⓘ |
| industry | professional sports industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
NFL officiating staff
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linked to:
NFL officiating crews
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| notableFor |
NFL senior vice president of officiating
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longtime NFL referee ⓘ |
| notableRole |
NFL referee
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NFL senior vice president of officiating operations ⓘ |
| occupation |
NFL official
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referee ⓘ senior vice president of officiating ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
NFL referee
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NFL senior vice president of officiating ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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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: Walt Anderson Description of subject: Walt Anderson is a former NFL official who served as a longtime referee and later became the league’s senior vice president of officiating.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.