Bobby Walden
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Bobby Walden was an American professional football punter best known for his successful NFL career, particularly with the Pittsburgh Steelers during their 1970s championship era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bobby Walden canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7241848 — 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)
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Target entity: Bobby Walden Context triple: [Cairo, Georgia, United States, hasNotablePerson, Bobby Walden]
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A.
Bobby Benson
Bobby Benson is the young boy who befriends the alien visitor Klaatu in the classic 1951 science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still."
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B.
Bobby Wilson
Bobby Wilson is a songwriter best known for co-writing the hit track "Mrs. Officer," popularized by rapper Lil Wayne.
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C.
Bobby Massey
Bobby Massey is an author best known for writing the comic book series "Bound 2."
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D.
Bobby Morrow
Bobby Morrow was an American sprinter and three-time Olympic gold medalist renowned for dominating the 100m and 200m events in the mid-1950s.
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E.
Bobby Bowman
Bobby Bowman is a television writer and producer best known for his work on the comedy series "My Name Is Earl."
- 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: Bobby Walden Target entity description: Bobby Walden was an American professional football punter best known for his successful NFL career, particularly with the Pittsburgh Steelers during their 1970s championship era.
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A.
Bobby Benson
Bobby Benson is the young boy who befriends the alien visitor Klaatu in the classic 1951 science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still."
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B.
Bobby Wilson
Bobby Wilson is a songwriter best known for co-writing the hit track "Mrs. Officer," popularized by rapper Lil Wayne.
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C.
Bobby Massey
Bobby Massey is an author best known for writing the comic book series "Bound 2."
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D.
Bobby Morrow
Bobby Morrow was an American sprinter and three-time Olympic gold medalist renowned for dominating the 100m and 200m events in the mid-1950s.
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E.
Bobby Bowman
Bobby Bowman is a television writer and producer best known for his work on the comedy series "My Name Is Earl."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
ⓘ
human ⓘ punter ⓘ |
| careerRole | special teams player ⓘ |
| CFLAllStar |
1962
ⓘ
1963 ⓘ |
| CFLTeam |
BC Lions
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edmonton Eskimos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | University of Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1938-03-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2018-08-27 ⓘ |
| draftStatus | undrafted in NFL ⓘ |
| familyName | Walden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Robert Earl Walden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| handedness | right-footed punter ⓘ |
| height | approximately 6 ft 1 in ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber |
12
ⓘ
39 ⓘ |
| league |
Canadian Football League
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
National Football League ⓘ |
| memberOf | Pittsburgh Steelers 1970s championship teams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| NFLDebutTeam | Minnesota Vikings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| NFLProBowler | 1969 ⓘ |
| NFLTeam | Pittsburgh Steelers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Bobby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | one of leading punters of his era ⓘ |
| notableFor | being punter for Pittsburgh Steelers during 1970s championship era ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Columbus, Georgia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Atlanta, Georgia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
BC Lions
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edmonton Eskimos NERFINISHED ⓘ Minnesota Vikings NERFINISHED ⓘ Pittsburgh Steelers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInChampionship |
Super Bowl IX
NERFINISHED
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Super Bowl X NERFINISHED ⓘ Super Bowl XIII NERFINISHED ⓘ Super Bowl XIV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
halfback
ⓘ
punter ⓘ |
| residence | Georgia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| weight | approximately 190 lb ⓘ |
| won |
Super Bowl IX
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Super Bowl X 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: Bobby Walden Description of subject: Bobby Walden was an American professional football punter best known for his successful NFL career, particularly with the Pittsburgh Steelers during their 1970s championship era.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.