Tillman
E550469
Tillman is a surname most famously associated with Pat Tillman, the former NFL player who left his football career to enlist in the U.S. Army and was killed in Afghanistan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tillman canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5865821 — 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: Tillman Context triple: [Pat Tillman, familyName, Tillman]
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A.
Broun
Broun is an alternative spelling or variant of the surname "Brown," commonly found in historical and regional records.
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B.
Mullen
Mullen is the surname of Larry Mullen Jr., the Irish drummer best known as a founding member of the rock band U2.
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C.
Calhoun
Calhoun is a small city in northwest Georgia known for its location along Interstate 75 and its role as a commercial and historical hub of Gordon County.
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D.
Jeb
Jeb is a masculine given name, often used as a diminutive of names like Jebediah or James.
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E.
Vance
Vance is a surname most prominently associated with Emmy and Tony Award–winning American actor Courtney B. Vance.
- 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: Tillman Target entity description: Tillman is a surname most famously associated with Pat Tillman, the former NFL player who left his football career to enlist in the U.S. Army and was killed in Afghanistan.
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A.
Broun
Broun is an alternative spelling or variant of the surname "Brown," commonly found in historical and regional records.
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B.
Mullen
Mullen is the surname of Larry Mullen Jr., the Irish drummer best known as a founding member of the rock band U2.
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C.
Calhoun
Calhoun is a small city in northwest Georgia known for its location along Interstate 75 and its role as a commercial and historical hub of Gordon County.
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D.
Jeb
Jeb is a masculine given name, often used as a diminutive of names like Jebediah or James.
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E.
Vance
Vance is a surname most prominently associated with Emmy and Tony Award–winning American actor Courtney B. Vance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| awarded |
Purple Heart
ⓘ
Silver Star ⓘ |
| branchOfService | United States Army Rangers ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | friendly fire ⓘ |
| collegeTeam |
Arizona State Sun Devils football
ⓘ
linked to:
Arizona State Sun Devils football team
|
| conflict |
War in Afghanistan
ⓘ
linked to:
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1976-11-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2004-04-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Arizona State University ⓘ |
| familyName | Tillman ⓘ |
| givenName | Patrick ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Pat Tillman ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Marie Tillman ⓘ |
| honoredBy | Pat Tillman Foundation ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 40 ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| memberOf | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | corporal ⓘ |
| notableFor | leaving NFL career to enlist in U.S. Army after September 11 attacks ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football player
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Afghanistan ⓘ |
| playedFor | Arizona Cardinals ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | safety ⓘ |
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: Tillman Description of subject: Tillman is a surname most famously associated with Pat Tillman, the former NFL player who left his football career to enlist in the U.S. Army and was killed in Afghanistan.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.