Gus Frerotte
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Gus Frerotte is a former American football quarterback best known for his long NFL career in the 1990s and 2000s, during which he played for multiple teams including the Washington Redskins and Minnesota Vikings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gus Frerotte canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7472957 — 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: Gus Frerotte Context triple: [Tulsa Golden Hurricane football, notableAlumnus, Gus Frerotte]
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A.
Walt Willey
Walt Willey is an American actor best known for his long-running role as attorney Jackson Montgomery on the soap opera "All My Children."
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B.
Milt Woodard
Milt Woodard was a sports executive best known for serving as commissioner of the American Football League during its final years before the AFL–NFL merger.
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C.
Fritz Robinson
Fritz Robinson is the adventurous and resourceful eldest son of the shipwrecked family in the classic Disney adaptation of "Swiss Family Robinson."
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D.
David Sills
David Sills was an American jurist and former mayor of Irvine, California, who later served as the presiding justice of the California Court of Appeal.
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E.
Ozzie Silna
Ozzie Silna was an American businessman best known for striking an extraordinarily lucrative television revenue deal during the ABA–NBA merger as a former co-owner of the Spirits of St. Louis basketball team.
- 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: Gus Frerotte Target entity description: Gus Frerotte is a former American football quarterback best known for his long NFL career in the 1990s and 2000s, during which he played for multiple teams including the Washington Redskins and Minnesota Vikings.
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A.
Walt Willey
Walt Willey is an American actor best known for his long-running role as attorney Jackson Montgomery on the soap opera "All My Children."
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B.
Milt Woodard
Milt Woodard was a sports executive best known for serving as commissioner of the American Football League during its final years before the AFL–NFL merger.
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C.
Fritz Robinson
Fritz Robinson is the adventurous and resourceful eldest son of the shipwrecked family in the classic Disney adaptation of "Swiss Family Robinson."
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D.
David Sills
David Sills was an American jurist and former mayor of Irvine, California, who later served as the presiding justice of the California Court of Appeal.
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E.
Ozzie Silna
Ozzie Silna was an American businessman best known for striking an extraordinarily lucrative television revenue deal during the ABA–NBA merger as a former co-owner of the Spirits of St. Louis basketball team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| activeYearsInNFL | 1994–2008 ⓘ |
| birthName | Gustave Joseph Frerotte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| college | University of Tulsa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | Tulsa Golden Hurricane football program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1971-07-31 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Washington Redskins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| education | Ford City High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Frerotte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Gustave Joseph Frerotte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Gustave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
backup quarterback
ⓘ
starting quarterback ⓘ |
| height | approximately 6 ft 3 in ⓘ |
| highSchool | Ford City High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRetired | true ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber |
12
ⓘ
3 ⓘ |
| leaguePlayedIn | National Football League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| NFLDebutTeam | Washington Redskins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| NFLDraftPick | 197 ⓘ |
| NFLDraftRound | 7 ⓘ |
| NFLDraftYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| notableInjury | Neck sprain from head-butting a wall after a touchdown celebration in 1997 ⓘ |
| notableTeam |
Minnesota Vikings
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington Redskins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
football coach
ⓘ
professional American football player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kittanning, Pennsylvania, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Cincinnati Bengals
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Denver Broncos NERFINISHED ⓘ Detroit Lions NERFINISHED ⓘ Miami Dolphins NERFINISHED ⓘ Minnesota Vikings NERFINISHED ⓘ Minnesota Vikings (second stint) NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Louis Rams NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington Redskins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | quarterback ⓘ |
| proBowlSelection | 1996 ⓘ |
| retiredFromPlaying | yes ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| stateOfOrigin | Pennsylvania 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: Gus Frerotte Description of subject: Gus Frerotte is a former American football quarterback best known for his long NFL career in the 1990s and 2000s, during which he played for multiple teams including the Washington Redskins and Minnesota Vikings.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.