Fred Swearingen
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Fred Swearingen was an NFL official best known as the referee who made the controversial ruling on the famous "Immaculate Reception" play in 1972.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fred Swearingen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14629346 — 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: Fred Swearingen Context triple: [Immaculate Reception, officiatingCrew, Fred Swearingen]
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A.
Will McDonough
Will McDonough is an American sports journalist best known for his long tenure as an NFL reporter and columnist for The Boston Globe and as a pioneering football analyst on national television.
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B.
Steve Pegram
Steve Pegram is a film producer known for his work on the animated feature "Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget."
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C.
Robert Bolling
Robert Bolling was a prominent 17th-century Virginia planter and politician, known as an early member of the colonial Bolling family that became influential in Southern aristocratic society.
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D.
John W. Regan
John W. Regan was the husband of American silent film actress Helene Costello.
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E.
John Lutz
John Lutz was an American crime and mystery novelist best known for his suspenseful thrillers, several of which were adapted for film and television.
- 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: Fred Swearingen Target entity description: Fred Swearingen was an NFL official best known as the referee who made the controversial ruling on the famous "Immaculate Reception" play in 1972.
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A.
Will McDonough
Will McDonough is an American sports journalist best known for his long tenure as an NFL reporter and columnist for The Boston Globe and as a pioneering football analyst on national television.
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B.
Steve Pegram
Steve Pegram is a film producer known for his work on the animated feature "Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget."
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C.
Robert Bolling
Robert Bolling was a prominent 17th-century Virginia planter and politician, known as an early member of the colonial Bolling family that became influential in Southern aristocratic society.
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D.
John W. Regan
John W. Regan was the husband of American silent film actress Helene Costello.
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E.
John Lutz
John Lutz was an American crime and mystery novelist best known for his suspenseful thrillers, several of which were adapted for film and television.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.