Steve Janaszak
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Steve Janaszak is an American goaltender best known as a member of the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steve Janaszak canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2020784 — 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: Steve Janaszak Context triple: [1980 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team, player, Steve Janaszak]
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A.
Eric Szmanda
Eric Szmanda is an American actor best known for playing forensic investigator Greg Sanders on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
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B.
Mike Konopacki
Mike Konopacki is an American political cartoonist known for his labor- and social-justice-focused comics and graphic works.
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C.
David Giler
David Giler was an American screenwriter and film producer best known for his long-running involvement with the Alien franchise and his work at Brandywine Productions.
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D.
Jim Konstanty
Jim Konstanty was an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known for his standout 1950 season with the Philadelphia Phillies, during which he won the National League MVP award.
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E.
Andrew Goczkowski
Andrew Goczkowski is an American local government leader serving as the mayor of Des Plaines, Illinois.
- 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: Steve Janaszak Target entity description: Steve Janaszak is an American goaltender best known as a member of the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team.
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A.
Eric Szmanda
Eric Szmanda is an American actor best known for playing forensic investigator Greg Sanders on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
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B.
Mike Konopacki
Mike Konopacki is an American political cartoonist known for his labor- and social-justice-focused comics and graphic works.
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C.
David Giler
David Giler was an American screenwriter and film producer best known for his long-running involvement with the Alien franchise and his work at Brandywine Productions.
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D.
Jim Konstanty
Jim Konstanty was an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known for his standout 1950 season with the Philadelphia Phillies, during which he won the National League MVP award.
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E.
Andrew Goczkowski
Andrew Goczkowski is an American local government leader serving as the mayor of Des Plaines, Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
goaltender
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human ⓘ ice hockey player ⓘ |
| competitionClass | amateur ice hockey ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Steve ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | United States men's national ice hockey team ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | member of the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team ⓘ |
| occupation | ice hockey player ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1980 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team
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1980 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| partOf |
Miracle on Ice (1981 TV film)
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surface form:
"Miracle on Ice" game context
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| positionPlayed | goaltender ⓘ |
| representedCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| sportDiscipline | men's ice hockey ⓘ |
| teamRole | goaltender ⓘ |
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: Steve Janaszak Description of subject: Steve Janaszak is an American goaltender best known as a member of the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.