Tom Flores
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Tom Flores is a former American football coach and quarterback best known for leading the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders to two Super Bowl victories and becoming one of the first Latino head coaches to win an NFL championship.
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| Tom Flores canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Tom Flores Context triple: [Super Bowl XV, headCoachWinningTeam, Tom Flores]
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A.
Chuck Noll
Chuck Noll was a legendary NFL head coach who led the Pittsburgh Steelers to four Super Bowl titles in the 1970s and is widely credited with building one of the greatest dynasties in football history.
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B.
Marv Levy
Marv Levy is a Hall of Fame American football coach best known for leading the Buffalo Bills to four consecutive Super Bowl appearances in the early 1990s.
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C.
Bud Grant
Bud Grant was a legendary American football coach best known for leading the Minnesota Vikings to multiple Super Bowl appearances and for his stoic, disciplined coaching style.
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D.
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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E.
Jerry Glanville
Jerry Glanville is an American football coach and former NFL head coach known for his aggressive defensive style, flamboyant personality, and tenures leading the Houston Oilers and Atlanta Falcons.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Tom Flores Target entity description: Tom Flores is a former American football coach and quarterback best known for leading the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders to two Super Bowl victories and becoming one of the first Latino head coaches to win an NFL championship.
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A.
Chuck Noll
Chuck Noll was a legendary NFL head coach who led the Pittsburgh Steelers to four Super Bowl titles in the 1970s and is widely credited with building one of the greatest dynasties in football history.
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B.
Marv Levy
Marv Levy is a Hall of Fame American football coach best known for leading the Buffalo Bills to four consecutive Super Bowl appearances in the early 1990s.
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C.
Bud Grant
Bud Grant was a legendary American football coach best known for leading the Minnesota Vikings to multiple Super Bowl appearances and for his stoic, disciplined coaching style.
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D.
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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E.
Jerry Glanville
Jerry Glanville is an American football coach and former NFL head coach known for his aggressive defensive style, flamboyant personality, and tenures leading the Houston Oilers and Atlanta Falcons.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
ⓘ
American football player ⓘ human ⓘ quarterback ⓘ |
| birthName | Thomas Raymond Flores ⓘ |
| coachedTeam |
Las Vegas Raiders
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles Raiders
Las Vegas Raiders ⓘ
surface form:
Oakland Raiders
Seattle Seahawks ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | University of the Pacific ⓘ |
| collegeTeamPlayedFor | Pacific Tigers football ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1937-03-21 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Mexican American ⓘ |
| familyName | Flores ⓘ |
| fullName | Thomas Raymond Flores ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| headCoachOf |
Las Vegas Raiders
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles Raiders
Las Vegas Raiders ⓘ
surface form:
Oakland Raiders
Seattle Seahawks ⓘ |
| heritage | Latino ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
being a pioneering Latino head coach in the NFL
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leading the Raiders to two Super Bowl victories ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 15 ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| leaguePlayedIn |
American Football League
ⓘ
National Football League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsHallOfFame | Pro Football Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| nflHeadCoachPostseasonRecord | 8–3 ⓘ |
| nflHeadCoachRegularSeasonRecord | 97–87 ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
first person to win a Super Bowl as a player, assistant coach, and head coach
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one of the first Latino head coaches to win a Super Bowl ⓘ won Super Bowl XV as head coach of the Oakland Raiders ⓘ won Super Bowl XVIII as head coach of the Los Angeles Raiders ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
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American football player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Fresno
ⓘ
surface form:
Fresno, California, United States
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| playedFor |
Buffalo Bills
ⓘ
Kansas City Chiefs ⓘ Las Vegas Raiders ⓘ
surface form:
Oakland Raiders
|
| positionPlayed | quarterback ⓘ |
| proFootballHallOfFameInductionYear | 2021 ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| servedAs |
assistant coach for the Oakland Raiders
ⓘ
general manager of the Seattle Seahawks ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| superBowlTitlesAsHeadCoach | 2 ⓘ |
| teamSuperBowlXV |
Las Vegas Raiders
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surface form:
Oakland Raiders
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| teamSuperBowlXVIII |
Las Vegas Raiders
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surface form:
Los Angeles Raiders
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How these facts were elicited
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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: Tom Flores Description of subject: Tom Flores is a former American football coach and quarterback best known for leading the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders to two Super Bowl victories and becoming one of the first Latino head coaches to win an NFL championship.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.