Bob McNair
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Bob McNair was an American businessman best known as the founder and longtime owner of the NFL’s Houston Texans.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bob McNair canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7546866 — 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: Bob McNair Context triple: [Janice McNair, spouse, Bob McNair]
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A.
Stephen M. Ross
Stephen M. Ross is an American real estate billionaire and philanthropist best known as the principal owner of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and the developer behind New York’s Hudson Yards.
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B.
Micky Arison
Micky Arison is an Israeli-American billionaire businessman best known as the longtime chairman of Carnival Corporation and owner of the NBA’s Miami Heat.
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C.
John Whitesell
John Whitesell is an American television and film director and producer known for his work on various TV series and feature comedies.
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D.
Jeffrey Lurie
Jeffrey Lurie is an American businessman and film producer best known as the longtime owner of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles, under whom the team won its first Super Bowl title.
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E.
Gordon Gund
Gordon Gund is an American businessman and philanthropist best known as a former principal owner of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers.
- 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: Bob McNair Target entity description: Bob McNair was an American businessman best known as the founder and longtime owner of the NFL’s Houston Texans.
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A.
Stephen M. Ross
Stephen M. Ross is an American real estate billionaire and philanthropist best known as the principal owner of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and the developer behind New York’s Hudson Yards.
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B.
Micky Arison
Micky Arison is an Israeli-American billionaire businessman best known as the longtime chairman of Carnival Corporation and owner of the NBA’s Miami Heat.
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C.
John Whitesell
John Whitesell is an American television and film director and producer known for his work on various TV series and feature comedies.
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D.
Jeffrey Lurie
Jeffrey Lurie is an American businessman and film producer best known as the longtime owner of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles, under whom the team won its first Super Bowl title.
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E.
Gordon Gund
Gordon Gund is an American businessman and philanthropist best known as a former principal owner of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
sports team owner ⓘ |
| basedIn | Houston, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessRegion | Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | skin cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1937-01-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2018-11-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of South Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Houston Texans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
energy industry
ⓘ
professional sports ⓘ |
| founded |
Cogen Technologies
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Houston Texans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Robert C. McNair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfBusiness |
energy
ⓘ
sports franchise ownership ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding the Houston Texans
ⓘ
owning the Houston Texans ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| memberOf | National Football League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Bob McNair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | secured NFL expansion franchise for Houston in 1999 ⓘ |
| notableAward | Horatio Alger Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | bringing an NFL expansion franchise to Houston ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
philanthropist ⓘ sports executive ⓘ |
| ownerOf | Houston Texans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philanthropy |
McNair Foundation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
donations to education ⓘ donations to medical research ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tampa, Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of the Houston Texans
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
chairman of the Houston Texans ⓘ founder of the Houston Texans ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sportsDiscipline | American football ⓘ |
| sportsRole | NFL team owner ⓘ |
| spouse | Janice Suber McNair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamFounded | Houston Texans 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: Bob McNair Description of subject: Bob McNair was an American businessman best known as the founder and longtime owner of the NFL’s Houston Texans.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.