Dennis Shaw
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Dennis Shaw is a former American football quarterback who starred at San Diego State before playing in the NFL, most notably for the Buffalo Bills.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dennis Shaw canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2904289 — 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: Dennis Shaw Context triple: [San Diego State Aztecs football, producedNotableNFLPlayer, Dennis Shaw]
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A.
Dennis Reynolds
Dennis Reynolds is a narcissistic, manipulative co-owner of Paddy’s Pub and one of the main characters in the dark comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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B.
Dennis Hull
Dennis Hull is a former Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played primarily for the Chicago Black Hawks in the NHL and is the younger brother of Hall of Famer Bobby Hull.
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C.
Bryan Shaw
Bryan Shaw is an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher known for his durability and heavy workload out of the bullpen, particularly during his tenure with the Cleveland Indians.
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D.
Dennis Awtrey
Dennis Awtrey is a former American professional basketball center known for his defensive play and role as a key contributor on several NBA teams during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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E.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
- 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: Dennis Shaw Target entity description: Dennis Shaw is a former American football quarterback who starred at San Diego State before playing in the NFL, most notably for the Buffalo Bills.
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A.
Dennis Reynolds
Dennis Reynolds is a narcissistic, manipulative co-owner of Paddy’s Pub and one of the main characters in the dark comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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B.
Dennis Hull
Dennis Hull is a former Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played primarily for the Chicago Black Hawks in the NHL and is the younger brother of Hall of Famer Bobby Hull.
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C.
Bryan Shaw
Bryan Shaw is an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher known for his durability and heavy workload out of the bullpen, particularly during his tenure with the Cleveland Indians.
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D.
Dennis Awtrey
Dennis Awtrey is a former American professional basketball center known for his defensive play and role as a key contributor on several NBA teams during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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E.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
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human ⓘ quarterback ⓘ |
| coachedByInCollege | San Diego State Aztecs coaching staff ⓘ |
| collegeAchievement | star quarterback at San Diego State ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | San Diego State University ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Buffalo Bills ⓘ |
| draftLeague |
NFL
ⓘ
linked to:
National Football League
|
| draftYear | 1970 NFL Draft ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Buffalo Bills
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Kansas City Chiefs ⓘ St. Louis Cardinals ⓘ |
| notableFor | playing quarterback for the Buffalo Bills ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Buffalo Bills starting quarterback
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linked to:
Buffalo Bills
|
| occupation | American football player ⓘ |
| playedCollegeFootballFor | San Diego State Aztecs football ⓘ |
| positionInTeam | starting quarterback ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | quarterback ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| sportNumber | quarterback jersey number (various teams) ⓘ |
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: Dennis Shaw Description of subject: Dennis Shaw is a former American football quarterback who starred at San Diego State before playing in the NFL, most notably for the Buffalo Bills.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.