Ron McBride
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Ron McBride is an American football coach best known for revitalizing the University of Utah’s program in the 1990s and later leading Weber State University’s football team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ron McBride canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13464731 — 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)
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Target entity: Ron McBride Context triple: [Weber State Wildcats football, notableCoach, Ron McBride]
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A.
John McBride
John McBride is an American recording engineer and music industry professional best known as the husband of country music singer Martina McBride and the founder of Blackbird Studio in Nashville.
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B.
Bobby Elliott
Bobby Elliott is an English rock drummer best known for his long-time role in the influential band The Hollies.
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C.
Terry McBride
Terry McBride is a Canadian music executive and entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder and CEO of Nettwerk Music Group and for managing prominent artists such as Sarah McLachlan.
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D.
Rod Tidwell
Rod Tidwell is a charismatic, outspoken professional football player in the film "Jerry Maguire," best known for his demand to "show me the money."
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E.
Jon A. McBride
Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
- 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: Ron McBride Target entity description: Ron McBride is an American football coach best known for revitalizing the University of Utah’s program in the 1990s and later leading Weber State University’s football team.
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A.
John McBride
John McBride is an American recording engineer and music industry professional best known as the husband of country music singer Martina McBride and the founder of Blackbird Studio in Nashville.
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B.
Bobby Elliott
Bobby Elliott is an English rock drummer best known for his long-time role in the influential band The Hollies.
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C.
Terry McBride
Terry McBride is a Canadian music executive and entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder and CEO of Nettwerk Music Group and for managing prominent artists such as Sarah McLachlan.
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D.
Rod Tidwell
Rod Tidwell is a charismatic, outspoken professional football player in the film "Jerry Maguire," best known for his demand to "show me the money."
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E.
Jon A. McBride
Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
University of Utah
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Weber State University ⓘ |
| familyName | McBride ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American football coaching
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sports coaching ⓘ |
| genre | college football ⓘ |
| givenName | Ron ⓘ |
| hasRole |
football coach
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head coach ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Ron McBride ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
leading Weber State Wildcats football program
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turning around the University of Utah Utes football program in the 1990s ⓘ |
| notableFor |
revitalizing the University of Utah football program in the 1990s
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serving as head football coach at Weber State University ⓘ |
| notableWork | building a winning football program at the University of Utah ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
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college football coach ⓘ |
| partOf | NCAA college football coaching community ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
head football coach at Weber State University
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head football coach at the University of Utah ⓘ |
| residence | Utah ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| sportDisciplineCoached | college American football ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Ogden, Utah
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Salt Lake City, Utah ⓘ
linked to:
Salt Lake City
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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: Ron McBride Description of subject: Ron McBride is an American football coach best known for revitalizing the University of Utah’s program in the 1990s and later leading Weber State University’s football team.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.