Tommy Maddox
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Tommy Maddox is a former American football quarterback best known for his comeback from the Arena Football League and XFL to become an NFL starter and 2002 Comeback Player of the Year with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tommy Maddox canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4122186 — 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)
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Target entity: Tommy Maddox Context triple: [Arena Football League, helpedLaunchCareerOf, Tommy Maddox]
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A.
Bill Bolling
Bill Bolling is an American Republican politician who served as the 39th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2014.
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B.
William Roberts
William Roberts was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the classic Western film "The Magnificent Seven" (1960).
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C.
William Roberts
William Roberts was a British painter associated with the Vorticist movement, known for his modernist depictions of urban life and wartime scenes.
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D.
Roy McGivern
Roy McGivern is a Northern Irish football administrator best known for serving as chairman of Linfield FC, one of the country’s most successful and historic clubs.
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E.
Ward Greene
Ward Greene was an American writer and editor best known for creating the story that inspired Disney’s animated film "Lady and the Tramp."
- 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: Tommy Maddox Target entity description: Tommy Maddox is a former American football quarterback best known for his comeback from the Arena Football League and XFL to become an NFL starter and 2002 Comeback Player of the Year with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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A.
Bill Bolling
Bill Bolling is an American Republican politician who served as the 39th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2014.
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B.
William Roberts
William Roberts was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the classic Western film "The Magnificent Seven" (1960).
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C.
William Roberts
William Roberts was a British painter associated with the Vorticist movement, known for his modernist depictions of urban life and wartime scenes.
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D.
Roy McGivern
Roy McGivern is a Northern Irish football administrator best known for serving as chairman of Linfield FC, one of the country’s most successful and historic clubs.
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E.
Ward Greene
Ward Greene was an American writer and editor best known for creating the story that inspired Disney’s animated film "Lady and the Tramp."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Tommy Maddox Description of subject: Tommy Maddox is a former American football quarterback best known for his comeback from the Arena Football League and XFL to become an NFL starter and 2002 Comeback Player of the Year with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.