Shawn Hochuli
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Shawn Hochuli is an American NFL official who followed his father Ed Hochuli into a prominent career as a referee.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shawn Hochuli canonical | 4 |
| Shawn Hochuli – NFL referee | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T725393 — 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: Shawn Hochuli Context triple: [Ed Hochuli, parentOf, Shawn Hochuli]
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A.
Zach Thomas
Zach Thomas is a former NFL linebacker best known for his long, standout career with the Miami Dolphins, where he became one of the league’s most productive and respected defensive players.
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B.
Leon Riley
Leon Riley was an American professional baseball player and minor league manager, best known as the father of legendary NBA coach and executive Pat Riley.
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C.
Howie Long
Howie Long is a former NFL Hall of Fame defensive end who became a prominent football analyst and television personality.
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D.
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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E.
Mancel Warrick
Mancel Warrick was the father of American soul and R&B singer Dee Dee Warwick and a member of the musical Warwick family.
- 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: Shawn Hochuli Target entity description: Shawn Hochuli is an American NFL official who followed his father Ed Hochuli into a prominent career as a referee.
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A.
Zach Thomas
Zach Thomas is a former NFL linebacker best known for his long, standout career with the Miami Dolphins, where he became one of the league’s most productive and respected defensive players.
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B.
Leon Riley
Leon Riley was an American professional baseball player and minor league manager, best known as the father of legendary NBA coach and executive Pat Riley.
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C.
Howie Long
Howie Long is a former NFL Hall of Fame defensive end who became a prominent football analyst and television personality.
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D.
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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E.
Mancel Warrick
Mancel Warrick was the father of American soul and R&B singer Dee Dee Warwick and a member of the musical Warwick family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football official
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | National Football League ⓘ |
| familyName | Hochuli ⓘ |
| father | Ed Hochuli ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American football officiating
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sports officiating ⓘ |
| followedCareerPathOf | Ed Hochuli ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Shawn ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Ed Hochuli ⓘ |
| hasRole |
NFL official
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NFL referee ⓘ |
| isPartOf | NFL officiating crews ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the son of longtime NFL referee Ed Hochuli
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officiating NFL playoff games ⓘ officiating NFL regular season games ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football referee
ⓘ
NFL official ⓘ |
| position |
back judge
ⓘ
referee ⓘ |
| previousPosition | back judge ⓘ |
| promotedTo | referee ⓘ |
| promotionEffectiveSeason | 2018 NFL season ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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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: Shawn Hochuli Description of subject: Shawn Hochuli is an American NFL official who followed his father Ed Hochuli into a prominent career as a referee.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shawn Hochuli – NFL referee
subject surface form:
Ed Hochuli