Howard Schnellenberger
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Howard Schnellenberger was an American football coach best known for helping build multiple college programs from the ground up and for his key role in shaping the modern success of the Miami Hurricanes.
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| Howard Schnellenberger canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11180695 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Howard Schnellenberger Context triple: [1972 Miami Dolphins perfect season team, offensiveCoordinator, Howard Schnellenberger]
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A.
Don Shula
Don Shula was a legendary American football coach best known for leading the Miami Dolphins to two Super Bowl titles and the NFL’s only perfect season.
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B.
Dennis Green
Dennis Green was an American football coach best known for his successful tenure as head coach of the Minnesota Vikings in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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C.
Mike Shula
Mike Shula is an American football coach and former quarterback best known for his roles as an NFL offensive coordinator and college head coach, and as the son of legendary coach Don Shula.
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D.
Sam Wyche
Sam Wyche was an innovative American football coach and former NFL quarterback best known for leading the Cincinnati Bengals to prominence in the late 1980s with his up-tempo, no-huddle offense.
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E.
Tom Flores
Tom Flores is a former American football coach and quarterback best known for leading the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders to two Super Bowl victories and becoming one of the first Latino head coaches to win an NFL championship.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Howard Schnellenberger Target entity description: Howard Schnellenberger was an American football coach best known for helping build multiple college programs from the ground up and for his key role in shaping the modern success of the Miami Hurricanes.
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A.
Don Shula
Don Shula was a legendary American football coach best known for leading the Miami Dolphins to two Super Bowl titles and the NFL’s only perfect season.
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B.
Dennis Green
Dennis Green was an American football coach best known for his successful tenure as head coach of the Minnesota Vikings in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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C.
Mike Shula
Mike Shula is an American football coach and former quarterback best known for his roles as an NFL offensive coordinator and college head coach, and as the son of legendary coach Don Shula.
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D.
Sam Wyche
Sam Wyche was an innovative American football coach and former NFL quarterback best known for leading the Cincinnati Bengals to prominence in the late 1980s with his up-tempo, no-huddle offense.
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E.
Tom Flores
Tom Flores is a former American football coach and quarterback best known for leading the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders to two Super Bowl victories and becoming one of the first Latino head coaches to win an NFL championship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
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college football coach ⓘ human ⓘ |
| assistantCoachOf |
Los Angeles Rams
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Miami Dolphins ⓘ University of Alabama football team ⓘ
linked to:
Alabama Crimson Tide football
University of Kentucky football team ⓘ
linked to:
Kentucky Wildcats football
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1934-03-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-03-27 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Kentucky ⓘ |
| employer |
Baltimore Colts
ⓘ
linked to:
Indianapolis Colts
Florida Atlantic University ⓘ Los Angeles Rams ⓘ Miami Dolphins ⓘ University of Alabama ⓘ University of Kentucky ⓘ University of Louisville ⓘ University of Miami ⓘ |
| familyName | Schnellenberger ⓘ |
| givenName | Howard ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction |
College Football Hall of Fame (as a coach, 2021 posthumous selection)
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linked to:
College Football Hall of Fame
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| headCoachOf |
Baltimore Colts
ⓘ
linked to:
Indianapolis Colts
Florida Atlantic University football team ⓘ
linked to:
Florida Atlantic Owls football team
Oklahoma Sooners football team ⓘ
linked to:
Oklahoma Sooners
University of Louisville football team ⓘ
linked to:
Louisville Cardinals football
University of Miami football team ⓘ
linked to:
Miami Hurricanes football
|
| knownFor |
building college football programs from the ground up
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shaping the modern success of the Miami Hurricanes football program ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
credited with laying the foundation for the Miami Hurricanes football dynasty
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founded Florida Atlantic University football program ⓘ head coach of the 1973 Miami Dolphins offense that won Super Bowl VIII ⓘ led Florida Atlantic to its first bowl appearance ⓘ led Louisville to a victory in the 1991 Fiesta Bowl ⓘ led Miami Hurricanes to the 1983 national championship ⓘ led Miami to an Orange Bowl victory after the 1983 season ⓘ offensive coordinator for the undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins ⓘ recruited Joe Namath to the University of Alabama ⓘ revitalized University of Louisville football program ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
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American football player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Saint Meinrad, Indiana, United States
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linked to:
Saint Meinrad, Indiana
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| placeOfDeath | Boca Raton, Florida, United States ⓘ |
| playedFor |
University of Kentucky football team
ⓘ
linked to:
Kentucky Wildcats football
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| positionPlayed | tight end ⓘ |
| residence | Boca Raton, Florida, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| spouse | Beverly Schnellenberger ⓘ |
| workedUnderCoach |
Bear Bryant
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Don Shula ⓘ |
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.
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Subject: Howard Schnellenberger Description of subject: Howard Schnellenberger was an American football coach best known for helping build multiple college programs from the ground up and for his key role in shaping the modern success of the Miami Hurricanes.
Referenced by (5)
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