Willie Shaw
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Willie Shaw is an American football coach best known for his long career as a defensive coordinator in college football and the NFL, and as the father of former Stanford head coach David Shaw.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Willie Shaw canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7616212 — 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: Willie Shaw Context triple: [David Shaw, relative, Willie Shaw]
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A.
Sam Sharkey
Sam Sharkey is a character associated with the American folklore surrounding the legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan.
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B.
Bobby Nash
Bobby Nash is a central character on the television drama "9-1-1," serving as the compassionate yet haunted captain of the Los Angeles Fire Department's Station 118.
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C.
John O’May
John O’May is an actor known for his role in the Australian musical comedy film "Starstruck" (1982).
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D.
Sonny Siebert
Sonny Siebert is a former Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his successful career in the 1960s and 1970s, including two All-Star selections and a no-hitter with the Cleveland Indians.
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E.
Sonny Payne
Sonny Payne was an American jazz drummer best known for his dynamic, high-energy work with the Count Basie Orchestra during the 1950s and 1960s.
- 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: Willie Shaw Target entity description: Willie Shaw is an American football coach best known for his long career as a defensive coordinator in college football and the NFL, and as the father of former Stanford head coach David Shaw.
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A.
Sam Sharkey
Sam Sharkey is a character associated with the American folklore surrounding the legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan.
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B.
Bobby Nash
Bobby Nash is a central character on the television drama "9-1-1," serving as the compassionate yet haunted captain of the Los Angeles Fire Department's Station 118.
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C.
John O’May
John O’May is an actor known for his role in the Australian musical comedy film "Starstruck" (1982).
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D.
Sonny Siebert
Sonny Siebert is a former Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his successful career in the 1960s and 1970s, including two All-Star selections and a no-hitter with the Cleveland Indians.
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E.
Sonny Payne
Sonny Payne was an American jazz drummer best known for his dynamic, high-energy work with the Count Basie Orchestra during the 1950s and 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
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human ⓘ |
| child | David Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
San Diego State University
NERFINISHED
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Stanford University ⓘ |
| employer |
Arizona State Sun Devils football
NERFINISHED
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Army Black Knights football NERFINISHED ⓘ Detroit Lions NERFINISHED ⓘ Kansas City Chiefs NERFINISHED ⓘ Long Beach State 49ers football NERFINISHED ⓘ Los Angeles Rams NERFINISHED ⓘ Minnesota Vikings NERFINISHED ⓘ New Orleans Saints NERFINISHED ⓘ Oklahoma State Cowboys football NERFINISHED ⓘ San Diego State Aztecs football NERFINISHED ⓘ San Jose State Spartans football NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanford Cardinal football NERFINISHED ⓘ Temple Owls football NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Michigan Broncos football NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Willie Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | American football ⓘ |
| knownFor | long career as a defensive coordinator ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableRelative | David Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
defensive coordinator in college football
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defensive coordinator in the National Football League ⓘ |
| occupation | American football coach ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | defensive back ⓘ |
| relative | David Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Willie Shaw Description of subject: Willie Shaw is an American football coach best known for his long career as a defensive coordinator in college football and the NFL, and as the father of former Stanford head coach David Shaw.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.