Kevin Tillman
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Kevin Tillman is a former U.S. Army Ranger and ex–professional baseball player best known as the brother of Pat Tillman and for his subsequent criticism of the Iraq War and the handling of Pat’s death.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kevin Tillman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5865850 — 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: Kevin Tillman Context triple: [Pat Tillman, sibling, Kevin Tillman]
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A.
Eric Sadler
Eric Sadler is an American hip hop producer best known as a member of the Bomb Squad production team behind Public Enemy’s influential late-1980s recordings.
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B.
William C. McCool
William C. McCool was a United States Navy commander and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot of the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.
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C.
Kirby Smith
Kirby Smith was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known for commanding the vast Trans-Mississippi Department.
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D.
George Tibbets
George Tibbets is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Tibbets, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
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E.
William H. Reynolds
William H. Reynolds was an American film editor renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films across several decades.
- 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: Kevin Tillman Target entity description: Kevin Tillman is a former U.S. Army Ranger and ex–professional baseball player best known as the brother of Pat Tillman and for his subsequent criticism of the Iraq War and the handling of Pat’s death.
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A.
Eric Sadler
Eric Sadler is an American hip hop producer best known as a member of the Bomb Squad production team behind Public Enemy’s influential late-1980s recordings.
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B.
William C. McCool
William C. McCool was a United States Navy commander and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot of the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.
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C.
Kirby Smith
Kirby Smith was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known for commanding the vast Trans-Mississippi Department.
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D.
George Tibbets
George Tibbets is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Tibbets, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
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E.
William H. Reynolds
William H. Reynolds was an American film editor renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films across several decades.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former U.S. Army Ranger
ⓘ
former professional baseball player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| conflict |
Iraq War
ⓘ
War in Afghanistan ⓘ
linked to:
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| criticized |
U.S. government justification for the Iraq War
ⓘ
U.S. military’s handling and cover-up of Pat Tillman’s friendly-fire death ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| notableEvent | enlisted in the U.S. Army with his brother Pat Tillman after the September 11 attacks ⓘ |
| notableFor |
criticism of the Iraq War
ⓘ
criticism of the handling of Pat Tillman’s death ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball player
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Burlington Indians
ⓘ
linked to:
Burlington Bees
Cleveland Indians minor league system ⓘ Columbus RedStixx ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | second baseman ⓘ |
| relative | Pat Tillman ⓘ |
| servedIn |
U.S. Army Rangers
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Army Rangers
United States Army ⓘ |
| sibling | Pat Tillman ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| wrote | open letter in 2006 criticizing the Iraq War and Bush administration policies ⓘ |
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: Kevin Tillman Description of subject: Kevin Tillman is a former U.S. Army Ranger and ex–professional baseball player best known as the brother of Pat Tillman and for his subsequent criticism of the Iraq War and the handling of Pat’s death.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.