Bob Devaney
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Bob Devaney was a highly successful American college football coach best known for transforming the University of Nebraska’s program into a national powerhouse and winning multiple national championships in the 1960s and 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bob Devaney canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8905451 — 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: Bob Devaney Context triple: [Nebraska Cornhuskers football, notableCoach, Bob Devaney]
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A.
Gerry Cooney
Gerry Cooney is an American former heavyweight boxer best known for his powerful left hook and high-profile 1980s title fights, including his bout with Larry Holmes.
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B.
Dennis Murphy
Dennis Murphy was an American sports entrepreneur best known for co-founding several upstart professional leagues, including the American Basketball Association.
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C.
Donald Malarkey
Donald Malarkey was a real-life U.S. Army paratrooper of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was famously depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
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D.
Tom Keogh
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E.
Gerald Geraghty
Gerald Geraghty was an American screenwriter known for his work on mid-20th-century Western films.
- 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: Bob Devaney Target entity description: Bob Devaney was a highly successful American college football coach best known for transforming the University of Nebraska’s program into a national powerhouse and winning multiple national championships in the 1960s and 1970s.
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A.
Gerry Cooney
Gerry Cooney is an American former heavyweight boxer best known for his powerful left hook and high-profile 1980s title fights, including his bout with Larry Holmes.
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B.
Dennis Murphy
Dennis Murphy was an American sports entrepreneur best known for co-founding several upstart professional leagues, including the American Basketball Association.
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C.
Donald Malarkey
Donald Malarkey was a real-life U.S. Army paratrooper of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was famously depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
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D.
Tom Keogh
Tom Keogh was a noted costume designer best known for his work in mid-20th-century theatre and film productions.
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E.
Gerald Geraghty
Gerald Geraghty was an American screenwriter known for his work on mid-20th-century Western films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| almaMater | Alma College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | AFCA Coach of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coached | Tom Osborne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coachingRecord | 101–20–2 at Nebraska (college football) ⓘ |
| conferenceChampionshipWon | multiple Big Eight Conference football championships with Nebraska ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1915-04-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1997-05-09 ⓘ |
| employer |
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime |
1961 (head coach at Wyoming Cowboys football team)
ⓘ
1972 (head coach at Nebraska Cornhuskers football team) ⓘ 1993 (athletic director at University of Nebraska–Lincoln) ⓘ |
| fullName | Robert S. Devaney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | college football ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInductionYear | 1981 (College Football Hall of Fame) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headCoachOf |
Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wyoming Cowboys football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Lincoln, Nebraska (Bob Devaney Sports Center) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | College Football Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Navy ⓘ |
| nationalChampionshipWon |
1970 NCAA University Division football national championship
ⓘ
1971 NCAA University Division football national championship ⓘ |
| nickname | Bob Devaney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
ended Nebraska’s long period of football mediocrity and established sustained national prominence
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led Nebraska to back-to-back national championships in 1970 and 1971 ⓘ |
| notableWork | building Nebraska Cornhuskers into a national football powerhouse ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
ⓘ
athletic director ⓘ |
| overallRecord | 136–30–7 (college football head coach) ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Saginaw, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Lincoln, Nebraska, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
athletic director at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln
ⓘ
head football coach at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln ⓘ head football coach at the University of Wyoming ⓘ |
| residence | Lincoln, Nebraska, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| stadiumNamedAfter | Bob Devaney Sports Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime |
1957 (head coach at Wyoming Cowboys football team)
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1962 (head coach at Nebraska Cornhuskers football team) ⓘ 1967 (athletic director at University of Nebraska–Lincoln) ⓘ |
| successor | Tom Osborne (as Nebraska head football coach) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Bob Devaney Description of subject: Bob Devaney was a highly successful American college football coach best known for transforming the University of Nebraska’s program into a national powerhouse and winning multiple national championships in the 1960s and 1970s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Nebraska Cornhuskers football