Dennis Erickson
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Dennis Erickson is an American football coach best known for winning two national championships at the University of Miami and for his extensive career in both college and professional football.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dennis Erickson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9848502 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dennis Erickson Context triple: [Salt Lake Stallions, headCoach, Dennis Erickson]
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A.
Jim Mora
Jim Mora is an American football coach best known for leading the UCLA Bruins and previously serving as an NFL head coach with the Atlanta Falcons and Seattle Seahawks.
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B.
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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C.
Chris Ault
Chris Ault is a longtime college football coach best known for his innovative tenure at the University of Nevada, where he popularized the pistol offense.
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D.
Jeff Tedford
Jeff Tedford is an American football coach best known for revitalizing the University of California, Berkeley football program in the 2000s and developing several future NFL quarterbacks.
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E.
LaVell Edwards
LaVell Edwards was a highly influential American college football coach best known for transforming BYU into a national powerhouse with his innovative passing offense and long, successful tenure.
- 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: Dennis Erickson Target entity description: Dennis Erickson is an American football coach best known for winning two national championships at the University of Miami and for his extensive career in both college and professional football.
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A.
Jim Mora
Jim Mora is an American football coach best known for leading the UCLA Bruins and previously serving as an NFL head coach with the Atlanta Falcons and Seattle Seahawks.
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B.
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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C.
Chris Ault
Chris Ault is a longtime college football coach best known for his innovative tenure at the University of Nevada, where he popularized the pistol offense.
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D.
Jeff Tedford
Jeff Tedford is an American football coach best known for revitalizing the University of California, Berkeley football program in the 2000s and developing several future NFL quarterbacks.
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E.
LaVell Edwards
LaVell Edwards was a highly influential American college football coach best known for transforming BYU into a national powerhouse with his innovative passing offense and long, successful tenure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
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National Football League coach ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | college football national championship ⓘ |
| coachedLevel |
college football
ⓘ
professional football ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Arizona State Sun Devils football program
ⓘ
linked to:
Arizona State Sun Devils football team
Idaho Vandals football program ⓘ
linked to:
Idaho Vandals
Oregon State Beavers football program ⓘ
linked to:
Oregon State Beavers football team
San Francisco 49ers ⓘ Seattle Seahawks ⓘ University of Miami ⓘ Wyoming Cowboys football program ⓘ
linked to:
Wyoming Cowboys football team
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| familyName | Erickson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | American football coaching ⓘ |
| genre | offensive-minded football coaching ⓘ |
| givenName | Dennis ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| leagueCoachedIn |
NCAA Division I FBS
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linked to:
NCAA Division I
National Football League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Miami Hurricanes football ⓘ |
| name | Dennis Erickson ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | won two national championships as head coach at Miami ⓘ |
| notableFor |
extensive career in both college and professional football
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winning two national championships at the University of Miami ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
ⓘ
sports coach ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
head coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils football team
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head coach of the Idaho Vandals football team ⓘ head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team ⓘ head coach of the San Francisco 49ers ⓘ head coach of the Seattle Seahawks ⓘ head coach of the Wyoming Cowboys football team ⓘ head football coach at the University of Miami ⓘ |
| 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: Dennis Erickson Description of subject: Dennis Erickson is an American football coach best known for winning two national championships at the University of Miami and for his extensive career in both college and professional football.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Salt Lake Stallions (former)