Cal McNair
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Cal McNair is an American businessman and sports executive best known as the principal owner and top decision-maker of the NFL’s Houston Texans.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cal McNair canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1326857 — 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: Cal McNair Context triple: [Houston Texans, chairman, Cal McNair]
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A.
Tom Owens
Tom Owens is a former professional basketball player best known for his time in the ABA and NBA during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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B.
Rex Scouten
Rex Scouten was a longtime White House staff member who served multiple presidents in key roles overseeing the executive mansion’s operations and preservation.
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C.
Dolph Briscoe
Dolph Briscoe was an American rancher, businessman, and Democratic politician who served as the 41st governor of Texas from 1973 to 1979.
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D.
Pat Summerall
Pat Summerall was a renowned American sportscaster and former NFL placekicker best known for his long-running play-by-play partnership with John Madden on CBS and Fox football broadcasts.
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E.
Bud White
Bud White is a tough, morally driven Los Angeles police officer known for his violent methods and deep sense of justice in the crime drama "L.A. Confidential."
- 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: Cal McNair Target entity description: Cal McNair is an American businessman and sports executive best known as the principal owner and top decision-maker of the NFL’s Houston Texans.
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A.
Tom Owens
Tom Owens is a former professional basketball player best known for his time in the ABA and NBA during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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B.
Rex Scouten
Rex Scouten was a longtime White House staff member who served multiple presidents in key roles overseeing the executive mansion’s operations and preservation.
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C.
Dolph Briscoe
Dolph Briscoe was an American rancher, businessman, and Democratic politician who served as the 41st governor of Texas from 1973 to 1979.
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D.
Pat Summerall
Pat Summerall was a renowned American sportscaster and former NFL placekicker best known for his long-running play-by-play partnership with John Madden on CBS and Fox football broadcasts.
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E.
Bud White
Bud White is a tough, morally driven Los Angeles police officer known for his violent methods and deep sense of justice in the crime drama "L.A. Confidential."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
human ⓘ sports executive ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Houston, Texas, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Houston, Texas
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| businessDomain | professional American football ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Houston Texans ⓘ |
| familyName | McNair ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
business management
ⓘ
professional sports management ⓘ |
| givenName | Cal ⓘ |
| hasRole | franchise governor for the Houston Texans in NFL matters ⓘ |
| industry |
entertainment industry
ⓘ
sports industry ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| name | Cal McNair self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | principal owner of the Houston Texans ⓘ |
| notableOrganization | Houston Texans ⓘ |
| notableRole | top decision-maker for the Houston Texans ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football executive
ⓘ
businessman ⓘ sports executive ⓘ |
| owns | Houston Texans ⓘ |
| partOf |
Houston Texans
ⓘ
surface form:
Houston Texans ownership group
|
| positionHeld |
chairman of the Houston Texans
ⓘ
chief executive of the Houston Texans ⓘ principal owner of the Houston Texans ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Houston, Texas, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Houston, Texas
|
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: Cal McNair Description of subject: Cal McNair is an American businessman and sports executive best known as the principal owner and top decision-maker of the NFL’s Houston Texans.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.