Dave Butz
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Dave Butz was a dominant American football defensive tackle best known for his long NFL career with the Washington Redskins, where he became a key part of their Super Bowl–winning defenses in the 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dave Butz canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9949269 — 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: Dave Butz Context triple: [Butz, hasNotableBearer, Dave Butz]
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A.
Bob Suter
Bob Suter was an American defenseman best known as a member of the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and later a prominent youth hockey coach and scout.
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B.
Martin Ballinger
Martin Ballinger was a British businessman best known as the founder and first chief executive of the Go-Ahead Group, one of the UK’s major public transport operators.
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C.
Mark Bittner
Mark Bittner is an American writer and former street musician best known for his close relationship with and documentation of a flock of wild parrots in San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill neighborhood.
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D.
Scott Stuber
Scott Stuber is an American film producer and entertainment executive known for overseeing original films at Netflix and producing major Hollywood movies.
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E.
Don Brautigam
Don Brautigam was an American illustrator best known for his striking, realistic cover art for horror and thriller novels, including works by Stephen King.
- 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: Dave Butz Target entity description: Dave Butz was a dominant American football defensive tackle best known for his long NFL career with the Washington Redskins, where he became a key part of their Super Bowl–winning defenses in the 1980s.
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A.
Bob Suter
Bob Suter was an American defenseman best known as a member of the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and later a prominent youth hockey coach and scout.
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B.
Martin Ballinger
Martin Ballinger was a British businessman best known as the founder and first chief executive of the Go-Ahead Group, one of the UK’s major public transport operators.
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C.
Mark Bittner
Mark Bittner is an American writer and former street musician best known for his close relationship with and documentation of a flock of wild parrots in San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill neighborhood.
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D.
Scott Stuber
Scott Stuber is an American film producer and entertainment executive known for overseeing original films at Netflix and producing major Hollywood movies.
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E.
Don Brautigam
Don Brautigam was an American illustrator best known for his striking, realistic cover art for horror and thriller novels, including works by Stephen King.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | All-Pro selection NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| careerSacks | ~64 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | undisclosed illness ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | Purdue University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1950-06-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2022-11-04 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | St. Louis Cardinals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| draftLeague |
National Football League
ⓘ
surface form:
NFL
|
| draftPickNumber | 5 ⓘ |
| draftRound | 1 ⓘ |
| draftYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Purdue University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Butz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gamesPlayed | 216 ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFame | College Football Hall of Fame inductee ⓘ |
| height | 6 ft 7 in ⓘ |
| highSchool | Maine South High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 65 ⓘ |
| joinedTeamInYear | Washington Redskins, 1975 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| leftTeamInYear | Washington Redskins, 1988 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
St. Louis Cardinals
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington Redskins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dominant run-stopping defensive tackle
ⓘ
key member of Washington Redskins defenses in the 1980s ⓘ |
| notableStatistic | one of the largest players of his era in the NFL ⓘ |
| numberOfProBowls | 1 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lafayette, Alabama, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Swansea, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedForCollegeTeam | Purdue Boilermakers football NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInSuperBowl |
Super Bowl XVII
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Super Bowl XVIII NERFINISHED ⓘ Super Bowl XXII NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | defensive tackle ⓘ |
| residence | Swansea, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| selectedToProBowlInSeason | 1983 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| SuperBowlChampion |
Super Bowl XVII
NERFINISHED
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Super Bowl XXII NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weight | ~295 lb ⓘ |
| yearsActiveInNFL | 1973–1988 ⓘ |
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: Dave Butz Description of subject: Dave Butz was a dominant American football defensive tackle best known for his long NFL career with the Washington Redskins, where he became a key part of their Super Bowl–winning defenses in the 1980s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.