No. 24 (Rashaan Salaam)
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No. 24 (Rashaan Salaam) is the jersey number worn by Heisman Trophy–winning running back Rashaan Salaam, which the Colorado Buffaloes retired in his honor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| No. 24 (Rashaan Salaam) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6136960 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: No. 24 (Rashaan Salaam) Context triple: [Colorado Buffaloes football, hasRetiredNumber, No. 24 (Rashaan Salaam)]
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A.
24's
"24's" is a hip-hop single by American rapper T.I. that helped establish his early mainstream presence in the Southern rap scene.
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B.
No. 17
No. 17 is a prominent NASCAR stock car number historically fielded by Roush Fenway Racing and associated with several of the team’s most successful drivers and seasons.
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C.
No. 16
No. 16 is a well-known NASCAR car number historically fielded by Roush Fenway Racing in top-level stock car competition.
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D.
24 (TV series)
24 is an American action-thriller television series that follows counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer in real-time as he races to thwart national security threats, with each season depicting 24 hours in his life.
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E.
Rashaan Nall
Rashaan Nall is an American actor, writer, and director known for his work in film and television, including roles in projects like "Cuts."
- 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: No. 24 (Rashaan Salaam) Target entity description: No. 24 (Rashaan Salaam) is the jersey number worn by Heisman Trophy–winning running back Rashaan Salaam, which the Colorado Buffaloes retired in his honor.
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A.
24's
"24's" is a hip-hop single by American rapper T.I. that helped establish his early mainstream presence in the Southern rap scene.
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B.
No. 17
No. 17 is a prominent NASCAR stock car number historically fielded by Roush Fenway Racing and associated with several of the team’s most successful drivers and seasons.
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C.
No. 16
No. 16 is a well-known NASCAR car number historically fielded by Roush Fenway Racing in top-level stock car competition.
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D.
24 (TV series)
24 is an American action-thriller television series that follows counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer in real-time as he races to thwart national security threats, with each season depicting 24 hours in his life.
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E.
Rashaan Nall
Rashaan Nall is an American actor, writer, and director known for his work in film and television, including roles in projects like "Cuts."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
retired jersey number
ⓘ
sports jersey number ⓘ |
| associatedWithAward | Heisman Trophy ⓘ |
| category | retired numbers in college football ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| homeStadium | Folsom Field ⓘ |
| homeStadiumTeam | Colorado Buffaloes football ⓘ |
| honors |
Heisman Trophy winner Rashaan Salaam
ⓘ
linked to:
Rashaan Salaam
|
| jerseyNumber | 24 ⓘ |
| league |
NCAA Division I football
ⓘ
linked to:
Football Bowl Subdivision
|
| level | college football ⓘ |
| position | running back ⓘ |
| reasonForRetirement | commemoration of Rashaan Salaam’s achievements at Colorado ⓘ |
| retiredBy |
Colorado Buffaloes football program
ⓘ
linked to:
Colorado Buffaloes football
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| retiredInHonorOf | Rashaan Salaam ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| team | Colorado Buffaloes football ⓘ |
| university | University of Colorado Boulder ⓘ |
| wornBy | Rashaan Salaam ⓘ |
| wornDuring | Rashaan Salaam’s college career at Colorado Buffaloes football ⓘ |
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: No. 24 (Rashaan Salaam) Description of subject: No. 24 (Rashaan Salaam) is the jersey number worn by Heisman Trophy–winning running back Rashaan Salaam, which the Colorado Buffaloes retired in his honor.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.