Rod Wood
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Rod Wood is an American sports executive best known for serving as the president of the NFL’s Detroit Lions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rod Wood canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1757286 — 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: Rod Wood Context triple: [Detroit Lions, president, Rod Wood]
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A.
Rod Robbie
Rod Robbie was a prominent Canadian architect best known for designing Toronto’s pioneering retractable-roof stadium, now called the Rogers Centre.
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B.
Don Ameche
Don Ameche was an American actor and radio star best known for his charismatic performances in classic Hollywood films and later for his Academy Award–winning role in the 1980s.
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C.
Ralph Nelson
Ralph Nelson was an American film and television director, producer, and writer known for works such as "Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight."
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D.
Russell Pearce
Russell Pearce is an American politician and former Arizona state senator best known for championing hardline immigration legislation, including the controversial SB 1070 law.
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E.
Rance Howard
Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
- 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: Rod Wood Target entity description: Rod Wood is an American sports executive best known for serving as the president of the NFL’s Detroit Lions.
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A.
Rod Robbie
Rod Robbie was a prominent Canadian architect best known for designing Toronto’s pioneering retractable-roof stadium, now called the Rogers Centre.
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B.
Don Ameche
Don Ameche was an American actor and radio star best known for his charismatic performances in classic Hollywood films and later for his Academy Award–winning role in the 1980s.
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C.
Ralph Nelson
Ralph Nelson was an American film and television director, producer, and writer known for works such as "Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight."
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D.
Russell Pearce
Russell Pearce is an American politician and former Arizona state senator best known for championing hardline immigration legislation, including the controversial SB 1070 law.
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E.
Rance Howard
Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football team executive
ⓘ
businessperson ⓘ human ⓘ sports executive ⓘ |
| affiliation | National Football League ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Detroit, Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Detroit
|
| businessSector | professional sports franchises ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Detroit Lions ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | American football ⓘ |
| genre | professional sports management ⓘ |
| hasRole |
front office executive
ⓘ
team president ⓘ |
| industry |
entertainment industry
ⓘ
sports industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | serving as president of the NFL’s Detroit Lions ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
National Football League executives
ⓘ
linked to:
NFL league office
|
| notableFor | leadership of the Detroit Lions front office ⓘ |
| notableWork | executive management of the Detroit Lions NFL franchise ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
sports executive ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of the Detroit Lions ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Detroit, Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Detroit
|
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: Rod Wood Description of subject: Rod Wood is an American sports executive best known for serving as the president of the NFL’s Detroit Lions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.