Chris Klieman
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Chris Klieman is an American college football coach best known for leading North Dakota State to multiple FCS national championships before becoming the head coach at Kansas State University.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chris Klieman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5387751 — 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: Chris Klieman Context triple: [North Dakota State Bison football, headCoachEra, Chris Klieman]
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A.
Craig Bohl
Craig Bohl is an American college football coach best known for leading North Dakota State to multiple FCS national championships before becoming the head coach at the University of Wyoming.
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B.
Steve Asmussen
Steve Asmussen is a prominent American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer and Hall of Famer known for conditioning numerous champions and earning record-setting career wins.
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C.
Gene Chizik
Gene Chizik is an American football coach best known for leading Auburn University to the 2010 BCS National Championship.
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D.
Kliff Kingsbury
Kliff Kingsbury is an American football coach and former NFL quarterback best known for his innovative Air Raid–style offenses in both college and professional football.
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E.
Lincoln Riley
Lincoln Riley is an American football coach known for his innovative offensive schemes and success as a head coach at the collegiate level, particularly in developing elite quarterbacks.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Chris Klieman Target entity description: Chris Klieman is an American college football coach best known for leading North Dakota State to multiple FCS national championships before becoming the head coach at Kansas State University.
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A.
Craig Bohl
Craig Bohl is an American college football coach best known for leading North Dakota State to multiple FCS national championships before becoming the head coach at the University of Wyoming.
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B.
Steve Asmussen
Steve Asmussen is a prominent American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer and Hall of Famer known for conditioning numerous champions and earning record-setting career wins.
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C.
Gene Chizik
Gene Chizik is an American football coach best known for leading Auburn University to the 2010 BCS National Championship.
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D.
Kliff Kingsbury
Kliff Kingsbury is an American football coach and former NFL quarterback best known for his innovative Air Raid–style offenses in both college and professional football.
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E.
Lincoln Riley
Lincoln Riley is an American football coach known for his innovative offensive schemes and success as a head coach at the collegiate level, particularly in developing elite quarterbacks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| coachingLevel | college ⓘ |
| coachOf |
Kansas State Wildcats football team
ⓘ
linked to:
Kansas State Wildcats football
North Dakota State Bison football team ⓘ
linked to:
North Dakota State Bison football
|
| conferenceCoachedIn |
Big 12 Conference
ⓘ
Missouri Valley Football Conference ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Kansas State University
ⓘ
Kansas State Wildcats football program ⓘ
linked to:
Kansas State Wildcats football
North Dakota State Bison football program ⓘ
linked to:
North Dakota State Bison football
North Dakota State University ⓘ |
| familyName | Klieman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American football coaching
ⓘ
sports coaching ⓘ |
| genre | American college football ⓘ |
| givenName | Chris ⓘ |
| hasRole |
football coach
ⓘ
program leader for Kansas State football ⓘ |
| hasWonTitle | NCAA Division I FCS Football Championship (multiple times) ⓘ |
| influencedBy | North Dakota State Bison football coaching tradition ⓘ |
| knownFor | winning multiple FCS national championships with North Dakota State ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| leagueCoachedIn |
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
ⓘ
linked to:
Football Bowl Subdivision
NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision ⓘ
linked to:
NCAA Division I FCS
|
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Kansas State Wildcats football (as head coach)
ⓘ
linked to:
Kansas State Wildcats football
North Dakota State Bison football (as head coach) ⓘ
linked to:
North Dakota State Bison football
|
| name | Chris Klieman ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | led North Dakota State to multiple FCS national championships ⓘ |
| notableFor |
head coach of Kansas State Wildcats football team
ⓘ
head coach of North Dakota State Bison football team ⓘ transitioning from FCS powerhouse North Dakota State to Power Five program Kansas State ⓘ |
| occupation | college football coach ⓘ |
| partOf | American college football coaching community ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
head football coach at Kansas State University
ⓘ
head football coach at North Dakota State University ⓘ |
| residence |
Manhattan, Kansas (as Kansas State head coach)
ⓘ
linked to:
Manhattan, Kansas
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| sport | American football ⓘ |
| sportDisciplineCoached | college football ⓘ |
| typeOfCoach | head coach ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Fargo, North Dakota (while at North Dakota State)
ⓘ
linked to:
Fargo, North Dakota
Manhattan, Kansas (while at Kansas State) ⓘ
linked to:
Manhattan, Kansas
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: Chris Klieman Description of subject: Chris Klieman is an American college football coach best known for leading North Dakota State to multiple FCS national championships before becoming the head coach at Kansas State University.
Referenced by (3)
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