Dick Hantak
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Dick Hantak is a former National Football League official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl XXVII.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dick Hantak canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2596727 — 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: Dick Hantak Context triple: [Super Bowl XXVII, referee, Dick Hantak]
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A.
Ron Hagen
Ron Hagen is a cinematographer best known for his work on the Australian film "Romper Stomper."
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B.
Jim Harrick
Jim Harrick is an American college basketball coach best known for leading UCLA to the 1995 NCAA championship.
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C.
Ben Haggerty
Ben Haggerty, better known by his stage name Macklemore, is an American rapper and songwriter recognized for hits like "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us."
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D.
Gary Waldhorn
Gary Waldhorn was a British actor best known for his comedic and character roles on television and stage, particularly in popular UK sitcoms.
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E.
Jack Gariss
Jack Gariss was an American screenwriter best known for his work on major mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including contributing to the script of Cecil B. DeMille’s epic "The Ten Commandments" (1956).
- 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: Dick Hantak Target entity description: Dick Hantak is a former National Football League official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl XXVII.
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A.
Ron Hagen
Ron Hagen is a cinematographer best known for his work on the Australian film "Romper Stomper."
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B.
Jim Harrick
Jim Harrick is an American college basketball coach best known for leading UCLA to the 1995 NCAA championship.
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C.
Ben Haggerty
Ben Haggerty, better known by his stage name Macklemore, is an American rapper and songwriter recognized for hits like "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us."
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D.
Gary Waldhorn
Gary Waldhorn was a British actor best known for his comedic and character roles on television and stage, particularly in popular UK sitcoms.
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E.
Jack Gariss
Jack Gariss was an American screenwriter best known for his work on major mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including contributing to the script of Cecil B. DeMille’s epic "The Ten Commandments" (1956).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football official
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| employer | National Football League ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | sports officiating ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| leagueOfficiated | National Football League ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as the referee in Super Bowl XXVII ⓘ |
| occupation | American football official ⓘ |
| positionInOfficiatingCrew | referee ⓘ |
| roleInGame | referee in Super Bowl XXVII ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Dick Hantak Description of subject: Dick Hantak is a former National Football League official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl XXVII.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.