Pat Sullivan
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Pat Sullivan was a star quarterback for Auburn University who won the 1971 Heisman Trophy and later became a college football coach.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pat Sullivan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4602844 — 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: Pat Sullivan Context triple: [Auburn Tigers football, HeismanTrophyWinner, Pat Sullivan]
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A.
Patrick Sullivan
Patrick Sullivan is a distinguished member of the Sullivan family recognized for his prominence and contributions associated with the family name.
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B.
Leslie Harter
Leslie Harter is a film producer known for her work in Hollywood and for being married to director Robert Zemeckis.
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C.
Barrie Chase
Barrie Chase is an American actress and dancer best known for her work in 1950s–60s Hollywood films and television, including frequent collaborations with Fred Astaire.
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D.
John McShain
John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
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E.
Cy Howard
Cy Howard was an American radio and television writer, producer, and director best known for creating the popular radio series "My Friend Irma."
- 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: Pat Sullivan Target entity description: Pat Sullivan was a star quarterback for Auburn University who won the 1971 Heisman Trophy and later became a college football coach.
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A.
Patrick Sullivan
Patrick Sullivan is a distinguished member of the Sullivan family recognized for his prominence and contributions associated with the family name.
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B.
Leslie Harter
Leslie Harter is a film producer known for her work in Hollywood and for being married to director Robert Zemeckis.
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C.
Barrie Chase
Barrie Chase is an American actress and dancer best known for her work in 1950s–60s Hollywood films and television, including frequent collaborations with Fred Astaire.
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D.
John McShain
John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
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E.
Cy Howard
Cy Howard was an American radio and television writer, producer, and director best known for creating the popular radio series "My Friend Irma."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
ⓘ
college football coach ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Heisman Trophy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
SEC Player of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| conference | Southeastern Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1950-01-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2019-12-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfHallOfFameInduction | 1991 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Atlanta Falcons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Auburn University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Patrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFame | College Football Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headCoachOf |
Samford University football team
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Texas Christian University football team NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Alabama at Birmingham offensive coordinator (earlier coaching role) ⓘ |
| inductedIntoHallOfFame | College Football Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 7 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a star quarterback at Auburn University
ⓘ
serving as a college football head coach ⓘ winning the 1971 Heisman Trophy ⓘ |
| league |
National Collegiate Athletic Association
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA
|
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Atlanta Falcons
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Auburn Tigers football NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington Redskins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | led Auburn Tigers to national prominence in early 1970s ⓘ |
| notableAward | Walter Camp Player of the Year Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableTeammate | Terry Beasley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | 1971 season at Auburn University ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
ⓘ
American football player ⓘ |
| participantIn | 1971 NCAA University Division football season ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Birmingham, Alabama, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Birmingham, Alabama, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInLeague | National Football League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pointInTime | 1971 Heisman Trophy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | head football coach ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | quarterback ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Birmingham, Alabama, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| spouse | Jean Hicks Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Pat Sullivan Description of subject: Pat Sullivan was a star quarterback for Auburn University who won the 1971 Heisman Trophy and later became a college football coach.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.