Sean Taylor
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Sean Taylor was a hard-hitting Pro Bowl safety for the Washington NFL franchise whose promising career was tragically cut short by his death in 2007.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sean Taylor canonical | 3 |
| Sean Michael Maurice Taylor | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11150 — 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: Sean Taylor Context triple: [Washington Commanders, notableAlumnus, Sean Taylor]
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A.
Christopher Jones
Christopher Jones was the English mariner who captained the Mayflower on its historic 1620 voyage carrying the Pilgrims to New England.
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B.
Neal
Neal is a masculine given name of Gaelic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Raleigh Becket
Raleigh Becket is the main Jaeger pilot protagonist in the science fiction film "Pacific Rim," known for co-piloting the giant robot Gipsy Danger against invading Kaiju.
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D.
Cedric Maxwell
Cedric Maxwell is a former NBA forward best known for his key role in the Boston Celtics’ 1981 and 1984 championship teams and for earning the 1981 NBA Finals MVP award.
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E.
Tony James
Tony James is an American financier and executive best known as the longtime president and chief operating officer of Blackstone and for his leadership roles at major cultural institutions.
- 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: Sean Taylor Target entity description: Sean Taylor was a hard-hitting Pro Bowl safety for the Washington NFL franchise whose promising career was tragically cut short by his death in 2007.
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A.
Christopher Jones
Christopher Jones was the English mariner who captained the Mayflower on its historic 1620 voyage carrying the Pilgrims to New England.
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B.
Neal
Neal is a masculine given name of Gaelic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Raleigh Becket
Raleigh Becket is the main Jaeger pilot protagonist in the science fiction film "Pacific Rim," known for co-piloting the giant robot Gipsy Danger against invading Kaiju.
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D.
Cedric Maxwell
Cedric Maxwell is a former NBA forward best known for his key role in the Boston Celtics’ 1981 and 1984 championship teams and for earning the 1981 NBA Finals MVP award.
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E.
Tony James
Tony James is an American financier and executive best known as the longtime president and chief operating officer of Blackstone and for his leadership roles at major cultural institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | BCS national champion ⓘ |
| birthName |
Sean Taylor
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Sean Michael Maurice Taylor
|
| causeOfDeath | homicide by gunshot ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | University of Miami ⓘ |
| collegeSeasonHighlighted | 2003 season with Miami Hurricanes ⓘ |
| conferencePlayedInCollege | Big East Conference ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1983-04-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2007-11-27 ⓘ |
| draftedBy |
Washington Commanders
ⓘ
surface form:
Washington Redskins
|
| draftPickNumber | 5 ⓘ |
| draftRound | 1 ⓘ |
| draftYear | 2004 ⓘ |
| familyName | Taylor ⓘ |
| fullName |
Sean Taylor
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Sean Michael Maurice Taylor
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Sean ⓘ |
| hallOfFame | Washington Ring of Fame ⓘ |
| height | approximately 6 ft 2 in ⓘ |
| highSchoolAttended | Gulliver Preparatory School ⓘ |
| honor | posthumous Pro Bowl selection in 2007 season ⓘ |
| honoredBy |
Washington Commanders
ⓘ
surface form:
Washington Commanders organization
|
| jerseyNumber | 21 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ball-hawking ability in the secondary
ⓘ
hard-hitting playing style ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| legacy | widely regarded as one of the most talented young safeties of his era ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Washington Commanders
ⓘ
surface form:
Washington Redskins
|
| nflDebutSeason | 2004 ⓘ |
| NFLTeam |
Washington Commanders
ⓘ
surface form:
Washington Redskins
|
| notableEvent | fatally shot during a home invasion in November 2007 ⓘ |
| occupation | professional American football player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Miami, Florida, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Miami, Florida, United States ⓘ |
| playedForCity | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| playedForCollegeTeam | Miami Hurricanes football ⓘ |
| playedIn | FedExField home games with Washington Redskins ⓘ |
| positionCategory | defensive back ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | safety ⓘ |
| proBowlSelection |
2006
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2007 ⓘ |
| retiredNumber | 21 by Washington franchise (honored) ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| weight | approximately 212 lb ⓘ |
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: Sean Taylor Description of subject: Sean Taylor was a hard-hitting Pro Bowl safety for the Washington NFL franchise whose promising career was tragically cut short by his death in 2007.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sean Michael Maurice Taylor
this entity surface form:
Sean Michael Maurice Taylor