1985 (Minnesota Vikings)
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American football coach
Minnesota Vikings season
NFL season
NFL team
professional sports league
stadium
1985 (Minnesota Vikings) refers to the NFL season in which the Minnesota Vikings were led once again by legendary head coach Bud Grant, who came out of retirement to guide the team.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 1985 (Minnesota Vikings) canonical | 1 |
| 1985 Minnesota Vikings season | 1 |
| 1985 NFL season | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6537902 — 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: 1985 (Minnesota Vikings) Context triple: [Bud Grant, returnedAsHeadCoach, 1985 (Minnesota Vikings)]
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A.
1985 Chicago Bears season
The 1985 Chicago Bears season was a dominant NFL campaign in which the Bears fielded one of the greatest defenses in league history and went on to win the Super Bowl.
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B.
1985 AFC Championship Game
The 1985 AFC Championship Game was the NFL playoff matchup in which the New England Patriots upset the Miami Dolphins at the Orange Bowl to advance to their first Super Bowl appearance.
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C.
Minnesota Vikings
The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis that competes in the National Football League and is known for its passionate fan base and distinctive purple and gold colors.
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D.
Minnesota Vikings Ring of Honor
The Minnesota Vikings Ring of Honor is the franchise’s exclusive hall of fame recognizing players, coaches, and contributors who have made outstanding and lasting impacts on the team’s history.
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E.
1981 NFC Wild Card Game
The 1981 NFC Wild Card Game was a pivotal NFL playoff matchup between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles that marked the Giants’ first postseason appearance in nearly two decades and helped reignite their long-standing rivalry.
- 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: 1985 (Minnesota Vikings) Target entity description: 1985 (Minnesota Vikings) refers to the NFL season in which the Minnesota Vikings were led once again by legendary head coach Bud Grant, who came out of retirement to guide the team.
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A.
1985 Chicago Bears season
The 1985 Chicago Bears season was a dominant NFL campaign in which the Bears fielded one of the greatest defenses in league history and went on to win the Super Bowl.
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B.
1985 AFC Championship Game
The 1985 AFC Championship Game was the NFL playoff matchup in which the New England Patriots upset the Miami Dolphins at the Orange Bowl to advance to their first Super Bowl appearance.
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C.
Minnesota Vikings
The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis that competes in the National Football League and is known for its passionate fan base and distinctive purple and gold colors.
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D.
Minnesota Vikings Ring of Honor
The Minnesota Vikings Ring of Honor is the franchise’s exclusive hall of fame recognizing players, coaches, and contributors who have made outstanding and lasting impacts on the team’s history.
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E.
1981 NFC Wild Card Game
The 1981 NFC Wild Card Game was a pivotal NFL playoff matchup between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles that marked the Giants’ first postseason appearance in nearly two decades and helped reignite their long-standing rivalry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
ⓘ
Minnesota Vikings season ⓘ NFL season ⓘ NFL team ⓘ professional sports league ⓘ stadium ⓘ |
| city | Minneapolis ⓘ |
| conference |
NFC
ⓘ
NFC ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| division |
NFC Central
ⓘ
NFC North ⓘ |
| headCoach | Bud Grant ⓘ |
| headCoachOf | Minnesota Vikings ⓘ |
| headCoachReturnFromRetirement | true ⓘ |
| homeStadium |
Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
ⓘ
Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| location | Minneapolis ⓘ |
| nextSeason | 1986 Minnesota Vikings season ⓘ |
| previousSeason | 1984 Minnesota Vikings season ⓘ |
| returnedToCoach |
1985 Minnesota Vikings season
ⓘ
linked to:
1985 (Minnesota Vikings)
|
| sport |
American football
ⓘ
American football ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| team | Minnesota Vikings ⓘ |
| year | 1985 ⓘ |
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: 1985 (Minnesota Vikings) Description of subject: 1985 (Minnesota Vikings) refers to the NFL season in which the Minnesota Vikings were led once again by legendary head coach Bud Grant, who came out of retirement to guide the team.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: 1985 (Minnesota Vikings)
subject linked to:
1985 (Minnesota Vikings)
linked to: 1985 (Minnesota Vikings)