Cliff Illig
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Cliff Illig is an American businessman and co-founder of Cerner Corporation who became a principal owner and executive leader of the Major League Soccer club Sporting Kansas City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cliff Illig canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T553305 — 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: Cliff Illig Context triple: [Sporting Kansas City, chairman, Cliff Illig]
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A.
Tom Luddy
Tom Luddy was an American film producer, curator, and influential cinephile best known as a co-founder and long-time guiding force of the Telluride Film Festival.
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B.
Lee Clow
Lee Clow is a legendary American advertising executive best known for his groundbreaking work at TBWA\Chiat\Day, where he helped create iconic campaigns for Apple and other major brands.
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C.
Ted Cheesman
Ted Cheesman was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the 1933 monster film "King Kong."
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D.
Merritt Paulson
Merritt Paulson is an American sports executive best known for owning and leading Portland’s professional soccer clubs, including the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer and the Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League.
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E.
Joseph Buloff
Joseph Buloff was a Lithuanian-born American actor and director known for his work in Yiddish theater and on Broadway.
- 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: Cliff Illig Target entity description: Cliff Illig is an American businessman and co-founder of Cerner Corporation who became a principal owner and executive leader of the Major League Soccer club Sporting Kansas City.
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A.
Tom Luddy
Tom Luddy was an American film producer, curator, and influential cinephile best known as a co-founder and long-time guiding force of the Telluride Film Festival.
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B.
Lee Clow
Lee Clow is a legendary American advertising executive best known for his groundbreaking work at TBWA\Chiat\Day, where he helped create iconic campaigns for Apple and other major brands.
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C.
Ted Cheesman
Ted Cheesman was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the 1933 monster film "King Kong."
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D.
Merritt Paulson
Merritt Paulson is an American sports executive best known for owning and leading Portland’s professional soccer clubs, including the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer and the Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League.
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E.
Joseph Buloff
Joseph Buloff was a Lithuanian-born American actor and director known for his work in Yiddish theater and on Broadway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football club
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businessperson ⓘ company ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Cerner
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surface form:
Cerner Corporation
Major League Soccer ⓘ Sporting Kansas City ⓘ |
| basedIn | Kansas City metropolitan area ⓘ |
| businessRegion | Kansas City metropolitan area ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Cerner
ⓘ
surface form:
Cerner Corporation
|
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Cerner
ⓘ
surface form:
Cerner Corporation
|
| industry |
health information technology
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health information technology ⓘ professional sports ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leadership in Major League Soccer
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leadership in health IT sector ⓘ |
| league | Major League Soccer ⓘ |
| memberOf | Sporting Club ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-founding Cerner Corporation
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ownership of Sporting Kansas City ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
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entrepreneur ⓘ |
| owns | Sporting Kansas City ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
executive at Cerner Corporation
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executive leader of Sporting Kansas City ⓘ principal owner of Sporting Kansas City ⓘ vice chairman of Cerner Corporation ⓘ |
| sport | soccer ⓘ |
| sportsTeamOwnerOf | Sporting Kansas City ⓘ |
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: Cliff Illig Description of subject: Cliff Illig is an American businessman and co-founder of Cerner Corporation who became a principal owner and executive leader of the Major League Soccer club Sporting Kansas City.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.