Patrick Willis
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Patrick Willis is a former NFL linebacker best known for his dominant career with the San Francisco 49ers, where he became a multiple-time Pro Bowler and All-Pro.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick Willis canonical | 2 |
| Patrick L. Willis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3911164 — 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: Patrick Willis Context triple: [Ole Miss Rebels football, hasNotableAlumnus, Patrick Willis]
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A.
Von Miller
Von Miller is an American football outside linebacker renowned as one of the NFL’s premier pass rushers, primarily with the Denver Broncos.
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B.
Jared Allen
Jared Allen is a former NFL defensive end best known for his prolific pass rushing with the Kansas City Chiefs and Minnesota Vikings and for his extensive charitable and community work.
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C.
Charles Woodson
Charles Woodson is a Hall of Fame American football defensive back and Heisman Trophy winner who starred at the University of Michigan before a long NFL career with the Oakland Raiders and Green Bay Packers.
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D.
Chandler Jones
Chandler Jones is an American professional football defensive end known for his productive NFL career with teams such as the New England Patriots and Arizona Cardinals.
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E.
DeMarcus Ware
DeMarcus Ware is a former NFL outside linebacker and defensive end best known for his dominant pass-rushing career with the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos, culminating in a Super Bowl 50 championship and multiple All-Pro selections.
- 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: Patrick Willis Target entity description: Patrick Willis is a former NFL linebacker best known for his dominant career with the San Francisco 49ers, where he became a multiple-time Pro Bowler and All-Pro.
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A.
Von Miller
Von Miller is an American football outside linebacker renowned as one of the NFL’s premier pass rushers, primarily with the Denver Broncos.
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B.
Jared Allen
Jared Allen is a former NFL defensive end best known for his prolific pass rushing with the Kansas City Chiefs and Minnesota Vikings and for his extensive charitable and community work.
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C.
Charles Woodson
Charles Woodson is a Hall of Fame American football defensive back and Heisman Trophy winner who starred at the University of Michigan before a long NFL career with the Oakland Raiders and Green Bay Packers.
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D.
Chandler Jones
Chandler Jones is an American professional football defensive end known for his productive NFL career with teams such as the New England Patriots and Arizona Cardinals.
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E.
DeMarcus Ware
DeMarcus Ware is a former NFL outside linebacker and defensive end best known for his dominant pass-rushing career with the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos, culminating in a Super Bowl 50 championship and multiple All-Pro selections.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Patrick Willis Description of subject: Patrick Willis is a former NFL linebacker best known for his dominant career with the San Francisco 49ers, where he became a multiple-time Pro Bowler and All-Pro.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
San Francisco 49ers–Seattle Seahawks rivalry
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notablePlayerAssociatedWithRivalry
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Patrick Willis
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this entity surface form:
Patrick L. Willis