Jerry Markbreit
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Jerry Markbreit is a former National Football League official renowned as one of the league’s most prominent referees, working numerous high-profile games including multiple Super Bowls.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jerry Markbreit canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2230849 — 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: Jerry Markbreit Context triple: [Super Bowl XVII, referee, Jerry Markbreit]
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A.
August Eberstein
August Eberstein was a German engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the original creators of the Montblanc luxury fountain pen brand in the early 20th century.
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B.
William Gleason
William Gleason was a member of the prominent Gleason family associated with American industrialist and engineer Kate Gleason.
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C.
Marvin Miller
Marvin Miller was a pioneering American labor leader who transformed Major League Baseball by building the players’ union into a powerful force that secured free agency, salary arbitration, and major gains in players’ rights and compensation.
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D.
Jerry Krause
Jerry Krause was the longtime general manager of the Chicago Bulls, best known for assembling the Michael Jordan–led dynasty that dominated the NBA in the 1990s.
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E.
Kenneth Wayne Dryden
Kenneth Wayne Dryden is a Canadian former NHL goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens, a Hall of Famer, author, and former politician.
- 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: Jerry Markbreit Target entity description: Jerry Markbreit is a former National Football League official renowned as one of the league’s most prominent referees, working numerous high-profile games including multiple Super Bowls.
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A.
August Eberstein
August Eberstein was a German engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the original creators of the Montblanc luxury fountain pen brand in the early 20th century.
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B.
William Gleason
William Gleason was a member of the prominent Gleason family associated with American industrialist and engineer Kate Gleason.
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C.
Marvin Miller
Marvin Miller was a pioneering American labor leader who transformed Major League Baseball by building the players’ union into a powerful force that secured free agency, salary arbitration, and major gains in players’ rights and compensation.
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D.
Jerry Krause
Jerry Krause was the longtime general manager of the Chicago Bulls, best known for assembling the Michael Jordan–led dynasty that dominated the NBA in the 1990s.
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E.
Kenneth Wayne Dryden
Kenneth Wayne Dryden is a Canadian former NHL goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens, a Hall of Famer, author, and former politician.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football official
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National Football League referee ⓘ human ⓘ |
| careerStatus | former NFL official ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | National Football League ⓘ |
| familyName | Markbreit ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American football refereeing
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sports officiating ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Jerry ⓘ |
| hasNotableGameType |
NFL playoff games
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Super Bowl ⓘ regular-season NFL games ⓘ |
| industry | professional sports ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsBody |
NFL officiating crews
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surface form:
National Football League officiating staff
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| name | Jerry Markbreit self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the NFL’s most prominent referees
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officiating multiple Super Bowls ⓘ officiating numerous high-profile NFL games ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football official
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referee ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | referee ⓘ |
| reputation |
high-profile game official
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renowned NFL referee ⓘ |
| retired | true ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
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: Jerry Markbreit Description of subject: Jerry Markbreit is a former National Football League official renowned as one of the league’s most prominent referees, working numerous high-profile games including multiple Super Bowls.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.