C. J. Spiller
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C. J. Spiller is a former American football running back and return specialist best known for his standout college career at Clemson and his tenure in the NFL, primarily with the Buffalo Bills.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| C. J. Spiller canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4226259 — 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: C. J. Spiller Context triple: [Clemson University, hasNotableAlumni, C. J. Spiller]
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A.
Rashaad Penny
Rashaad Penny is an American football running back known for his standout college career at San Diego State and subsequent play in the NFL.
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B.
Landon Brown
Landon Brown is an American television personality and the son of singer Bobby Brown, known for his appearances on reality shows about his family.
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C.
Jacquizz Rodgers
Jacquizz Rodgers is a former American football running back best known for his standout collegiate career at Oregon State and subsequent seasons in the NFL.
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D.
Trey Burton
Trey Burton is an American former NFL tight end best known for throwing the touchdown pass to Nick Foles on the famous "Philly Special" trick play in Super Bowl LII.
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E.
Melvin Gordon
Melvin Gordon is an American football running back known for his standout college career at the University of Wisconsin and subsequent success in the NFL.
- 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: C. J. Spiller Target entity description: C. J. Spiller is a former American football running back and return specialist best known for his standout college career at Clemson and his tenure in the NFL, primarily with the Buffalo Bills.
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A.
Rashaad Penny
Rashaad Penny is an American football running back known for his standout college career at San Diego State and subsequent play in the NFL.
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B.
Landon Brown
Landon Brown is an American television personality and the son of singer Bobby Brown, known for his appearances on reality shows about his family.
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C.
Jacquizz Rodgers
Jacquizz Rodgers is a former American football running back best known for his standout collegiate career at Oregon State and subsequent seasons in the NFL.
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D.
Trey Burton
Trey Burton is an American former NFL tight end best known for throwing the touchdown pass to Nick Foles on the famous "Philly Special" trick play in Super Bowl LII.
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E.
Melvin Gordon
Melvin Gordon is an American football running back known for his standout college career at the University of Wisconsin and subsequent success in the NFL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
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human ⓘ return specialist ⓘ running back ⓘ |
| allProSelection | 2012 second-team All-Pro ⓘ |
| coachingPosition | running backs coach ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | Clemson University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1987-08-05 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Buffalo Bills NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| draftLeague |
National Football League
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surface form:
NFL
|
| draftPickNumber | 9 ⓘ |
| draftRound | 1 ⓘ |
| draftYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| employer | Clemson University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Clifford James Spiller Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Clifford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction | College Football Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInductionYear | 2021 ⓘ |
| highSchoolAttended | Union County High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highSchoolLocation | Lake Butler, Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber |
21
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28 ⓘ |
| knownFor | explosive speed and big-play ability as a running back and returner ⓘ |
| leagueParticipatedIn | National Football League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Buffalo Bills
NERFINISHED
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Clemson Tigers football NERFINISHED ⓘ New Orleans Saints NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Jets NERFINISHED ⓘ Seattle Seahawks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | C. J. Spiller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
ACC Championship Game MVP 2009
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ACC Player of the Year 2009 ⓘ First-team All-American at Clemson ⓘ |
| notableStatistic | over 1,700 yards from scrimmage in 2012 NFL season ⓘ |
| occupation | football coach ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lake Butler, Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedForTeamInYears |
Buffalo Bills 2010–2014
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New Orleans Saints 2015 ⓘ New York Jets 2016 ⓘ Seattle Seahawks 2016 ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
kick returner
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punt returner ⓘ running back ⓘ |
| proBowlSelection | 2012 Pro Bowl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retiredFromPlaying | American football ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| woreNumberForTeam | 28 for Buffalo Bills ⓘ |
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: C. J. Spiller Description of subject: C. J. Spiller is a former American football running back and return specialist best known for his standout college career at Clemson and his tenure in the NFL, primarily with the Buffalo Bills.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.