Mike Tomlin
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Mike Tomlin is a Super Bowl–winning head coach in the NFL, best known for his long, successful tenure leading the Pittsburgh Steelers.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mike Tomlin canonical | 14 |
| Tomlin | 6 |
| Michael Pettaway Tomlin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T513287 — 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: Mike Tomlin Context triple: [Pittsburgh Steelers, notableCoach, Mike Tomlin]
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A.
Andy Reid
Andy Reid is a highly successful American football head coach best known for leading the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs to multiple conference titles and Super Bowl victories.
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B.
Bill Cowher
Bill Cowher is a former NFL head coach best known for leading the Pittsburgh Steelers to consistent success, including a victory in Super Bowl XL.
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C.
Mike McDaniel
Mike McDaniel is an innovative NFL head coach known for his offensive creativity and leadership of the Miami Dolphins.
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D.
Nick Sirianni
Nick Sirianni is an American football coach who serves as the head coach of the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles, leading the team to a Super Bowl appearance in his second season.
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E.
Steve Spagnuolo
Steve Spagnuolo is an American football coach best known as a defensive mastermind in the NFL, including coordinating multiple Super Bowl–winning defenses.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Mike Tomlin Target entity description: Mike Tomlin is a Super Bowl–winning head coach in the NFL, best known for his long, successful tenure leading the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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A.
Andy Reid
Andy Reid is a highly successful American football head coach best known for leading the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs to multiple conference titles and Super Bowl victories.
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B.
Bill Cowher
Bill Cowher is a former NFL head coach best known for leading the Pittsburgh Steelers to consistent success, including a victory in Super Bowl XL.
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C.
Mike McDaniel
Mike McDaniel is an innovative NFL head coach known for his offensive creativity and leadership of the Miami Dolphins.
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D.
Nick Sirianni
Nick Sirianni is an American football coach who serves as the head coach of the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles, leading the team to a Super Bowl appearance in his second season.
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E.
Steve Spagnuolo
Steve Spagnuolo is an American football coach best known as a defensive mastermind in the NFL, including coordinating multiple Super Bowl–winning defenses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
ⓘ
National Football League coach ⓘ human ⓘ |
| almaMater | College of William & Mary ⓘ |
| beganNFLHeadCoachingCareerWith | Pittsburgh Steelers ⓘ |
| birthName |
Michael Pettaway Tomlin
ⓘ
linked to:
Mike Tomlin
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| coachingSpecialty | defensive coach ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | College of William & Mary ⓘ |
| collegePositionPlayed | wide receiver ⓘ |
| conferenceAsPlayer | Yankee Conference (with William & Mary) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1972-03-15 ⓘ |
| division | AFC North ⓘ |
| education | Bachelor’s degree from College of William & Mary ⓘ |
| employer | Pittsburgh Steelers ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African American ⓘ |
| familyName |
Tomlin
ⓘ
linked to:
Mike Tomlin
|
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hallOfFame |
William & Mary Athletics Hall of Fame
ⓘ
linked to:
College of William & Mary
|
| hasChild | three children ⓘ |
| hasCoachedNotablePlayers |
Antonio Brown
ⓘ
Ben Roethlisberger ⓘ James Harrison ⓘ Troy Polamalu ⓘ |
| hasLedTeamToDivisionTitles | AFC North division titles with Pittsburgh Steelers ⓘ |
| jerseyNumberAsPlayer | 87 (at William & Mary) ⓘ |
| knownFor |
long tenure as Pittsburgh Steelers head coach
ⓘ
never having a losing regular-season record through his first 16 seasons as head coach ⓘ |
| leagueCoachedIn | National Football League ⓘ |
| ledTeamToSuperBowlAppearance |
Super Bowl XLIII
ⓘ
Super Bowl XLV ⓘ |
| name | Mike Tomlin ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | won Super Bowl XLIII as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers ⓘ |
| notableFor | stability and consistency as Pittsburgh Steelers head coach ⓘ |
| occupation | American football coach ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hampton, Virginia, United States ⓘ |
| playedCollegeFootballFor | William & Mary Tribe football ⓘ |
| position | head coach ⓘ |
| predecessorAsSteelersHeadCoach | Bill Cowher ⓘ |
| previousCoachingRole |
defensive backs coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
ⓘ
defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings ⓘ |
| residence |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (area)
ⓘ
linked to:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| spouse | Kiya Tomlin ⓘ |
| startTime | 2007 (head coach of Pittsburgh Steelers) ⓘ |
| styleOfWork | player-focused leadership and motivational coaching style ⓘ |
| SuperBowlTitle | Super Bowl XLIII champion head coach ⓘ |
| teamCoached | Pittsburgh Steelers ⓘ |
| wonChampionshipAsAssistantCoach | Super Bowl XXXVII with Tampa Bay Buccaneers (defensive backs coach) ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Mike Tomlin Description of subject: Mike Tomlin is a Super Bowl–winning head coach in the NFL, best known for his long, successful tenure leading the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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