David Tyree
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David Tyree is a former NFL wide receiver best known for his famous "Helmet Catch" for the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Tyree canonical | 5 |
| David Tyree pinned the ball against his helmet | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T435589 — 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: David Tyree Context triple: [Super Bowl XLII, notablePlayPlayer, David Tyree]
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A.
Darrell Green
Darrell Green is a Hall of Fame NFL cornerback renowned for his exceptional speed and longevity during a 20-year career with Washington’s football franchise.
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B.
Andre Reed
Andre Reed is a former NFL wide receiver best known for his prolific career and multiple Super Bowl appearances with the Buffalo Bills in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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C.
Deion Branch
Deion Branch is a former NFL wide receiver best known for his standout performances with the New England Patriots, including earning Super Bowl MVP honors.
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D.
Michael Irvin
Michael Irvin is a Hall of Fame former NFL wide receiver best known as a key offensive star of the Dallas Cowboys dynasty of the 1990s.
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E.
Plaxico Burress
Plaxico Burress is a former NFL wide receiver best known for his time with the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants, including catching the game-winning touchdown in Super Bowl XLII.
- 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: David Tyree Target entity description: David Tyree is a former NFL wide receiver best known for his famous "Helmet Catch" for the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII.
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A.
Darrell Green
Darrell Green is a Hall of Fame NFL cornerback renowned for his exceptional speed and longevity during a 20-year career with Washington’s football franchise.
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B.
Andre Reed
Andre Reed is a former NFL wide receiver best known for his prolific career and multiple Super Bowl appearances with the Buffalo Bills in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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C.
Deion Branch
Deion Branch is a former NFL wide receiver best known for his standout performances with the New England Patriots, including earning Super Bowl MVP honors.
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D.
Michael Irvin
Michael Irvin is a Hall of Fame former NFL wide receiver best known as a key offensive star of the Dallas Cowboys dynasty of the 1990s.
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E.
Plaxico Burress
Plaxico Burress is a former NFL wide receiver best known for his time with the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants, including catching the game-winning touchdown in Super Bowl XLII.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: David Tyree Description of subject: David Tyree is a former NFL wide receiver best known for his famous "Helmet Catch" for the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.