Schmid
E322002
Schmid is a surname most notably associated with Sigi Schmid, a highly successful and influential soccer coach in Major League Soccer and U.S. college soccer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Schmid canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3060173 — 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: Schmid Context triple: [Sigi Schmid, familyName, Schmid]
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A.
Schmidt
Schmidt is a common German surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, science, and the arts.
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B.
Pewterschmidt
Pewterschmidt is the wealthy, aristocratic family name of Lois Griffin’s parents in the animated television series "Family Guy."
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C.
Smidovich
Smidovich is an urban-type settlement in Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Oblast, serving as a local administrative and population center in the region.
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D.
Gütermann
Gütermann is a German surname most notably associated with the Gütermann family involved in industry and manufacturing, particularly in the production of sewing threads.
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E.
Scheider
Scheider is the surname of American actor Roy Scheider, best known for his role as Chief Brody in the film "Jaws."
- 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: Schmid Target entity description: Schmid is a surname most notably associated with Sigi Schmid, a highly successful and influential soccer coach in Major League Soccer and U.S. college soccer.
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A.
Schmidt
Schmidt is a common German surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, science, and the arts.
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B.
Pewterschmidt
Pewterschmidt is the wealthy, aristocratic family name of Lois Griffin’s parents in the animated television series "Family Guy."
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C.
Smidovich
Smidovich is an urban-type settlement in Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Oblast, serving as a local administrative and population center in the region.
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D.
Gütermann
Gütermann is a German surname most notably associated with the Gütermann family involved in industry and manufacturing, particularly in the production of sewing threads.
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E.
Scheider
Scheider is the surname of American actor Roy Scheider, best known for his role as Chief Brody in the film "Jaws."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football coach
ⓘ
family name ⓘ human ⓘ sports coach ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Germany
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| derivedFromOccupation | smith ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Schmid self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Sigi Schmid ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| leagueCoachedIn |
Major League Soccer
ⓘ
NCAA men’s soccer ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I men's soccer
|
| notableFor |
success in Major League Soccer
ⓘ
success in U.S. college soccer ⓘ |
| occupation |
football manager
ⓘ
soccer coach ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| variantOf |
Schmidt
ⓘ
Stahl ⓘ
surface form:
Schmied
|
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: Schmid Description of subject: Schmid is a surname most notably associated with Sigi Schmid, a highly successful and influential soccer coach in Major League Soccer and U.S. college soccer.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sigi Schmid