John Parry
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John Parry is a former NFL official who served as the head referee in multiple Super Bowls and was known for his long career in professional football officiating.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Parry canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T423238 — 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: John Parry Context triple: [Super Bowl LIII, referee, John Parry]
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A.
John Llewellin
John Llewellin was a British Conservative politician who served as a government minister during World War II, notably in roles connected with wartime production and logistics.
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B.
Alexander Parris
Alexander Parris was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer best known for his austere Greek Revival and early granite public buildings in New England.
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C.
John Brett
John Brett was a 19th-century British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his highly detailed landscapes and maritime scenes.
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D.
Gareth Unwin
Gareth Unwin is a British film producer best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the historical drama "The King’s Speech."
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E.
Edward Thomas Wailes
Edward Thomas Wailes was an American diplomat and Foreign Service officer who served in several key ambassadorial posts during the mid-20th century.
- 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: John Parry Target entity description: John Parry is a former NFL official who served as the head referee in multiple Super Bowls and was known for his long career in professional football officiating.
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A.
John Llewellin
John Llewellin was a British Conservative politician who served as a government minister during World War II, notably in roles connected with wartime production and logistics.
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B.
Alexander Parris
Alexander Parris was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer best known for his austere Greek Revival and early granite public buildings in New England.
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C.
John Brett
John Brett was a 19th-century British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his highly detailed landscapes and maritime scenes.
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D.
Gareth Unwin
Gareth Unwin is a British film producer best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the historical drama "The King’s Speech."
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E.
Edward Thomas Wailes
Edward Thomas Wailes was an American diplomat and Foreign Service officer who served in several key ambassadorial posts during the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football official
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human ⓘ |
| careerStatus | retired ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | National Football League ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | American football ⓘ |
| genre | professional sports officiating ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
enforcing NFL rules on the field
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officiating professional football games ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
long career in professional football officiating
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officiating in the National Football League ⓘ serving as head referee in multiple Super Bowls ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
NFL officiating crews
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surface form:
NFL officiating staff
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| notableAchievement | selected to officiate multiple Super Bowls ⓘ |
| notableWork | officiating Super Bowl games ⓘ |
| occupation |
NFL official
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referee ⓘ |
| partOf |
NFL officiating crews
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surface form:
NFL officiating crew
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| positionHeld | referee ⓘ |
| role |
crew chief in NFL officiating crews
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head referee in NFL games ⓘ |
| 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: John Parry Description of subject: John Parry is a former NFL official who served as the head referee in multiple Super Bowls and was known for his long career in professional football officiating.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.