Bill Yoast
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Bill Yoast is a high school football coach portrayed in the film "Remember the Titans," known for his integrity, dedication to his players, and role in supporting racial integration on his team.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bill Yoast canonical | 7 |
| Yoast | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7494847 — 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: Bill Yoast Context triple: [Remember the Titans, mainCharacter, Bill Yoast]
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A.
Ted Wheeler
Ted Wheeler is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who has served as the mayor of Portland, Oregon, overseeing the city through periods of significant protest and policy debate.
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B.
Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg is an American entrepreneur and developer best known as the co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic.
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C.
Dave Winer
Dave Winer is a software developer and blogger best known as a pioneer of web syndication and blogging technologies, including key contributions to the development of RSS.
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D.
David Karp
David Karp is an American web developer and entrepreneur best known for creating the microblogging platform Tumblr.
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E.
Greg Germann
Greg Germann is an American actor best known for his role as the uptight, comedic lawyer Richard Fish on the television series "Ally McBeal."
- 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: Bill Yoast Target entity description: Bill Yoast is a high school football coach portrayed in the film "Remember the Titans," known for his integrity, dedication to his players, and role in supporting racial integration on his team.
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A.
Ted Wheeler
Ted Wheeler is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who has served as the mayor of Portland, Oregon, overseeing the city through periods of significant protest and policy debate.
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B.
Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg is an American entrepreneur and developer best known as the co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic.
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C.
Dave Winer
Dave Winer is a software developer and blogger best known as a pioneer of web syndication and blogging technologies, including key contributions to the development of RSS.
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D.
David Karp
David Karp is an American web developer and entrepreneur best known for creating the microblogging platform Tumblr.
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E.
Greg Germann
Greg Germann is an American actor best known for his role as the uptight, comedic lawyer Richard Fish on the television series "Ally McBeal."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| basedOn |
real-life high school football coach Bill Yoast
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linked to:
Coach Bill Yoast in Remember the Titans
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| coachedWith | Herman Boone ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | T. C. Williams High School ⓘ |
| familyName |
Yoast
ⓘ
linked to:
Bill Yoast
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| genreOfNotableWork | sports drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Bill ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn |
T. C. Williams High School football team
ⓘ
linked to:
T.C. Williams Titans football team
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| knownFor |
dedication to his players
ⓘ
defensive coordinator at T. C. Williams High School ⓘ integrity as a coach ⓘ supporting racial integration on his team ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
T. C. Williams High School football team
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linked to:
T.C. Williams Titans football team
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| narrativeFocus | racial integration in high school football ⓘ |
| notableWork | Remember the Titans ⓘ |
| occupation | high school football coach ⓘ |
| partOf | T. C. Williams Titans coaching staff ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Will Patton ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | Remember the Titans ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
assistant coach
ⓘ
defensive coordinator ⓘ |
| residence | Alexandria, Virginia ⓘ |
| sport | American 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: Bill Yoast Description of subject: Bill Yoast is a high school football coach portrayed in the film "Remember the Titans," known for his integrity, dedication to his players, and role in supporting racial integration on his team.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.