Doug Plank
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Doug Plank is a former NFL safety for the Chicago Bears who later became a successful arena football coach.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Doug Plank canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7591367 — 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: Doug Plank Context triple: [Philadelphia Soul, formerHeadCoach, Doug Plank]
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A.
Jon Plowman
Jon Plowman is a British television producer best known for his influential work on BBC comedies, including series such as Absolutely Fabulous and The Office.
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B.
Sean Plaice
Sean Plaice is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the on-demand delivery service Postmates.
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C.
Matt Wolpert
Matt Wolpert is a television writer and producer best known for co-creating the alternate-history space drama series "For All Mankind."
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D.
Dan Jinks
Dan Jinks is an American film and television producer best known for acclaimed movies such as "American Beauty" and "Big Fish."
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E.
Gregg Palmer
Gregg Palmer was an American character actor known for his rugged roles in Westerns and mid-20th-century Hollywood films.
- 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: Doug Plank Target entity description: Doug Plank is a former NFL safety for the Chicago Bears who later became a successful arena football coach.
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A.
Jon Plowman
Jon Plowman is a British television producer best known for his influential work on BBC comedies, including series such as Absolutely Fabulous and The Office.
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B.
Sean Plaice
Sean Plaice is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the on-demand delivery service Postmates.
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C.
Matt Wolpert
Matt Wolpert is a television writer and producer best known for co-creating the alternate-history space drama series "For All Mankind."
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D.
Dan Jinks
Dan Jinks is an American film and television producer best known for acclaimed movies such as "American Beauty" and "Big Fish."
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E.
Gregg Palmer
Gregg Palmer was an American character actor known for his rugged roles in Westerns and mid-20th-century Hollywood films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
ⓘ
American football player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Arena Football League Coach of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coachedInLeague | Arena Football League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coachedTeam |
Arizona Rattlers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Georgia Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Chicago Bears NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Ohio State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Plank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfOccupation | professional sports ⓘ |
| givenName | Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspired | nickname 46 defense for the Chicago Bears ⓘ |
| leaguePlayedIn | National Football League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Chicago Bears
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ohio State Buckeyes football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Doug Plank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
hard-hitting style as a safety
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successful arena football coaching career ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
ⓘ
American football player ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Chicago Bears
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ohio State Buckeyes football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | safety ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| sportNumber | 46 ⓘ |
| teamRole | defensive back ⓘ |
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: Doug Plank Description of subject: Doug Plank is a former NFL safety for the Chicago Bears who later became a successful arena football coach.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.