Fred Silva
E351882
Fred Silva is a former National Football League official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl XIV.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fred Silva canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3366387 — 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: Fred Silva Context triple: [Super Bowl XIV, referee, Fred Silva]
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A.
Michael V. Gazzo
Michael V. Gazzo was an American actor and playwright best known for his Oscar-nominated performance as Frank Pentangeli in *The Godfather Part II* and for writing the play *A Hatful of Rain*.
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B.
Greg D'Auria
Greg D'Auria is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science fiction film "Star Trek Beyond."
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C.
Bruno Siciliano
Bruno Siciliano is an Italian roboticist and professor renowned for his influential research, leadership, and educational contributions in the field of robotics and automation.
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D.
Marco Barricelli
Marco Barricelli is an Italian-American actor and theatre director known for his work on stage and in voice roles for film and television.
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E.
Roger de Lauria
Roger de Lauria was a renowned 13th-century admiral of the Crown of Aragon, celebrated for his decisive naval victories in the Mediterranean during the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
- 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: Fred Silva Target entity description: Fred Silva is a former National Football League official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl XIV.
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A.
Michael V. Gazzo
Michael V. Gazzo was an American actor and playwright best known for his Oscar-nominated performance as Frank Pentangeli in *The Godfather Part II* and for writing the play *A Hatful of Rain*.
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B.
Greg D'Auria
Greg D'Auria is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science fiction film "Star Trek Beyond."
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C.
Bruno Siciliano
Bruno Siciliano is an Italian roboticist and professor renowned for his influential research, leadership, and educational contributions in the field of robotics and automation.
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D.
Marco Barricelli
Marco Barricelli is an Italian-American actor and theatre director known for his work on stage and in voice roles for film and television.
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E.
Roger de Lauria
Roger de Lauria was a renowned 13th-century admiral of the Crown of Aragon, celebrated for his decisive naval victories in the Mediterranean during the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | National Football League ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | officiating in American football ⓘ |
| hasPart | officiated NFL games ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Super Bowl XIV ⓘ |
| notableWork | referee in Super Bowl XIV ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football official
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referee ⓘ |
| role | referee ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
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: Fred Silva Description of subject: Fred Silva is a former National Football League official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl XIV.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.