Mike Carey
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Mike Carey is a former NFL official who became one of the league’s most prominent referees and the first African American to lead a Super Bowl officiating crew.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mike Carey canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T435571 — 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: Mike Carey Context triple: [Super Bowl XLII, referee, Mike Carey]
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A.
Seth MacFarlane
Seth MacFarlane is an American writer, animator, actor, and producer best known as the creator of the animated television series "Family Guy" and co-creator of "American Dad!" and "The Orville."
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B.
Seth Green
Seth Green is an American actor, comedian, and producer best known for his voice work on "Family Guy" and for creating and starring in the stop-motion series "Robot Chicken."
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C.
Mike Henry
Mike Henry is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for voicing characters such as Cleveland Brown on the animated television series Family Guy and its spin-off The Cleveland Show.
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D.
Michael Ian Black
Michael Ian Black is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director known for his work on "The State," "Stella," and numerous stand-up and television appearances.
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E.
Keith Fraase
Keith Fraase is a film editor best known for his work on the movie "Chappaquiddick."
- 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: Mike Carey Target entity description: Mike Carey is a former NFL official who became one of the league’s most prominent referees and the first African American to lead a Super Bowl officiating crew.
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A.
Seth MacFarlane
Seth MacFarlane is an American writer, animator, actor, and producer best known as the creator of the animated television series "Family Guy" and co-creator of "American Dad!" and "The Orville."
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B.
Seth Green
Seth Green is an American actor, comedian, and producer best known for his voice work on "Family Guy" and for creating and starring in the stop-motion series "Robot Chicken."
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C.
Mike Henry
Mike Henry is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for voicing characters such as Cleveland Brown on the animated television series Family Guy and its spin-off The Cleveland Show.
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D.
Michael Ian Black
Michael Ian Black is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director known for his work on "The State," "Stella," and numerous stand-up and television appearances.
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E.
Keith Fraase
Keith Fraase is a film editor best known for his work on the movie "Chappaquiddick."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football official
ⓘ
National Football League referee ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
early 21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employer | National Football League ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | officiating in American football ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName |
Michael
ⓘ
surface form:
Mike
|
| hasRole | referee ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| name | Mike Carey self-link ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
first African American referee to lead a Super Bowl crew
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officiated in the Super Bowl as referee ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the NFL’s most prominent referees
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being the first African American to lead a Super Bowl officiating crew ⓘ |
| occupation |
NFL official
ⓘ
referee ⓘ |
| positionHeld | NFL referee ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| status | retired NFL official ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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: Mike Carey Description of subject: Mike Carey is a former NFL official who became one of the league’s most prominent referees and the first African American to lead a Super Bowl officiating crew.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.