William Jeffrey Hostetler
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William Jeffrey Hostetler, better known as Jeff Hostetler, is a former American football quarterback who led the New York Giants to victory in Super Bowl XXV.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Jeffrey Hostetler canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3595725 — 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: William Jeffrey Hostetler Context triple: [Jeff Hostetler, fullName, William Jeffrey Hostetler]
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A.
David C. Robinson
David C. Robinson is a mathematical physicist known for his contributions to general relativity, particularly in the study of black hole uniqueness theorems.
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B.
John Byron Nelson Jr.
John Byron Nelson Jr. was an American professional golfer renowned for his dominant 1945 season and is considered one of the greatest golfers in the sport’s history.
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C.
John Requa
John Requa is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing films such as "Bad Santa," "I Love You Phillip Morris," and "Jungle Cruise."
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D.
Robert Calvin Bland
Robert Calvin Bland was an influential American blues and soul singer known for his smooth vocal style and a string of hits in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
Eric Hilliard Nelson
Eric Hilliard "Ricky" Nelson was an American singer, musician, and actor who became a teen idol in the 1950s and 1960s, known for his rock and roll hits and his role on the television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
- 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: William Jeffrey Hostetler Target entity description: William Jeffrey Hostetler, better known as Jeff Hostetler, is a former American football quarterback who led the New York Giants to victory in Super Bowl XXV.
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A.
David C. Robinson
David C. Robinson is a mathematical physicist known for his contributions to general relativity, particularly in the study of black hole uniqueness theorems.
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B.
John Byron Nelson Jr.
John Byron Nelson Jr. was an American professional golfer renowned for his dominant 1945 season and is considered one of the greatest golfers in the sport’s history.
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C.
John Requa
John Requa is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing films such as "Bad Santa," "I Love You Phillip Morris," and "Jungle Cruise."
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D.
Robert Calvin Bland
Robert Calvin Bland was an influential American blues and soul singer known for his smooth vocal style and a string of hits in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
Eric Hilliard Nelson
Eric Hilliard "Ricky" Nelson was an American singer, musician, and actor who became a teen idol in the 1950s and 1960s, known for his rock and roll hits and his role on the television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
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human ⓘ quarterback ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | West Virginia University ⓘ |
| collegeTeam | West Virginia Mountaineers football ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| draftedBy | New York Giants ⓘ |
| draftLeague | NFL Draft ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| ledTeamToTitle | New York Giants Super Bowl XXV victory ⓘ |
| middleName | Jeffrey ⓘ |
| nickname | Jeff Hostetler ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
led game‑winning drive in Super Bowl XXV
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starting quarterback in Super Bowl XXV ⓘ |
| occupation | American football player ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Los Angeles Raiders
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linked to:
Las Vegas Raiders
New York Giants ⓘ Oakland Raiders ⓘ
linked to:
Las Vegas Raiders
Washington Redskins ⓘ
linked to:
Washington Commanders
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| positionPlayed | quarterback ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| teamAtTimeOfAchievement | New York Giants ⓘ |
| won | Super Bowl XXV ⓘ |
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: William Jeffrey Hostetler Description of subject: William Jeffrey Hostetler, better known as Jeff Hostetler, is a former American football quarterback who led the New York Giants to victory in Super Bowl XXV.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.