Reesing
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Reesing is the surname of Todd Reesing, an American former college football quarterback best known for his record-setting career at the University of Kansas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Reesing canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11271166 — 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: Reesing Context triple: [Todd Reesing, familyName, Reesing]
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A.
Reed
Reed is a given name and surname of English and Scottish origin, commonly associated with meanings related to red hair or a person living near reeds.
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B.
Reed
Reed is a small rural village located within the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England.
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C.
Rennahan
Rennahan is a surname most notably associated with Ray Rennahan, an American cinematographer known for his pioneering work with Technicolor.
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D.
Rennie
Rennie is a Scottish surname most notably associated with the family of civil engineers, including John Rennie the Younger.
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E.
Scoggins
Scoggins is a minor supporting character in the 1999 science fiction horror film "Deep Blue Sea," which centers on genetically enhanced sharks in an underwater research facility.
- 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: Reesing Target entity description: Reesing is the surname of Todd Reesing, an American former college football quarterback best known for his record-setting career at the University of Kansas.
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A.
Reed
Reed is a given name and surname of English and Scottish origin, commonly associated with meanings related to red hair or a person living near reeds.
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B.
Reed
Reed is a small rural village located within the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England.
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C.
Rennahan
Rennahan is a surname most notably associated with Ray Rennahan, an American cinematographer known for his pioneering work with Technicolor.
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D.
Rennie
Rennie is a Scottish surname most notably associated with the family of civil engineers, including John Rennie the Younger.
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E.
Scoggins
Scoggins is a minor supporting character in the 1999 science fiction horror film "Deep Blue Sea," which centers on genetically enhanced sharks in an underwater research facility.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
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college football quarterback ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Kansas ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Austin, Texas, United States ⓘ |
| college | University of Kansas ⓘ |
| collegeTeamNumber | 5 ⓘ |
| competitionClass |
NCAA Division I FBS
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linked to:
Football Bowl Subdivision
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| dateOfBirth | 1987-09-20 ⓘ |
| era | late 2000s college football ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Todd Reesing ⓘ |
| height | about 5 ft 11 in ⓘ |
| highSchool | Lake Travis High School ⓘ |
| highSchoolLocation |
Austin, Texas
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linked to:
Austin
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| knownFor | transforming Kansas Jayhawks into a nationally ranked team ⓘ |
| ledTeamTo | 2008 Orange Bowl victory ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Kansas Jayhawks football ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | record-setting career at the University of Kansas ⓘ |
| occupation | sports commentator ⓘ |
| playedFor | University of Kansas ⓘ |
| playedIn | Big 12 Conference ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | quarterback ⓘ |
| role | starting quarterback for Kansas Jayhawks football team ⓘ |
| setRecord |
multiple Kansas Jayhawks passing records
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multiple University of Kansas total offense records ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| status | retired from playing ⓘ |
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: Reesing Description of subject: Reesing is the surname of Todd Reesing, an American former college football quarterback best known for his record-setting career at the University of Kansas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.