Stephen Gostkowski
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Stephen Gostkowski is a former NFL placekicker best known for his long, successful tenure with the New England Patriots, during which he became one of the most accurate and highest-scoring kickers in league history.
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| Stephen Gostkowski canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11196370 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Stephen Gostkowski Context triple: [Miracle in Miami game on December 9, 2018, awayTeamKicker, Stephen Gostkowski]
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David Akers
David Akers is a former American football placekicker best known for his long and successful NFL career, primarily with the Philadelphia Eagles, during which he became one of the league’s most accurate and highest-scoring kickers.
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Lawrence Tynes
Lawrence Tynes is a former NFL placekicker best known for his clutch performances with the New York Giants, including game-winning field goals in two NFC Championship Games that helped lead the team to Super Bowl titles.
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Adam Vinatieri
Adam Vinatieri is a former NFL placekicker renowned for his clutch performances and game-winning field goals in multiple Super Bowls, primarily with the New England Patriots.
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Dave Prater
Dave Prater was an American soul and R&B singer best known as one half of the influential duo Sam & Dave, famed for hits like "Soul Man" and "Hold On, I'm Comin'."
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Justin McCarthy
Justin McCarthy is a name shared by several notable figures, including an Irish nationalist politician and historian, as well as a contemporary American historian and author known for his work on Middle Eastern and Ottoman history.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Stephen Gostkowski Target entity description: Stephen Gostkowski is a former NFL placekicker best known for his long, successful tenure with the New England Patriots, during which he became one of the most accurate and highest-scoring kickers in league history.
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A.
David Akers
David Akers is a former American football placekicker best known for his long and successful NFL career, primarily with the Philadelphia Eagles, during which he became one of the league’s most accurate and highest-scoring kickers.
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B.
Lawrence Tynes
Lawrence Tynes is a former NFL placekicker best known for his clutch performances with the New York Giants, including game-winning field goals in two NFC Championship Games that helped lead the team to Super Bowl titles.
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C.
Adam Vinatieri
Adam Vinatieri is a former NFL placekicker renowned for his clutch performances and game-winning field goals in multiple Super Bowls, primarily with the New England Patriots.
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D.
Dave Prater
Dave Prater was an American soul and R&B singer best known as one half of the influential duo Sam & Dave, famed for hits like "Soul Man" and "Hold On, I'm Comin'."
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E.
Justin McCarthy
Justin McCarthy is a name shared by several notable figures, including an Irish nationalist politician and historian, as well as a contemporary American historian and author known for his work on Middle Eastern and Ottoman history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
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human ⓘ placekicker ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| careerHighlight |
multiple All-Pro selections
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multiple Pro Bowl selections ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | University of Memphis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collegeTeam | Memphis Tigers football NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1984-01-28 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | New England Patriots NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Gostkowski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Stephen Carroll Gostkowski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Stephen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| handedness | right-footed ⓘ |
| height | 6 ft 1 in ⓘ |
| highSchool | Madison Central High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highSchoolLocation | Madison, Mississippi, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber |
3
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4 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
consistency on field goals and extra points
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strong leg on kickoffs ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| NFLDraftPickNumber | 118 ⓘ |
| NFLDraftRound | 4 ⓘ |
| NFLDraftYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the highest-scoring kickers in NFL history
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being one of the most accurate kickers in NFL history ⓘ long tenure with the New England Patriots ⓘ |
| occupation | professional athlete ⓘ |
| playedFor |
New England Patriots
NERFINISHED
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Tennessee Titans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | placekicker ⓘ |
| role |
placekicker for New England Patriots
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placekicker for Tennessee Titans ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| teamAchievement | member of multiple New England Patriots Super Bowl championship teams ⓘ |
| teamRecord |
New England Patriots all-time leading scorer
NERFINISHED
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New England Patriots record for most extra points made ⓘ New England Patriots record for most field goals made ⓘ |
| weight | 215 lb ⓘ |
| won |
Super Bowl LI
NERFINISHED
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Super Bowl LIII NERFINISHED ⓘ Super Bowl XLIX 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: Stephen Gostkowski Description of subject: Stephen Gostkowski is a former NFL placekicker best known for his long, successful tenure with the New England Patriots, during which he became one of the most accurate and highest-scoring kickers in league history.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Miracle in Miami game on December 9, 2018