Plaxico Burress
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Plaxico Burress is a former NFL wide receiver best known for his time with the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants, including catching the game-winning touchdown in Super Bowl XLII.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Plaxico Burress canonical | 7 |
| Plaxico | 2 |
| Plaxico Antonio Burress | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T168730 — 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: Plaxico Burress Context triple: [Rikers Island, hasNotableInmate, Plaxico Burress]
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A.
Darrell Green
Darrell Green is a Hall of Fame NFL cornerback renowned for his exceptional speed and longevity during a 20-year career with Washington’s football franchise.
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B.
Kurt Warner
Kurt Warner is a former NFL quarterback and Hall of Famer best known for his remarkable rise from undrafted free agent to Super Bowl champion and two-time league MVP.
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C.
Emmitt Smith
Emmitt Smith is a Pro Football Hall of Fame running back best known as the NFL’s all-time leading rusher and a three-time Super Bowl champion with the Dallas Cowboys.
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D.
Troy Aikman
Troy Aikman is a Hall of Fame former NFL quarterback best known for leading the Dallas Cowboys to three Super Bowl titles in the 1990s.
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E.
Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor is a legendary former NFL linebacker widely regarded as one of the greatest defensive players in football history.
- 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: Plaxico Burress Target entity description: Plaxico Burress is a former NFL wide receiver best known for his time with the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants, including catching the game-winning touchdown in Super Bowl XLII.
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A.
Darrell Green
Darrell Green is a Hall of Fame NFL cornerback renowned for his exceptional speed and longevity during a 20-year career with Washington’s football franchise.
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B.
Kurt Warner
Kurt Warner is a former NFL quarterback and Hall of Famer best known for his remarkable rise from undrafted free agent to Super Bowl champion and two-time league MVP.
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C.
Emmitt Smith
Emmitt Smith is a Pro Football Hall of Fame running back best known as the NFL’s all-time leading rusher and a three-time Super Bowl champion with the Dallas Cowboys.
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D.
Troy Aikman
Troy Aikman is a Hall of Fame former NFL quarterback best known for leading the Dallas Cowboys to three Super Bowl titles in the 1990s.
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E.
Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor is a legendary former NFL linebacker widely regarded as one of the greatest defensive players in football history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
ⓘ
human ⓘ wide receiver ⓘ |
| collegeAttended |
Michigan State College
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan State University
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| criminalCharge | criminal possession of a weapon ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1977-08-12 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Pittsburgh Steelers ⓘ |
| draftPickNumber | 8 ⓘ |
| draftRound | 1 ⓘ |
| draftYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| familyName | Burress ⓘ |
| fullName |
Plaxico Burress
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Plaxico Antonio Burress
|
| givenName |
Plaxico Burress
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Plaxico
|
| handedness | right-handed ⓘ |
| hasChild |
daughter
ⓘ
son ⓘ |
| height |
1.96 m
ⓘ
6 ft 5 in ⓘ |
| highSchoolAttended |
Fork Union Military Academy
ⓘ
Green Run High School ⓘ |
| incident | accidental self-inflicted gunshot in New York nightclub ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber |
17
ⓘ
80 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
catching game-winning touchdown in Super Bowl XLII
ⓘ
playing for the New York Giants ⓘ playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers ⓘ |
| leagueParticipatedIn | National Football League ⓘ |
| nflDebutSeason | 2000 ⓘ |
| notableWork | game-winning touchdown catch in Super Bowl XLII ⓘ |
| opponentInSuperBowlXLII | New England Patriots ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Super Bowl XLII ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Norfolk, Virginia
ⓘ
surface form:
Norfolk, Virginia, United States
|
| playedFor |
New York Giants
ⓘ
New York Jets ⓘ Pittsburgh Steelers ⓘ Pittsburgh Steelers ⓘ
surface form:
Pittsburgh Steelers practice squad
|
| positionPlayed | wide receiver ⓘ |
| retiredFrom | National Football League ⓘ |
| servedPrisonTime | yes ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| spouse | Tiffany Burress ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| superBowlXLIIResult | New York Giants victory ⓘ |
| teamInSuperBowlXLII | New York Giants ⓘ |
| weight |
105 kg
ⓘ
232 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: Plaxico Burress Description of subject: Plaxico Burress is a former NFL wide receiver best known for his time with the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants, including catching the game-winning touchdown in Super Bowl XLII.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Plaxico Antonio Burress
this entity surface form:
Plaxico
subject surface form:
Plaxico Burress
this entity surface form:
Plaxico