Matthew Robert Birk
E937941
Matthew Robert Birk is a former American football center who played primarily for the Minnesota Vikings and Baltimore Ravens, earning multiple Pro Bowl selections and a Super Bowl title.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matthew Robert Birk canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11464165 — 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: Matthew Robert Birk Context triple: [Matt Birk, fullName, Matthew Robert Birk]
-
A.
Matthew Stuecken
Matthew Stuecken is a film screenwriter best known for co-writing the psychological sci-fi thriller "10 Cloverfield Lane."
-
B.
Matthew Skemp
Matthew Skemp is a musician best known as a member of the experimental indie rock band Volcano Choir.
-
C.
Matthew Nelson
Matthew Nelson is an American musician best known as one half of the twin brother rock duo Nelson and as a son of rock and roll star Ricky Nelson.
-
D.
Ryan Dusick
Ryan Dusick is an American musician best known as the original drummer and a founding member of the pop rock band Maroon 5.
-
E.
Matthew Kragen
Matthew Kragen is the wealthy, self-serving retail magnate and primary antagonist in the comedy film "Last Holiday."
- 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: Matthew Robert Birk Target entity description: Matthew Robert Birk is a former American football center who played primarily for the Minnesota Vikings and Baltimore Ravens, earning multiple Pro Bowl selections and a Super Bowl title.
-
A.
Matthew Stuecken
Matthew Stuecken is a film screenwriter best known for co-writing the psychological sci-fi thriller "10 Cloverfield Lane."
-
B.
Matthew Skemp
Matthew Skemp is a musician best known as a member of the experimental indie rock band Volcano Choir.
-
C.
Matthew Nelson
Matthew Nelson is an American musician best known as one half of the twin brother rock duo Nelson and as a son of rock and roll star Ricky Nelson.
-
D.
Ryan Dusick
Ryan Dusick is an American musician best known as the original drummer and a founding member of the pop rock band Maroon 5.
-
E.
Matthew Kragen
Matthew Kragen is the wealthy, self-serving retail magnate and primary antagonist in the comedy film "Last Holiday."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
ⓘ
center (American football) ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Pro Bowl selection NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collegeTeam | Harvard Crimson football NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competitionClass | professional sports ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Minnesota Vikings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Harvard University ⓘ |
| familyName | Birk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Matthew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Baltimore Ravens
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Minnesota Vikings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Matthew Robert Birk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
earned multiple Pro Bowl selections
ⓘ
won a Super Bowl title with the Baltimore Ravens ⓘ |
| numberOfProBowls | multiple ⓘ |
| occupation | American football player ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Super Bowl XLVII NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Baltimore Ravens
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Minnesota Vikings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | center ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| retiredFrom | National Football League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| winnerOf | Super Bowl XLVII 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: Matthew Robert Birk Description of subject: Matthew Robert Birk is a former American football center who played primarily for the Minnesota Vikings and Baltimore Ravens, earning multiple Pro Bowl selections and a Super Bowl title.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.