Pat Riggin
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Pat Riggin is a former Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the World Hockey Association and the National Hockey League during the late 1970s and 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pat Riggin canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5972795 — 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: Pat Riggin Context triple: [Birmingham Bulls (WHA), notablePlayer, Pat Riggin]
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A.
Clem Hill
Clem Hill was a prominent Australian cricketer of the early 20th century, renowned as one of the game's finest left-handed batsmen and a former captain of the national team.
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B.
Bobby Bowden
Bobby Bowden was a legendary American college football coach best known for transforming Florida State University into a national powerhouse and winning two national championships.
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C.
Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz is a Hall of Fame American college football coach best known for revitalizing the University of Notre Dame’s football program and leading it to the 1988 national championship.
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D.
Gene Stallings
Gene Stallings is an American football coach best known for leading Texas A&M and later winning a national championship as head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 1990s.
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E.
Dan Devine
Dan Devine was a prominent American college and professional football coach best known for leading the University of Notre Dame to the 1977 national championship.
- 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: Pat Riggin Target entity description: Pat Riggin is a former Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the World Hockey Association and the National Hockey League during the late 1970s and 1980s.
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A.
Clem Hill
Clem Hill was a prominent Australian cricketer of the early 20th century, renowned as one of the game's finest left-handed batsmen and a former captain of the national team.
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B.
Bobby Bowden
Bobby Bowden was a legendary American college football coach best known for transforming Florida State University into a national powerhouse and winning two national championships.
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C.
Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz is a Hall of Fame American college football coach best known for revitalizing the University of Notre Dame’s football program and leading it to the 1988 national championship.
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D.
Gene Stallings
Gene Stallings is an American football coach best known for leading Texas A&M and later winning a national championship as head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 1990s.
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E.
Dan Devine
Dan Devine was a prominent American college and professional football coach best known for leading the University of Notre Dame to the 1977 national championship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
ice hockey player ⓘ |
| careerEnd | 1987 ⓘ |
| careerStart | 1978 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-05-26 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Atlanta Flames ⓘ |
| draftPosition | 33rd overall ⓘ |
| draftYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| father | Dennis Riggin ⓘ |
| leaguePlayedIn |
National Hockey League
ⓘ
World Hockey Association ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Atlanta Flames
ⓘ
Birmingham Bulls ⓘ Boston Bruins ⓘ Calgary Flames ⓘ Washington Capitals ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | shared William M. Jennings Trophy ⓘ |
| occupation | ice hockey player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
ⓘ
linked to:
Kitchener
|
| playedFor |
Atlanta Flames
ⓘ
Birmingham Bulls ⓘ Boston Bruins ⓘ Calgary Flames ⓘ Washington Capitals ⓘ |
| playedIn |
National Hockey League
ⓘ
World Hockey Association ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | goaltender ⓘ |
| shootsOrCatches | left ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| WHAdraftPosition | 34th overall ⓘ |
| WHAdraftYear | 1977 ⓘ |
| WHAteamDraftedBy | Birmingham Bulls ⓘ |
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: Pat Riggin Description of subject: Pat Riggin is a former Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the World Hockey Association and the National Hockey League during the late 1970s and 1980s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.