Ray Perkins
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Ray Perkins was an American football coach best known for leading the New York Giants in the early 1980s and later succeeding Bear Bryant as head coach at the University of Alabama.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ray Perkins canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1842203 — 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: Ray Perkins Context triple: [1981 NFC Wild Card Game, GiantsHeadCoach, Ray Perkins]
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A.
Rance Howard
Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
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B.
Ralph Nelson
Ralph Nelson was an American film and television director, producer, and writer known for works such as "Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight."
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C.
Joseph W. Young
Joseph W. Young was an American real estate developer and city planner best known for creating and developing the planned community of Hollywood, Florida, in the early 20th century.
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D.
Adolph Green
Adolph Green was an American playwright, lyricist, and screenwriter best known for his long collaboration with Betty Comden on classic Broadway musicals and Hollywood films.
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E.
Dick Van Patten
Dick Van Patten was an American actor best known for his role as the father on the television series "Eight Is Enough" and for numerous character roles in film and TV comedies.
- 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: Ray Perkins Target entity description: Ray Perkins was an American football coach best known for leading the New York Giants in the early 1980s and later succeeding Bear Bryant as head coach at the University of Alabama.
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A.
Rance Howard
Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
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B.
Ralph Nelson
Ralph Nelson was an American film and television director, producer, and writer known for works such as "Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight."
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C.
Joseph W. Young
Joseph W. Young was an American real estate developer and city planner best known for creating and developing the planned community of Hollywood, Florida, in the early 20th century.
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D.
Adolph Green
Adolph Green was an American playwright, lyricist, and screenwriter best known for his long collaboration with Betty Comden on classic Broadway musicals and Hollywood films.
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E.
Dick Van Patten
Dick Van Patten was an American actor best known for his role as the father on the television series "Eight Is Enough" and for numerous character roles in film and TV comedies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
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human ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Alabama ⓘ |
| coachedInLeague |
National Football League
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Southeastern Conference ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1941-12-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-12-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Alabama ⓘ |
| employer |
Arkansas State University
ⓘ
New York Giants ⓘ Tampa Bay Buccaneers ⓘ University of Alabama ⓘ |
| endTime |
head coach of Alabama Crimson Tide: 1986
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head coach of Arkansas State: 1993 ⓘ head coach of New York Giants: 1982 ⓘ head coach of Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 1990 ⓘ |
| familyName | Perkins ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Ray ⓘ |
| headCoachOf |
Arkansas State University
ⓘ
surface form:
Arkansas State University football team
New York Giants ⓘ Tampa Bay Buccaneers ⓘ Alabama Crimson Tide football ⓘ
surface form:
University of Alabama football team
|
| headCoachPosition | successor to Bear Bryant at Alabama ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Alabama Crimson Tide football
ⓘ
surface form:
Alabama Crimson Tide football team
Indianapolis Colts ⓘ
surface form:
Baltimore Colts
|
| name | Ray Perkins self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | rebuilding the New York Giants in the early 1980s ⓘ |
| notableWork | succeeded Bear Bryant as head coach at the University of Alabama ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
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American football executive ⓘ American football player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Petal, Mississippi, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
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surface form:
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States
|
| playedCollegeFootballFor |
Alabama Crimson Tide football
ⓘ
surface form:
Alabama Crimson Tide
|
| positionPlayed | wide receiver ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| startTime |
head coach of Alabama Crimson Tide: 1983
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head coach of Arkansas State: 1992 ⓘ head coach of New York Giants: 1979 ⓘ head coach of Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 1987 ⓘ |
| stateOfBirth | Mississippi ⓘ |
| stateOfDeath | Mississippi ⓘ |
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: Ray Perkins Description of subject: Ray Perkins was an American football coach best known for leading the New York Giants in the early 1980s and later succeeding Bear Bryant as head coach at the University of Alabama.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.