Jess Lanier High School
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Jess Lanier High School was a public high school in Bessemer, Alabama, known for its strong football program and for producing NFL linebacker and coach DeMeco Ryans.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jess Lanier High School canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6682698 — 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)
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Target entity: Jess Lanier High School Context triple: [DeMeco Ryans, highSchoolAttended, Jess Lanier High School]
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A.
James Clemens High School
James Clemens High School is a public secondary school serving students in the Madison, Alabama area.
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B.
Charles W. Woodward High School
Charles W. Woodward High School is a public secondary school in Montgomery County, Maryland, known for serving the suburban Washington, D.C. area and for notable alumni including businessman and former NFL team owner Dan Snyder.
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C.
John Overton High School
John Overton High School is a public high school in Nashville, Tennessee, known in part for being the alma mater of Major League Baseball star Mookie Betts.
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D.
Jones High School
Jones High School is the Orlando, Florida high school attended by future NFL wide receiver and Super Bowl MVP Deion Branch.
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E.
Terrell High School
Terrell High School is a public secondary school in Terrell, Texas, best known as the alma mater of actor and musician Jamie Foxx.
- 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: Jess Lanier High School Target entity description: Jess Lanier High School was a public high school in Bessemer, Alabama, known for its strong football program and for producing NFL linebacker and coach DeMeco Ryans.
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A.
James Clemens High School
James Clemens High School is a public secondary school serving students in the Madison, Alabama area.
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B.
Charles W. Woodward High School
Charles W. Woodward High School is a public secondary school in Montgomery County, Maryland, known for serving the suburban Washington, D.C. area and for notable alumni including businessman and former NFL team owner Dan Snyder.
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C.
John Overton High School
John Overton High School is a public high school in Nashville, Tennessee, known in part for being the alma mater of Major League Baseball star Mookie Betts.
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D.
Jones High School
Jones High School is the Orlando, Florida high school attended by future NFL wide receiver and Super Bowl MVP Deion Branch.
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E.
Terrell High School
Terrell High School is a public secondary school in Terrell, Texas, best known as the alma mater of actor and musician Jamie Foxx.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
ⓘ
American football player ⓘ public high school ⓘ secondary school ⓘ |
| alumnusOf | Jess Lanier High School ⓘ |
| category |
Defunct schools in Alabama
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High schools in Jefferson County, Alabama ⓘ Public high schools in Alabama ⓘ |
| city | Bessemer ⓘ |
| closureReason | consolidation into Bessemer City High School ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| educationLevel | grades 9–12 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
producing NFL players
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strong football program ⓘ |
| league | Alabama High School Athletic Association ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bessemer, Alabama
ⓘ
Jefferson County, Alabama ⓘ |
| mascot | Tiger ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Jess Lanier ⓘ |
| notableAlumnus | DeMeco Ryans ⓘ |
| notableFor | head coach of the Houston Texans ⓘ |
| notableProgram | football program ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Bessemer City Schools ⓘ |
| playedPosition | linebacker ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Bessemer City High School ⓘ |
| schoolColors |
gold
ⓘ
purple ⓘ |
| schoolType | public ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| state | Alabama ⓘ |
| status | closed ⓘ |
| teamName | Purple Tigers ⓘ |
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: Jess Lanier High School Description of subject: Jess Lanier High School was a public high school in Bessemer, Alabama, known for its strong football program and for producing NFL linebacker and coach DeMeco Ryans.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Jess Lanier High School