Tim Howard
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Tim Howard is an American former professional soccer goalkeeper best known for his long career with the U.S. Men’s National Team and clubs including Everton in the English Premier League.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tim Howard canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5309939 — 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: Tim Howard Context triple: [Howard, hasNotableBearer, Tim Howard]
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A.
Brad Guzan
Brad Guzan is an American professional soccer goalkeeper known for his long MLS career and for representing the United States national team, including at multiple major international tournaments.
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B.
Marcus Gerber
Marcus Gerber is a fictional character from the film "Burlesque."
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C.
Mitch Henessey
Mitch Henessey is a wisecracking private investigator and reluctant hero who partners with amnesiac assassin Charly Baltimore in the action film "The Long Kiss Goodnight."
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D.
Blake Swihart
Blake Swihart is an American former professional baseball catcher and utility player who spent several seasons in Major League Baseball, primarily with the Boston Red Sox.
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E.
Matt Turner
Matt Turner is a video game writer best known for his work on the historical action-adventure title Assassin's Creed III.
- 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: Tim Howard Target entity description: Tim Howard is an American former professional soccer goalkeeper best known for his long career with the U.S. Men’s National Team and clubs including Everton in the English Premier League.
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A.
Brad Guzan
Brad Guzan is an American professional soccer goalkeeper known for his long MLS career and for representing the United States national team, including at multiple major international tournaments.
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B.
Marcus Gerber
Marcus Gerber is a fictional character from the film "Burlesque."
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C.
Mitch Henessey
Mitch Henessey is a wisecracking private investigator and reluctant hero who partners with amnesiac assassin Charly Baltimore in the action film "The Long Kiss Goodnight."
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D.
Blake Swihart
Blake Swihart is an American former professional baseball catcher and utility player who spent several seasons in Major League Baseball, primarily with the Boston Red Sox.
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E.
Matt Turner
Matt Turner is a video game writer best known for his work on the historical action-adventure title Assassin's Creed III.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football player
ⓘ
goalkeeper ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1979-03-06 ⓘ |
| diagnosedWith | Tourette syndrome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Timothy Matthew Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Timothy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole | goalkeeper ⓘ |
| hasWon |
FA Cup (with Manchester United)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
League Cup (with Manchester United) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| leagueParticipatedIn |
Major League Soccer
ⓘ
Premier League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Colorado Rapids
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Everton F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Manchester United F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ MetroStars NERFINISHED ⓘ United States men’s national soccer team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationalTeam | United States men’s national soccer team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationalTeamDebut | 2002 ⓘ |
| notableFor | record number of saves in a single FIFA World Cup match for the United States in 2014 ⓘ |
| notableWork | performance for the United States vs Belgium at the 2014 FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
| numberOfInternationalCaps | 100+ ⓘ |
| occupation |
football player
ⓘ
sports commentator ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
2006 FIFA World Cup
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
2010 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ 2014 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ CONCACAF Gold Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | North Brunswick, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Colorado Rapids
NERFINISHED
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Everton F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Manchester United F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ MetroStars NERFINISHED ⓘ New York/New Jersey MetroStars NERFINISHED ⓘ United States men’s national soccer team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedIn |
English Premier League
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Major League Soccer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | goalkeeper ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| retiredFromProfessionalSport | association football ⓘ |
| shirtNumber |
1
ⓘ
24 ⓘ |
| sport | association 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: Tim Howard Description of subject: Tim Howard is an American former professional soccer goalkeeper best known for his long career with the U.S. Men’s National Team and clubs including Everton in the English Premier League.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.