Ray McElrathbey
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Ray McElrathbey is a former Clemson University football player whose story of gaining custody of his younger brother while balancing college and athletics inspired the Disney film "Safety."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ray McElrathbey canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6150692 — 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: Ray McElrathbey Context triple: [Safety, mainSubject, Ray McElrathbey]
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A.
Jack McKinney
Jack McKinney was an American basketball coach best known for his innovative offensive schemes and for laying the groundwork for the "Showtime" era of the Los Angeles Lakers.
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B.
William McSweeny
William McSweeny is an author best known for co-writing the autobiography "Go Up for Glory" with basketball legend Bill Russell.
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C.
Roy McFarland
Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
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D.
Mac McNeilly
Mac McNeilly is an American drummer best known for his powerful, driving work with the influential noise rock band The Jesus Lizard.
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E.
Hugh McDevitt
Hugh McDevitt is an immunologist renowned for his pioneering work on the genetic control of the immune response and the role of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules in disease susceptibility.
- 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: Ray McElrathbey Target entity description: Ray McElrathbey is a former Clemson University football player whose story of gaining custody of his younger brother while balancing college and athletics inspired the Disney film "Safety."
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A.
Jack McKinney
Jack McKinney was an American basketball coach best known for his innovative offensive schemes and for laying the groundwork for the "Showtime" era of the Los Angeles Lakers.
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B.
William McSweeny
William McSweeny is an author best known for co-writing the autobiography "Go Up for Glory" with basketball legend Bill Russell.
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C.
Roy McFarland
Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
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D.
Mac McNeilly
Mac McNeilly is an American drummer best known for his powerful, driving work with the influential noise rock band The Jesus Lizard.
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E.
Hugh McDevitt
Hugh McDevitt is an immunologist renowned for his pioneering work on the genetic control of the immune response and the role of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules in disease susceptibility.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
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human ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Clemson University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
|
| genreOfNotability | sports drama ⓘ |
| guardianOf | Fahmarr McElrathbey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBiographicalFocus |
college years at Clemson University
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legal custody process for his younger brother ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasGivenTalkAt |
Clemson University
NERFINISHED
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schools and community organizations in the United States ⓘ |
| hasThemeInLifeStory |
education
ⓘ
family responsibility ⓘ perseverance ⓘ student-athlete challenges ⓘ |
| knownFor | balancing college football with legal custody of his younger brother ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Clemson Tigers football NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Ray McElrathbey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | received NCAA waiver allowing outside assistance after gaining custody of his brother ⓘ |
| notableFor | gaining custody of his younger brother while a student-athlete at Clemson ⓘ |
| notableWork | inspiration for the film "Safety" ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football player
ⓘ
motivational speaker ⓘ |
| playedForCollege | Clemson Tigers football NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jay Reeves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
defensive back
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safety ⓘ |
| residence | Atlanta, Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Fahmarr McElrathbey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Disney film "Safety" 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: Ray McElrathbey Description of subject: Ray McElrathbey is a former Clemson University football player whose story of gaining custody of his younger brother while balancing college and athletics inspired the Disney film "Safety."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.