Jon Cornish
E221103
Jon Cornish is a former Canadian Football League star running back who became a prominent community leader and chancellor of the University of Calgary.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jon Cornish canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1177313 — 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: Jon Cornish Context triple: [University of Calgary, hasChancellor, Jon Cornish]
-
A.
Keith Scholey
Keith Scholey is a British wildlife filmmaker and producer known for creating and overseeing major nature documentaries, including the acclaimed series Our Planet.
-
B.
Graeme Revell
Graeme Revell is a New Zealand-born composer best known for his atmospheric film scores across genres including horror, action, and science fiction.
-
C.
Keith Teare
Keith Teare is a British technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the influential tech news site TechCrunch.
-
D.
Andrew Lesnie
Andrew Lesnie was an Australian cinematographer best known for his Oscar-winning work on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
-
E.
Christopher Vokes
Christopher Vokes was a Canadian Army major-general in the Second World War, known for his often controversial but determined leadership in the Italian Campaign and later in Northwest Europe.
- 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: Jon Cornish Target entity description: Jon Cornish is a former Canadian Football League star running back who became a prominent community leader and chancellor of the University of Calgary.
-
A.
Keith Scholey
Keith Scholey is a British wildlife filmmaker and producer known for creating and overseeing major nature documentaries, including the acclaimed series Our Planet.
-
B.
Graeme Revell
Graeme Revell is a New Zealand-born composer best known for his atmospheric film scores across genres including horror, action, and science fiction.
-
C.
Keith Teare
Keith Teare is a British technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the influential tech news site TechCrunch.
-
D.
Andrew Lesnie
Andrew Lesnie was an Australian cinematographer best known for his Oscar-winning work on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
-
E.
Christopher Vokes
Christopher Vokes was a Canadian Army major-general in the Second World War, known for his often controversial but determined leadership in the Italian Campaign and later in Northwest Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian football player
ⓘ
human ⓘ running back ⓘ university chancellor ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
CFL Most Outstanding Player Award
ⓘ
surface form:
CFL Most Outstanding Canadian Award
CFL Most Outstanding Player Award ⓘ Grey Cup champion ⓘ Lou Marsh Trophy ⓘ Tom Pate Memorial Award ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1984-11-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Kansas ⓘ |
| employer | University of Calgary ⓘ |
| endTime | 2015 (CFL retirement year) ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Black Canadian ⓘ |
| familyName | Cornish ⓘ |
| givenName | Jon ⓘ |
| hallOfFame | Canadian Football Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| hasWon |
multiple CFL rushing titles
ⓘ
multiple Grey Cup championships with Calgary Stampeders ⓘ |
| inductedInHallOfFame |
Canadian Football Hall of Fame
ⓘ
surface form:
2019 (Canadian Football Hall of Fame)
|
| jerseyNumber | 9 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
CFL career with the Calgary Stampeders
ⓘ
leadership in Calgary community initiatives ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| league | Canadian Football League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Calgary Stampeders ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | one of the most productive Canadian-born running backs in CFL history ⓘ |
| notableWork |
advocacy for diversity and inclusion
ⓘ
community leadership in Calgary ⓘ |
| occupation |
Canadian football player
ⓘ
community leader ⓘ university chancellor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New Westminster
ⓘ
surface form:
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
|
| playedCollegeFootballFor | Kansas Jayhawks football ⓘ |
| playedFor | Calgary Stampeders ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chancellor of the University of Calgary ⓘ |
| positionPlayedOnTeam | running back ⓘ |
| residence |
Calgary
ⓘ
surface form:
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | Canadian football ⓘ |
| startTime |
2007 (CFL debut season)
ⓘ
2022 (start of term as chancellor of the University of Calgary) ⓘ |
| wearsNumber | 9 ⓘ |
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: Jon Cornish Description of subject: Jon Cornish is a former Canadian Football League star running back who became a prominent community leader and chancellor of the University of Calgary.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.