Mark Geiger
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Mark Geiger is a retired American soccer referee known for officiating at Major League Soccer’s highest levels and multiple FIFA World Cups.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mark Geiger canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4338063 — 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: Mark Geiger Context triple: [2011 MLS Cup, referee, Mark Geiger]
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A.
Scott Ehrlich
Scott Ehrlich is a notable individual recognized for his contributions in his professional field, though specific widely known details about his work are not clearly established from the given information.
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B.
Anthony Meyer
Anthony Meyer is a British politician and former Conservative Member of Parliament best known for mounting a symbolic leadership challenge against Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1989.
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C.
Mark Rosenberg
Mark Rosenberg was an American film producer known for his work on notable movies of the 1980s and early 1990s.
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D.
Matthew Shafer
Matthew Shafer is an American writer known for his work on the animated series "Cowboy Bebop" and related projects.
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E.
Matthew Shafer
Matthew Shafer, better known by his stage name Uncle Kracker, is an American singer-songwriter and musician recognized for his blend of rock, country, and pop influences.
- 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: Mark Geiger Target entity description: Mark Geiger is a retired American soccer referee known for officiating at Major League Soccer’s highest levels and multiple FIFA World Cups.
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A.
Scott Ehrlich
Scott Ehrlich is a notable individual recognized for his contributions in his professional field, though specific widely known details about his work are not clearly established from the given information.
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B.
Anthony Meyer
Anthony Meyer is a British politician and former Conservative Member of Parliament best known for mounting a symbolic leadership challenge against Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1989.
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C.
Mark Rosenberg
Mark Rosenberg was an American film producer known for his work on notable movies of the 1980s and early 1990s.
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D.
Matthew Shafer
Matthew Shafer is an American writer known for his work on the animated series "Cowboy Bebop" and related projects.
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E.
Matthew Shafer
Matthew Shafer, better known by his stage name Uncle Kracker, is an American singer-songwriter and musician recognized for his blend of rock, country, and pop influences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football referee
ⓘ
human ⓘ sports official ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
MLS Referee of the Year
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linked to:
MLS Referee of the Year Award
MLS Referee of the Year 2011 ⓘ MLS Referee of the Year 2014 ⓘ |
| confederationOfActivity | CONCACAF ⓘ |
| continentOfActivity | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
PRO (Professional Referee Organization)
ⓘ
linked to:
Professional Referee Organization
|
| fieldOfWork |
professional soccer refereeing
ⓘ
sports officiating ⓘ |
| FIFAListedReferee | true ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| leagueOfficiated | Major League Soccer ⓘ |
| notableWork |
officiating at Major League Soccer’s highest levels
ⓘ
officiating multiple FIFA World Cup matches ⓘ |
| occupation |
association football referee
ⓘ
mathematics teacher ⓘ soccer referee ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
2014 FIFA World Cup
ⓘ
2018 FIFA World Cup ⓘ CONCACAF Champions League ⓘ
linked to:
CONCACAF Champions Cup
CONCACAF Gold Cup ⓘ Copa América Centenario ⓘ
linked to:
2016 Copa América Centenario
|
| retired | true ⓘ |
| roleInEvent |
referee at 2014 FIFA World Cup
ⓘ
referee at 2018 FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
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: Mark Geiger Description of subject: Mark Geiger is a retired American soccer referee known for officiating at Major League Soccer’s highest levels and multiple FIFA World Cups.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.