Clarence Swanson
E356538
Clarence Swanson was an American football player and coach from Nebraska who became notable for his contributions to collegiate athletics in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clarence Swanson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3443278 — 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: Clarence Swanson Context triple: [Wahoo, Nebraska, United States, hasNotablePerson, Clarence Swanson]
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A.
David Sills
David Sills was an American jurist and former mayor of Irvine, California, who later served as the presiding justice of the California Court of Appeal.
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B.
Ozzie Silna
Ozzie Silna was an American businessman best known for striking an extraordinarily lucrative television revenue deal during the ABA–NBA merger as a former co-owner of the Spirits of St. Louis basketball team.
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C.
Herbert Blomstedt
Herbert Blomstedt is a renowned Swedish conductor celebrated for his interpretations of the Germanic symphonic repertoire and long associations with major orchestras such as the San Francisco Symphony and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
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D.
Oscar Neebe
Oscar Neebe was an American labor activist and anarchist who was controversially convicted in connection with the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
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E.
Hans Jensen
Hans Jensen was a German nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate recognized for his contributions to the shell model of the atomic nucleus.
- 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: Clarence Swanson Target entity description: Clarence Swanson was an American football player and coach from Nebraska who became notable for his contributions to collegiate athletics in the early 20th century.
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A.
David Sills
David Sills was an American jurist and former mayor of Irvine, California, who later served as the presiding justice of the California Court of Appeal.
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B.
Ozzie Silna
Ozzie Silna was an American businessman best known for striking an extraordinarily lucrative television revenue deal during the ABA–NBA merger as a former co-owner of the Spirits of St. Louis basketball team.
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C.
Herbert Blomstedt
Herbert Blomstedt is a renowned Swedish conductor celebrated for his interpretations of the Germanic symphonic repertoire and long associations with major orchestras such as the San Francisco Symphony and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
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D.
Oscar Neebe
Oscar Neebe was an American labor activist and anarchist who was controversially convicted in connection with the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
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E.
Hans Jensen
Hans Jensen was a German nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate recognized for his contributions to the shell model of the atomic nucleus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
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American football player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activityStartCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | collegiate athletics ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| domain | sports ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | college athletics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | college football ⓘ |
| notableFor | contributions to collegiate athletics in the early 20th century ⓘ |
| notableRole |
college football coach
ⓘ
college football player ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
ⓘ
American football player ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Nebraska ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| workLocation | Nebraska ⓘ |
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: Clarence Swanson Description of subject: Clarence Swanson was an American football player and coach from Nebraska who became notable for his contributions to collegiate athletics in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.