Rocky Long
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Rocky Long is an American football coach and former player best known for his successful tenure as a head coach and defensive strategist at the college level, particularly in the Mountain West Conference.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rocky Long canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2904279 — 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: Rocky Long Context triple: [San Diego State Aztecs football, notableCoach, Rocky Long]
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A.
Rocky Carroll
Rocky Carroll is an American actor best known for his role as Director Leon Vance on the long-running television series NCIS.
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B.
Randy Boyd
Randy Boyd is an American businessman and philanthropist who serves as the president of the University of Tennessee system.
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C.
Rulon Jeffs
Rulon Jeffs was the longtime prophet and president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, known for leading the polygamist sect before his son Warren Jeffs.
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D.
Dale Hunter
Dale Hunter is a former Canadian NHL center known for his gritty, physical play and leadership, most notably with the Washington Capitals.
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E.
Ed Brophy
Ed Brophy is an American boxing historian and executive best known for creating and leading the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York.
- 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: Rocky Long Target entity description: Rocky Long is an American football coach and former player best known for his successful tenure as a head coach and defensive strategist at the college level, particularly in the Mountain West Conference.
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A.
Rocky Carroll
Rocky Carroll is an American actor best known for his role as Director Leon Vance on the long-running television series NCIS.
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B.
Randy Boyd
Randy Boyd is an American businessman and philanthropist who serves as the president of the University of Tennessee system.
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C.
Rulon Jeffs
Rulon Jeffs was the longtime prophet and president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, known for leading the polygamist sect before his son Warren Jeffs.
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D.
Dale Hunter
Dale Hunter is a former Canadian NHL center known for his gritty, physical play and leadership, most notably with the Washington Capitals.
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E.
Ed Brophy
Ed Brophy is an American boxing historian and executive best known for creating and leading the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
ⓘ
American football player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| coachedLevel |
Football Bowl Subdivision
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS
|
| conference |
Mountain West Conference
ⓘ
Western Athletic Conference ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of New Mexico ⓘ |
| employer |
New Mexico Lobos
ⓘ
surface form:
New Mexico Lobos football
NM State Aggies ⓘ
surface form:
New Mexico State Aggies football
Oregon State University ⓘ San Diego State Aztecs football ⓘ San Diego State University ⓘ Syracuse Orange football ⓘ Syracuse University ⓘ University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ University of New Mexico ⓘ Wyoming Cowboys football team ⓘ
surface form:
Wyoming Cowboys football
|
| familyName | Long ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | college football coaching ⓘ |
| genre | defensive football coaching ⓘ |
| givenName | Rocky ⓘ |
| headCoachOf |
New Mexico Lobos
ⓘ
surface form:
New Mexico Lobos football
San Diego State Aztecs football ⓘ |
| knownFor |
3–3–5 defensive scheme usage
ⓘ
building strong defensive teams ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| leagueCoachedIn |
Mountain West Conference
ⓘ
Western Athletic Conference ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
New Mexico Lobos
ⓘ
surface form:
New Mexico Lobos football
|
| notableAchievement | multiple bowl game appearances as head coach ⓘ |
| notableFor |
college football coaching
ⓘ
defensive strategist ⓘ head coach in the Mountain West Conference ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
ⓘ
American football player ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | quarterback ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| role |
defensive backs coach
ⓘ
defensive coordinator ⓘ defensive strategist ⓘ head coach ⓘ quarterbacks coach ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| sportSpecialty | defense ⓘ |
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: Rocky Long Description of subject: Rocky Long is an American football coach and former player best known for his successful tenure as a head coach and defensive strategist at the college level, particularly in the Mountain West Conference.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.