Sam Shields
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Sam Shields is a former American football cornerback best known for his NFL career with the Green Bay Packers, with whom he won Super Bowl XLV.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sam Shields canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8177299 — 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: Sam Shields Context triple: [Shields, hasNotableBearer, Sam Shields]
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A.
Shawn Eichman
Shawn Eichman is an American political activist best known as a defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down federal prohibitions on flag desecration as unconstitutional.
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B.
Christian Shank
Christian Shank was an early settler and landowner after whom the town of Shanksville, Pennsylvania, was named.
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C.
Shawn Patterson
Shawn Patterson is an American composer and songwriter best known for his work on film and television scores, including the hit song "Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie.
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D.
Ken Schretzmann
Ken Schretzmann is a film editor known for his work on major animated features, including Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio.
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E.
Josh Schaeffer
Josh Schaeffer is a film editor known for his work on major studio features, including the monster crossover blockbuster "Godzilla vs. Kong."
- 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: Sam Shields Target entity description: Sam Shields is a former American football cornerback best known for his NFL career with the Green Bay Packers, with whom he won Super Bowl XLV.
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A.
Shawn Eichman
Shawn Eichman is an American political activist best known as a defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down federal prohibitions on flag desecration as unconstitutional.
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B.
Christian Shank
Christian Shank was an early settler and landowner after whom the town of Shanksville, Pennsylvania, was named.
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C.
Shawn Patterson
Shawn Patterson is an American composer and songwriter best known for his work on film and television scores, including the hit song "Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie.
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D.
Ken Schretzmann
Ken Schretzmann is a film editor known for his work on major animated features, including Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio.
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E.
Josh Schaeffer
Josh Schaeffer is a film editor known for his work on major studio features, including the monster crossover blockbuster "Godzilla vs. Kong."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
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cornerback ⓘ human ⓘ |
| championship | Super Bowl XLV ⓘ |
| collegeTeam | Miami Hurricanes football ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Miami ⓘ |
| enteredLeagueAs | undrafted free agent ⓘ |
| familyName | Shields ⓘ |
| givenName | Sam ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Green Bay Packers
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Los Angeles Rams ⓘ |
| name | Sam Shields ⓘ |
| notableFor |
NFL career with the Green Bay Packers
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winning Super Bowl XLV with the Green Bay Packers ⓘ |
| occupation | American football cornerback ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Green Bay Packers
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Los Angeles Rams ⓘ |
| playedPosition | defensive back ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | cornerback ⓘ |
| retiredFrom | American football ⓘ |
| signedWith | Green Bay Packers ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| undraftedYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| won | Super Bowl XLV ⓘ |
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: Sam Shields Description of subject: Sam Shields is a former American football cornerback best known for his NFL career with the Green Bay Packers, with whom he won Super Bowl XLV.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.