Colin Kaepernick
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Colin Kaepernick is an American former NFL quarterback and civil rights activist known for kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice and police brutality.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Colin Kaepernick canonical | 17 |
| Kaepernick | 3 |
| Colin Kaepernick is the face and primary spokesperson of Know Your Rights Camp | 1 |
| Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game | 1 |
| Colin Rand Kaepernick | 1 |
| Devon Kaepernick | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T302847 — 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)
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Target entity: Colin Kaepernick Context triple: [Ambassador of Conscience Award, hasRecipient, Colin Kaepernick]
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A.
Malcolm Butler
Malcolm Butler is an American football cornerback best known for his game-winning goal-line interception for the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX.
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B.
David Montgomery
David Montgomery is the son of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, and a member of the British aristocracy.
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C.
Danny Granger
Danny Granger is a former American professional basketball player best known as an All-Star forward for the Indiana Pacers in the NBA.
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D.
Darnell Donerson
Darnell Donerson was the mother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically known for her murder in 2008.
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E.
Mancel Warrick
Mancel Warrick was the father of American soul and R&B singer Dee Dee Warwick and a member of the musical Warwick family.
- 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: Colin Kaepernick Target entity description: Colin Kaepernick is an American former NFL quarterback and civil rights activist known for kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice and police brutality.
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A.
Malcolm Butler
Malcolm Butler is an American football cornerback best known for his game-winning goal-line interception for the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX.
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B.
David Montgomery
David Montgomery is the son of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, and a member of the British aristocracy.
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C.
Danny Granger
Danny Granger is a former American professional basketball player best known as an All-Star forward for the Indiana Pacers in the NBA.
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D.
Darnell Donerson
Darnell Donerson was the mother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically known for her murder in 2008.
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E.
Mancel Warrick
Mancel Warrick was the father of American soul and R&B singer Dee Dee Warwick and a member of the musical Warwick family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
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civil rights activist ⓘ human ⓘ quarterback ⓘ social justice activist ⓘ |
| activismFocus |
criminal justice reform
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police accountability ⓘ racial equality ⓘ |
| adoptedBy |
Rick Kaepernick
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Teresa Kaepernick ⓘ |
| authored |
Colin Kaepernick
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game
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| bookSubject | his high school years and activism ⓘ |
| coFounded | Know Your Rights Camp ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | University of Nevada, Reno ⓘ |
| collegeTeam | Nevada Wolf Pack football ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1987-11-03 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | San Francisco 49ers ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
African American
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white American ⓘ |
| familyName |
Colin Kaepernick
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Kaepernick
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| featuredIn | Nike "Just Do It" 30th anniversary campaign ⓘ |
| foundedOrganizationType | youth empowerment initiative ⓘ |
| fullName |
Colin Kaepernick
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Colin Rand Kaepernick
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| givenName | Colin ⓘ |
| handedness | right-handed ⓘ |
| height | 6 ft 4 in ⓘ |
| highSchool | John H. Pitman High School ⓘ |
| highSchoolLocation |
Turlock
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surface form:
Turlock, California, United States
|
| jerseyNumber | 7 ⓘ |
| knownFor | kneeling during the U.S. national anthem to protest racial injustice and police brutality ⓘ |
| leaguePlayedIn | National Football League ⓘ |
| ledTeamTo |
Super Bowl XLVII
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surface form:
Super Bowl XLVII appearance
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| NFLDebutSeason | 2011 ⓘ |
| NFLDebutTeam | San Francisco 49ers ⓘ |
| NFLDraftPickOverall | 36 ⓘ |
| NFLDraftRound | 2 ⓘ |
| NFLDraftYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
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author ⓘ professional athlete ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Milwaukee
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surface form:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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| playedFor | San Francisco 49ers ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | quarterback ⓘ |
| protestBegan | 2016 NFL preseason ⓘ |
| protestForm | kneeling during the national anthem ⓘ |
| protestIssue |
police brutality
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racial injustice ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| sponsoredBy |
Nike, Inc.
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surface form:
Nike
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| sport | American football ⓘ |
| SuperBowlAppearance | Super Bowl XLVII ⓘ |
| teamDuringProtest | San Francisco 49ers ⓘ |
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: Colin Kaepernick Description of subject: Colin Kaepernick is an American former NFL quarterback and civil rights activist known for kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice and police brutality.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Colin Rand Kaepernick
this entity surface form:
Kaepernick
this entity surface form:
Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game
this entity surface form:
Colin Kaepernick is the face and primary spokesperson of Know Your Rights Camp
this entity surface form:
Kaepernick
this entity surface form:
Kaepernick
this entity surface form:
Devon Kaepernick