Doug Williams
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Doug Williams is a former NFL quarterback best known for leading the Washington Redskins to a Super Bowl XXII victory as the game's MVP and for being the first Black quarterback to start and win a Super Bowl.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T885642 — 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: Doug Williams Context triple: [Tampa Bay Buccaneers, notableQuarterback, Doug Williams]
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Jim Fassel
Jim Fassel was an American football coach best known for leading the New York Giants to the Super Bowl during his tenure as their head coach in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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Phil Simms
Phil Simms is a former NFL quarterback best known for leading the New York Giants to two Super Bowl titles and earning MVP honors in Super Bowl XXI.
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Dan Reeves
Dan Reeves was a longtime NFL head coach and former player best known for leading the Denver Broncos to multiple Super Bowl appearances and later coaching the New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons.
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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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Tom Coughlin
Tom Coughlin is an American football coach best known for leading the New York Giants to two Super Bowl championships.
- 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: Doug Williams Target entity description: Doug Williams is a former NFL quarterback best known for leading the Washington Redskins to a Super Bowl XXII victory as the game's MVP and for being the first Black quarterback to start and win a Super Bowl.
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A.
Jim Fassel
Jim Fassel was an American football coach best known for leading the New York Giants to the Super Bowl during his tenure as their head coach in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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B.
Phil Simms
Phil Simms is a former NFL quarterback best known for leading the New York Giants to two Super Bowl titles and earning MVP honors in Super Bowl XXI.
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C.
Dan Reeves
Dan Reeves was a longtime NFL head coach and former player best known for leading the Denver Broncos to multiple Super Bowl appearances and later coaching the New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons.
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D.
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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E.
Tom Coughlin
Tom Coughlin is an American football coach best known for leading the New York Giants to two Super Bowl championships.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Doug Williams Description of subject: Doug Williams is a former NFL quarterback best known for leading the Washington Redskins to a Super Bowl XXII victory as the game's MVP and for being the first Black quarterback to start and win a Super Bowl.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Doug Williams became the first Black quarterback to start a Super Bowl
this entity surface form:
Doug Williams became the first Black quarterback to win a Super Bowl