Bernie Ulman
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Bernie Ulman was a prominent American football official best known for serving as a referee in the National Football League, including officiating major games such as Super Bowl IX.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bernie Ulman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3310223 — 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: Bernie Ulman Context triple: [Super Bowl IX, referee, Bernie Ulman]
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A.
Stuart Ullman
Stuart Ullman is a minor character in Stephen King’s horror novel "The Shining," serving as the hotel manager who hires Jack Torrance as the winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel.
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B.
Ralph Berkowitz
Ralph Berkowitz was an American pianist, accompanist, and arts administrator known for his influential work in classical music performance and education.
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C.
Jerome Newman
Jerome Newman was an American investor best known as the business partner of Benjamin Graham and co-founder of the influential Graham-Newman investment firm.
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D.
Douglas Shulman
Douglas Shulman is an American public official who served as the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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E.
Robert Hohman
Robert Hohman is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Glassdoor, a popular platform for anonymous employee reviews and salary information.
- 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: Bernie Ulman Target entity description: Bernie Ulman was a prominent American football official best known for serving as a referee in the National Football League, including officiating major games such as Super Bowl IX.
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A.
Stuart Ullman
Stuart Ullman is a minor character in Stephen King’s horror novel "The Shining," serving as the hotel manager who hires Jack Torrance as the winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel.
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B.
Ralph Berkowitz
Ralph Berkowitz was an American pianist, accompanist, and arts administrator known for his influential work in classical music performance and education.
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C.
Jerome Newman
Jerome Newman was an American investor best known as the business partner of Benjamin Graham and co-founder of the influential Graham-Newman investment firm.
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D.
Douglas Shulman
Douglas Shulman is an American public official who served as the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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E.
Robert Hohman
Robert Hohman is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Glassdoor, a popular platform for anonymous employee reviews and salary information.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football official
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | National Football League ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | sports officiating ⓘ |
| knownFor |
officiating major NFL games
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serving as an NFL referee ⓘ |
| leagueOfficiated | National Football League ⓘ |
| notability | prominent NFL official ⓘ |
| notableWork | officiating Super Bowl IX ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football official
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referee ⓘ |
| role | referee in Super Bowl IX ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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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: Bernie Ulman Description of subject: Bernie Ulman was a prominent American football official best known for serving as a referee in the National Football League, including officiating major games such as Super Bowl IX.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.