Bill Leavy
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Bill Leavy was an American NFL official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl XL and for several controversial calls in that game.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bill Leavy canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3401652 — 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: Bill Leavy Context triple: [Super Bowl XL, referee, Bill Leavy]
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A.
Terry Malloy
Terry Malloy is the conflicted ex-boxer and longshoreman protagonist of the film "On the Waterfront," known for his moral struggle against corruption and his iconic "I coulda been a contender" speech.
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B.
Tito Burns
Tito Burns was a British accordionist-turned-music manager and agent who became a prominent figure in the UK entertainment industry from the 1950s onward.
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C.
Russell Bufalino
Russell Bufalino was a powerful mid-20th-century American mob boss from Pennsylvania, known for his influence in organized crime and alleged connections to the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.
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D.
Frank Sheeran
Frank Sheeran was an American labor union official and alleged mob hitman best known for his claimed involvement in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, as depicted in the film "The Irishman."
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E.
Lepke Buchalter
Lepke Buchalter was a notorious American mobster who led the labor racketeering operations of Murder, Inc. and became one of the few major organized crime bosses to be executed by the U.S. government.
- 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: Bill Leavy Target entity description: Bill Leavy was an American NFL official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl XL and for several controversial calls in that game.
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A.
Terry Malloy
Terry Malloy is the conflicted ex-boxer and longshoreman protagonist of the film "On the Waterfront," known for his moral struggle against corruption and his iconic "I coulda been a contender" speech.
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B.
Tito Burns
Tito Burns was a British accordionist-turned-music manager and agent who became a prominent figure in the UK entertainment industry from the 1950s onward.
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C.
Russell Bufalino
Russell Bufalino was a powerful mid-20th-century American mob boss from Pennsylvania, known for his influence in organized crime and alleged connections to the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.
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D.
Frank Sheeran
Frank Sheeran was an American labor union official and alleged mob hitman best known for his claimed involvement in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, as depicted in the film "The Irishman."
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E.
Lepke Buchalter
Lepke Buchalter was a notorious American mobster who led the labor racketeering operations of Murder, Inc. and became one of the few major organized crime bosses to be executed by the U.S. government.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football official
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human ⓘ referee in American football ⓘ sports official ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | National Football League ⓘ |
| familyName | Leavy ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American football officiating
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sports officiating ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfActivity | professional sports officiating ⓘ |
| givenName | Bill ⓘ |
| hasPartInEvent | Super Bowl XL ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being an NFL referee
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controversial officiating decisions ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| leagueOfficiated | National Football League ⓘ |
| name | Bill Leavy self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controversial calls in Super Bowl XL
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officiating Super Bowl XL ⓘ |
| notableWork | Super Bowl XL ⓘ |
| occupation |
NFL official
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referee ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | referee ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | referee in Super Bowl XL ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
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: Bill Leavy Description of subject: Bill Leavy was an American NFL official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl XL and for several controversial calls in that game.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.