Ty Detmer
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Ty Detmer is a former American football quarterback best known for his record-setting college career at BYU and winning the Heisman Trophy in 1990.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ty Detmer canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6615946 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ty Detmer Context triple: [Brigham Young Cougars football team, HeismanTrophyWinner, Ty Detmer]
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A.
Greg Warner
Greg Warner is a central character in the American sitcom "Yes, Dear," portrayed as a somewhat neurotic, career-focused father navigating family life and suburban challenges.
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B.
Tommy Albright
Tommy Albright is the American tourist protagonist of the musical "Brigadoon," whose unexpected visit to a mysterious Scottish village forces him to choose between his old life and a newfound love.
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C.
Darin McNabb
Darin McNabb is known primarily as the husband of economist and biographer Sylvia Nasar, acclaimed author of "A Beautiful Mind."
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D.
Kellen Winslow
Kellen Winslow is a legendary former NFL tight end renowned for revolutionizing the position with his exceptional receiving skills and athleticism for the San Diego Chargers in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Zach Thomas
Zach Thomas is a former NFL linebacker best known for his long, standout career with the Miami Dolphins, where he became one of the league’s most productive and respected defensive players.
- 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: Ty Detmer Target entity description: Ty Detmer is a former American football quarterback best known for his record-setting college career at BYU and winning the Heisman Trophy in 1990.
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A.
Greg Warner
Greg Warner is a central character in the American sitcom "Yes, Dear," portrayed as a somewhat neurotic, career-focused father navigating family life and suburban challenges.
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B.
Tommy Albright
Tommy Albright is the American tourist protagonist of the musical "Brigadoon," whose unexpected visit to a mysterious Scottish village forces him to choose between his old life and a newfound love.
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C.
Darin McNabb
Darin McNabb is known primarily as the husband of economist and biographer Sylvia Nasar, acclaimed author of "A Beautiful Mind."
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D.
Kellen Winslow
Kellen Winslow is a legendary former NFL tight end renowned for revolutionizing the position with his exceptional receiving skills and athleticism for the San Diego Chargers in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Zach Thomas
Zach Thomas is a former NFL linebacker best known for his long, standout career with the Miami Dolphins, where he became one of the league’s most productive and respected defensive players.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Davey O'Brien Award
NERFINISHED
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Heisman Trophy NERFINISHED ⓘ Maxwell Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Sammy Baugh Trophy NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Camp Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coachingPosition | offensive coordinator at BYU Cougars football ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | Brigham Young University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1967-10-30 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Green Bay Packers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| draftLeague |
National Football League
ⓘ
surface form:
NFL
|
| draftPickNumber | 230 ⓘ |
| draftRound | 9 ⓘ |
| draftYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| familyName | Detmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Ty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFame | College Football Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height | 6 ft 0 in ⓘ |
| heightInMeters | 1.83 ⓘ |
| HeismanTrophyYear | 1990 ⓘ |
| highSchoolAttended | Southwest High School (San Antonio, Texas) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inductedIntoHallOfFameYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 14 ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Atlanta Falcons
NERFINISHED
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BYU Cougars football NERFINISHED ⓘ Carolina Panthers NERFINISHED ⓘ Cleveland Browns NERFINISHED ⓘ Detroit Lions NERFINISHED ⓘ Green Bay Packers NERFINISHED ⓘ Philadelphia Eagles NERFINISHED ⓘ San Francisco 49ers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | set numerous NCAA passing records at BYU ⓘ |
| notableWork | record-setting college football career at BYU ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
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college football coach ⓘ high school football coach ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Marcos, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInLeague | National Football League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | quarterback ⓘ |
| relative | Koy Detmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| retiredFromPlayingCareer | yes ⓘ |
| sibling | Koy Detmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| weightInKilograms | 86 ⓘ |
| weightInPounds | 189 ⓘ |
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: Ty Detmer Description of subject: Ty Detmer is a former American football quarterback best known for his record-setting college career at BYU and winning the Heisman Trophy in 1990.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.