Bob McElwee
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Bob McElwee is a former National Football League official best known for serving as the referee in multiple Super Bowls and for his long, distinguished career in professional football officiating.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bob McElwee canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2248534 — 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: Bob McElwee Context triple: [Super Bowl XXII, referee, Bob McElwee]
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A.
Thomas McElwee
Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
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B.
Bob McFadden
Bob McFadden was an American voice actor and impressionist known for his work in animated television specials and cartoons from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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C.
Ed McCauley
Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
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D.
Robert McKean
Robert McKean was a son of American statesman and signer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas McKean.
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E.
Barton MacLane
Barton MacLane was an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Hollywood films and later for his work in early television.
- 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: Bob McElwee Target entity description: Bob McElwee is a former National Football League official best known for serving as the referee in multiple Super Bowls and for his long, distinguished career in professional football officiating.
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A.
Thomas McElwee
Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
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B.
Bob McFadden
Bob McFadden was an American voice actor and impressionist known for his work in animated television specials and cartoons from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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C.
Ed McCauley
Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
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D.
Robert McKean
Robert McKean was a son of American statesman and signer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas McKean.
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E.
Barton MacLane
Barton MacLane was an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Hollywood films and later for his work in early television.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football official
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human ⓘ |
| activityStartContext | professional football officiating ⓘ |
| careerStatus | retired ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| domain | professional sports ⓘ |
| employer | National Football League ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American football officiating
ⓘ
sports officiating ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasNotableCharacteristic |
highly experienced NFL referee
ⓘ
known for professionalism and consistency ⓘ |
| hasRole |
referee in Super Bowl XXII
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referee in Super Bowl XXVIII ⓘ referee in Super Bowl XXXIV ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| leagueWorkedIn | National Football League ⓘ |
| memberOf | NFL officiating staff ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinguished service as an NFL referee
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long career in professional football officiating ⓘ officiating multiple Super Bowls as referee ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football official
ⓘ
National Football League official ⓘ |
| positionInOfficiatingCrew | referee ⓘ |
| refereedCompetition |
Super Bowl XXII
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Super Bowl XXVIII ⓘ Super Bowl XXXIV ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Bob McElwee Description of subject: Bob McElwee is a former National Football League official best known for serving as the referee in multiple Super Bowls and for his long, distinguished career in professional football officiating.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.