Cornelius Bennett
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Cornelius Bennett is a former American football linebacker best known for his Pro Bowl career with the Buffalo Bills during their early 1990s Super Bowl runs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cornelius Bennett canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10518510 — 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: Cornelius Bennett Context triple: [1987 NFL season, DefensiveRookieOfTheYear, Cornelius Bennett]
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A.
Cornelius Mathews
Cornelius Mathews was a 19th-century American writer and editor associated with the Young America movement, known for his satirical and nationalistic literary works.
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B.
Cornelius Howard
Cornelius Howard was a member of the prominent Howard family of Maryland and the father of American Revolutionary War officer and statesman John Eager Howard.
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C.
Samuel Weaver
Samuel Weaver was the teenage son of Randy Weaver who was fatally shot by U.S. marshals during the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff in Idaho.
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D.
Samuel Ellis
Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
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E.
Samuel Barnes
Samuel Barnes is an author known for his work with the Juicy brand.
- 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: Cornelius Bennett Target entity description: Cornelius Bennett is a former American football linebacker best known for his Pro Bowl career with the Buffalo Bills during their early 1990s Super Bowl runs.
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A.
Cornelius Mathews
Cornelius Mathews was a 19th-century American writer and editor associated with the Young America movement, known for his satirical and nationalistic literary works.
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B.
Cornelius Howard
Cornelius Howard was a member of the prominent Howard family of Maryland and the father of American Revolutionary War officer and statesman John Eager Howard.
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C.
Samuel Weaver
Samuel Weaver was the teenage son of Randy Weaver who was fatally shot by U.S. marshals during the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff in Idaho.
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D.
Samuel Ellis
Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
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E.
Samuel Barnes
Samuel Barnes is an author known for his work with the Juicy brand.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| allAmericanStatus | consensus All-American at Alabama ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Birmingham, Alabama, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | University of Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collegeAward |
Lombardi Award
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
SEC Player of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1965-08-25 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Indianapolis Colts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| draftLeague |
National Football League
ⓘ
surface form:
NFL
|
| draftPickNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| draftRound | 1 ⓘ |
| draftYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| era | late 20th century American football ⓘ |
| familyName | Bennett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Cornelius O'Landa Bennett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Cornelius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFame | College Football Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height | 6 ft 3 in ⓘ |
| heightInMeters | 1.91 ⓘ |
| highSchoolAttended | Ensley High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inductedIntoCollegeFootballHallOfFame | 2005 ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber |
55
ⓘ
97 ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Atlanta Falcons
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Buffalo Bills NERFINISHED ⓘ Indianapolis Colts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nflAllProSelection | true ⓘ |
| nflPositionCategory | linebacker ⓘ |
| notableCollegeCoach |
Bill Curry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ray Perkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | key defensive player on Buffalo Bills early 1990s Super Bowl teams ⓘ |
| numberOfProBowls | 5 ⓘ |
| playedForTeamFromTo |
Atlanta Falcons, 1996–1998
ⓘ
Buffalo Bills, 1987–1995 NERFINISHED ⓘ Indianapolis Colts, 1999–2000 ⓘ |
| playedInSuperBowl | true ⓘ |
| playsInLeague | National Football League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | linebacker ⓘ |
| primaryRoleOnTeam | defensive leader ⓘ |
| proBowler | true ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| stateOfHighSchool | Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weightInKilograms | 109 ⓘ |
| weightInPounds | 240 ⓘ |
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: Cornelius Bennett Description of subject: Cornelius Bennett is a former American football linebacker best known for his Pro Bowl career with the Buffalo Bills during their early 1990s Super Bowl runs.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.