David Akers
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David Akers is a former American football placekicker best known for his long and successful NFL career, primarily with the Philadelphia Eagles, during which he became one of the league’s most accurate and highest-scoring kickers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Akers canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1842241 — 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)
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Target entity: David Akers Context triple: [2006 NFC Wild Card Game, gameWinningScoreBy, David Akers]
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A.
Adam Vinatieri
Adam Vinatieri is a former NFL placekicker renowned for his clutch performances and game-winning field goals in multiple Super Bowls, primarily with the New England Patriots.
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B.
Jay Feely
Jay Feely is a former NFL placekicker who became a football television analyst and sideline reporter.
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C.
Byron Leftwich
Byron Leftwich is a former NFL quarterback, best known for his tenure with the Jacksonville Jaguars and later work as an offensive coordinator, including for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ Super Bowl–winning offense.
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D.
Kerry Collins
Kerry Collins is a former NFL quarterback best known for leading the New York Giants to the Super Bowl and for his long career with multiple teams, including the Carolina Panthers and Tennessee Titans.
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E.
Matt Eberflus
Matt Eberflus is an American football coach and former NFL defensive coordinator who serves as the head coach of the Chicago Bears.
- 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: David Akers Target entity description: David Akers is a former American football placekicker best known for his long and successful NFL career, primarily with the Philadelphia Eagles, during which he became one of the league’s most accurate and highest-scoring kickers.
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A.
Adam Vinatieri
Adam Vinatieri is a former NFL placekicker renowned for his clutch performances and game-winning field goals in multiple Super Bowls, primarily with the New England Patriots.
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B.
Jay Feely
Jay Feely is a former NFL placekicker who became a football television analyst and sideline reporter.
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C.
Byron Leftwich
Byron Leftwich is a former NFL quarterback, best known for his tenure with the Jacksonville Jaguars and later work as an offensive coordinator, including for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ Super Bowl–winning offense.
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D.
Kerry Collins
Kerry Collins is a former NFL quarterback best known for leading the New York Giants to the Super Bowl and for his long career with multiple teams, including the Carolina Panthers and Tennessee Titans.
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E.
Matt Eberflus
Matt Eberflus is an American football coach and former NFL defensive coordinator who serves as the head coach of the Chicago Bears.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
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human ⓘ placekicker ⓘ |
| careerStatus | former player ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | University of Louisville ⓘ |
| collegeTeam |
Louisville Cardinals
ⓘ
surface form:
Louisville Cardinals football
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1974-12-09 ⓘ |
| eraOfActivity |
2000s
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early 2010s ⓘ late 1990s ⓘ |
| familyName | Akers ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hallOfFame |
Philadelphia Eagles
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surface form:
Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame
|
| handedness | right-footed ⓘ |
| height | approximately 178 cm ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
clutch long-distance field goals
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durability and consistency as a kicker ⓘ |
| name | David Akers self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
high career scoring totals as a kicker
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high field goal accuracy ⓘ long NFL career as a placekicker ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Lexington, Kentucky
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surface form:
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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| playedForTeam |
Atlanta Falcons
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Carolina Panthers ⓘ Detroit Lions ⓘ Philadelphia Eagles ⓘ San Francisco 49ers ⓘ Washington Commanders ⓘ
surface form:
Washington Redskins
|
| playedInLeague | National Football League ⓘ |
| playedInPositionGroup | special teams ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | placekicker ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| retiredFrom | professional football ⓘ |
| selectedFirstTeamAllPro | 2 ⓘ |
| selectedToProBowl | 6 ⓘ |
| setRecord |
NFL single-season field goals made record (at time of achievement)
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NFL single-season scoring record for a kicker (at time of achievement) ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| teamRecordHolder | Philadelphia Eagles all-time leading scorer ⓘ |
| undraftedYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| weight | approximately 91 kg ⓘ |
| woreNumberForTeam |
2 for Detroit Lions
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2 for Philadelphia Eagles ⓘ 2 for San Francisco 49ers ⓘ |
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: David Akers Description of subject: David Akers is a former American football placekicker best known for his long and successful NFL career, primarily with the Philadelphia Eagles, during which he became one of the league’s most accurate and highest-scoring kickers.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.