Teryl Austin
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Teryl Austin is an American football coach best known for his work as a defensive coordinator in the NFL, including with the Detroit Lions and Pittsburgh Steelers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Teryl Austin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T260694 — 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: Teryl Austin Context triple: [Super Bowl XLIX, coinTossParticipant, Teryl Austin]
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A.
Cheryl Alley
Cheryl Alley, also known as Cheryl Howard, is an American writer and actress best known as the longtime wife of filmmaker Ron Howard.
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B.
Merritt Paulson
Merritt Paulson is an American sports executive best known for owning and leading Portland’s professional soccer clubs, including the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer and the Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League.
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C.
Dub Taylor
Dub Taylor was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in Westerns and supporting roles in film and television from the 1930s through the 1990s.
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D.
Ken Howery
Ken Howery is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of PayPal who later served as a partner at Founders Fund and as U.S. Ambassador to Sweden.
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E.
Pat Tilley
Pat Tilley is a former American football wide receiver best known for his productive NFL career with the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1970s and early 1980s.
- 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: Teryl Austin Target entity description: Teryl Austin is an American football coach best known for his work as a defensive coordinator in the NFL, including with the Detroit Lions and Pittsburgh Steelers.
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A.
Cheryl Alley
Cheryl Alley, also known as Cheryl Howard, is an American writer and actress best known as the longtime wife of filmmaker Ron Howard.
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B.
Merritt Paulson
Merritt Paulson is an American sports executive best known for owning and leading Portland’s professional soccer clubs, including the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer and the Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League.
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C.
Dub Taylor
Dub Taylor was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in Westerns and supporting roles in film and television from the 1930s through the 1990s.
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D.
Ken Howery
Ken Howery is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of PayPal who later served as a partner at Founders Fund and as U.S. Ambassador to Sweden.
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E.
Pat Tilley
Pat Tilley is a former American football wide receiver best known for his productive NFL career with the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1970s and early 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
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human ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Detroit Lions
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Pittsburgh Steelers ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | defense in American football ⓘ |
| leagueCoachedIn | National Football League ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Detroit Lions defensive coordinator
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Pittsburgh Steelers defensive coordinator ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
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defensive coordinator ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
defensive coordinator for Detroit Lions
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defensive coordinator for Pittsburgh Steelers ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
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: Teryl Austin Description of subject: Teryl Austin is an American football coach best known for his work as a defensive coordinator in the NFL, including with the Detroit Lions and Pittsburgh Steelers.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.