Ara Parseghian
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Ara Parseghian was a Hall of Fame college football coach best known for revitalizing the University of Notre Dame program in the 1960s and 1970s and winning two national championships.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ara Parseghian canonical | 3 |
| Ara Raoul Parseghian | 1 |
| Parseghian | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2521865 — 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: Ara Parseghian Context triple: [Notre Dame Fighting Irish football, notableCoach, Ara Parseghian]
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A.
Dick Kazmaier
Dick Kazmaier was a celebrated American college football halfback who won the 1951 Heisman Trophy while starring for Princeton University.
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B.
Bo Schembechler
Bo Schembechler was a legendary American college football coach best known for transforming the University of Michigan Wolverines into a perennial powerhouse and for his intense rivalry with Ohio State’s Woody Hayes.
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C.
Tom Osborne
Tom Osborne is a legendary American college football coach and former U.S. congressman best known for leading the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers to three national championships.
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D.
Tom Flores
Tom Flores is a former American football coach and quarterback best known for leading the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders to two Super Bowl victories and becoming one of the first Latino head coaches to win an NFL championship.
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E.
Bear Bryant
Bear Bryant was a legendary American college football coach best known for building the University of Alabama into a national powerhouse.
- 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: Ara Parseghian Target entity description: Ara Parseghian was a Hall of Fame college football coach best known for revitalizing the University of Notre Dame program in the 1960s and 1970s and winning two national championships.
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A.
Dick Kazmaier
Dick Kazmaier was a celebrated American college football halfback who won the 1951 Heisman Trophy while starring for Princeton University.
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B.
Bo Schembechler
Bo Schembechler was a legendary American college football coach best known for transforming the University of Michigan Wolverines into a perennial powerhouse and for his intense rivalry with Ohio State’s Woody Hayes.
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C.
Tom Osborne
Tom Osborne is a legendary American college football coach and former U.S. congressman best known for leading the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers to three national championships.
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D.
Tom Flores
Tom Flores is a former American football coach and quarterback best known for leading the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders to two Super Bowl victories and becoming one of the first Latino head coaches to win an NFL championship.
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E.
Bear Bryant
Bear Bryant was a legendary American college football coach best known for building the University of Alabama into a national powerhouse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
ⓘ
college football coach ⓘ human ⓘ |
| almaMater | Miami University ⓘ |
| awardReceived | College Football Hall of Fame induction ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | hip infection ⓘ |
| coachOf |
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
ⓘ
surface form:
Notre Dame Fighting Irish national championship team 1966
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football ⓘ
surface form:
Notre Dame Fighting Irish national championship team 1973
|
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1923-05-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-08-02 ⓘ |
| employer |
Miami University
ⓘ
Northwestern University ⓘ University of Notre Dame ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Armenian American ⓘ |
| familyName |
Ara Parseghian
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Parseghian
|
| founded | Ara Parseghian Medical Research Fund ⓘ |
| fullName |
Ara Parseghian
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Ara Raoul Parseghian
|
| genre | college football ⓘ |
| givenName | Ara ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Hall of Fame coach ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Michael Parseghian ⓘ |
| headCoachOf |
Miami Redskins football
ⓘ
surface form:
Miami Redskins football team
Northwestern Wildcats ⓘ
surface form:
Northwestern Wildcats football team
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football ⓘ
surface form:
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team
|
| influenced | Notre Dame football culture ⓘ |
| leagueCoachedIn |
Football Bowl Subdivision
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I football
|
| memberOf | College Football Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Miami Redskins football
ⓘ
surface form:
Miami Redskins football team
|
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
revitalized Notre Dame football program
ⓘ
won two national championships at Notre Dame ⓘ |
| notableFor |
strategic game management
ⓘ
turning around struggling football programs ⓘ |
| notableWork | revitalization of Notre Dame football program in the 1960s and 1970s ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
ⓘ
American football player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Akron
ⓘ
surface form:
Akron, Ohio, United States
|
| placeOfDeath | Granger, Indiana, United States ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
defensive back
ⓘ
fullback ⓘ halfback ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
South Bend, Indiana
ⓘ
surface form:
South Bend, Indiana, United States
|
| sport | American football ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Ara Parseghian Description of subject: Ara Parseghian was a Hall of Fame college football coach best known for revitalizing the University of Notre Dame program in the 1960s and 1970s and winning two national championships.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ara Raoul Parseghian
this entity surface form:
Parseghian