Lawrence Timothy Shaw
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Lawrence Timothy "Buck" Shaw was an American football coach and former player best known for coaching Santa Clara University and leading the Philadelphia Eagles to the 1960 NFL Championship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lawrence Timothy Shaw canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7913065 — 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: Lawrence Timothy Shaw Context triple: [Buck Shaw Stadium, eponymFullName, Lawrence Timothy Shaw]
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A.
James Shaw Jr.
James Shaw Jr. is an American man widely recognized as the "Waffle House hero" for disarming a gunman during a 2018 mass shooting in Tennessee, preventing further loss of life.
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B.
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw is an American professional baseball player and power-hitting outfielder/first baseman who played college baseball at Boston College before reaching Major League Baseball.
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C.
Tom Shaw
Tom Shaw is a central character in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "An Old-Fashioned Girl," portrayed as a kind but initially worldly young man whose growth and changing values mirror the story’s moral themes.
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D.
Paul Kershaw
Paul Kershaw is a Canadian policy scholar and founder of the Generation Squeeze campaign, known for his research and advocacy on generational inequality and housing affordability.
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E.
Ian Shaw
Ian Shaw is a British actor and writer, known for his stage and screen work and for being the son of acclaimed actor Robert Shaw.
- 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: Lawrence Timothy Shaw Target entity description: Lawrence Timothy "Buck" Shaw was an American football coach and former player best known for coaching Santa Clara University and leading the Philadelphia Eagles to the 1960 NFL Championship.
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A.
James Shaw Jr.
James Shaw Jr. is an American man widely recognized as the "Waffle House hero" for disarming a gunman during a 2018 mass shooting in Tennessee, preventing further loss of life.
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B.
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw is an American professional baseball player and power-hitting outfielder/first baseman who played college baseball at Boston College before reaching Major League Baseball.
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C.
Tom Shaw
Tom Shaw is a central character in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "An Old-Fashioned Girl," portrayed as a kind but initially worldly young man whose growth and changing values mirror the story’s moral themes.
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D.
Paul Kershaw
Paul Kershaw is a Canadian policy scholar and founder of the Generation Squeeze campaign, known for his research and advocacy on generational inequality and housing affordability.
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E.
Ian Shaw
Ian Shaw is a British actor and writer, known for his stage and screen work and for being the son of acclaimed actor Robert Shaw.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
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American football player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | NFL Championship (1960) as head coach ⓘ |
| coachOf | San Francisco 49ers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1899-03-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1977-03-19 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Notre Dame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Philadelphia Eagles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Santa Clara University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
college football coaching
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professional football coaching ⓘ |
| givenName | Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leagueCoachedIn |
All-America Football Conference
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
National Football League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Notre Dame Fighting Irish football NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Timothy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Buck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | first head coach to win an NFL Championship for the Philadelphia Eagles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
coaching Santa Clara University football team
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leading the Philadelphia Eagles to the 1960 NFL Championship ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
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American football player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Mitchellville, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Menlo Park, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles
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head football coach at Santa Clara University ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
defensive back
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halfback ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| teamCoached |
Philadelphia Eagles
NERFINISHED
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San Francisco 49ers NERFINISHED ⓘ Santa Clara Broncos football 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: Lawrence Timothy Shaw Description of subject: Lawrence Timothy "Buck" Shaw was an American football coach and former player best known for coaching Santa Clara University and leading the Philadelphia Eagles to the 1960 NFL Championship.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.