Lou Holtz
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Lou Holtz is a Hall of Fame American college football coach best known for revitalizing the University of Notre Dame’s football program and leading it to the 1988 national championship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lou Holtz canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2521867 — 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: Lou Holtz Context triple: [Notre Dame Fighting Irish football, notableCoach, Lou Holtz]
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Ara Parseghian
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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Dick Vermeil
Dick Vermeil is an American football coach best known for leading the St. Louis Rams to a Super Bowl XXXIV victory and for his emotional, motivational coaching style across multiple NFL teams.
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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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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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E.
Lloyd Carr
Lloyd Carr is an American football coach best known for leading the University of Michigan Wolverines to consistent success, including a share of the 1997 national championship.
- 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: Lou Holtz Target entity description: Lou Holtz is a Hall of Fame American college football coach best known for revitalizing the University of Notre Dame’s football program and leading it to the 1988 national championship.
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A.
Ara Parseghian
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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B.
Dick Vermeil
Dick Vermeil is an American football coach best known for leading the St. Louis Rams to a Super Bowl XXXIV victory and for his emotional, motivational coaching style across multiple NFL teams.
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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.
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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E.
Lloyd Carr
Lloyd Carr is an American football coach best known for leading the University of Michigan Wolverines to consistent success, including a share of the 1997 national championship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Lou Holtz Description of subject: Lou Holtz is a Hall of Fame American college football coach best known for revitalizing the University of Notre Dame’s football program and leading it to the 1988 national championship.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.