Swann
E330624
American football player
family name
human
politician
surname
television sports commentator
wide receiver
Swann is a surname most prominently associated with Lynn Swann, a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver and former politician.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Swann canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3134509 — 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: Swann Context triple: [Lynn Swann, familyName, Swann]
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A.
Maurice
Maurice is a 1987 British romantic drama film, based on E.M. Forster’s novel, that explores same-sex love and class in early 20th-century England.
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B.
Maurice
Maurice is a masculine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in English and French-speaking countries.
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C.
Marcel
Marcel is a masculine given name of French origin, commonly used in various European countries.
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D.
Monsieur Bonacieux
Monsieur Bonacieux is a minor but pivotal character in Alexandre Dumas' novel "The Three Musketeers," known as Constance Bonacieux's older, miserly husband and d'Artagnan's landlord in Paris.
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E.
Bernard
Bernard is a masculine given name of Old French and Germanic origin, historically borne by notable figures such as military leaders and saints.
- 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: Swann Target entity description: Swann is a surname most prominently associated with Lynn Swann, a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver and former politician.
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A.
Maurice
Maurice is a 1987 British romantic drama film, based on E.M. Forster’s novel, that explores same-sex love and class in early 20th-century England.
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B.
Maurice
Maurice is a masculine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in English and French-speaking countries.
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C.
Marcel
Marcel is a masculine given name of French origin, commonly used in various European countries.
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D.
Monsieur Bonacieux
Monsieur Bonacieux is a minor but pivotal character in Alexandre Dumas' novel "The Three Musketeers," known as Constance Bonacieux's older, miserly husband and d'Artagnan's landlord in Paris.
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E.
Bernard
Bernard is a masculine given name of Old French and Germanic origin, historically borne by notable figures such as military leaders and saints.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
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: Swann Description of subject: Swann is a surname most prominently associated with Lynn Swann, a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver and former politician.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Wilson Cary Swann