Rocky Bleier
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Rocky Bleier is a former Pittsburgh Steelers running back and Vietnam War veteran renowned for his courageous return to professional football after being severely wounded in combat.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rocky Bleier canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10384697 — 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: Rocky Bleier Context triple: [NCAA Award of Valor recipients, notableRecipient, Rocky Bleier]
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A.
John Cappelletti
John Cappelletti is a former American football running back best known for winning the 1973 Heisman Trophy at Penn State and later playing in the NFL.
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B.
Lynn Swann
Lynn Swann is a former American football wide receiver, best known as a Pro Football Hall of Famer and four-time Super Bowl champion with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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C.
Joe Theismann
Joe Theismann is a former NFL quarterback best known for leading Washington to a Super Bowl XVII victory and for his later work as a football broadcaster.
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D.
Bernie Kosar
Bernie Kosar is a former American football quarterback best known for leading the University of Miami to a national championship and later starring in the NFL with the Cleveland Browns.
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E.
Franco Harris
Franco Harris was a Hall of Fame NFL running back best known for his role in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 1970s dynasty and the iconic “Immaculate Reception.”
- 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: Rocky Bleier Target entity description: Rocky Bleier is a former Pittsburgh Steelers running back and Vietnam War veteran renowned for his courageous return to professional football after being severely wounded in combat.
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A.
John Cappelletti
John Cappelletti is a former American football running back best known for winning the 1973 Heisman Trophy at Penn State and later playing in the NFL.
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B.
Lynn Swann
Lynn Swann is a former American football wide receiver, best known as a Pro Football Hall of Famer and four-time Super Bowl champion with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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C.
Joe Theismann
Joe Theismann is a former NFL quarterback best known for leading Washington to a Super Bowl XVII victory and for his later work as a football broadcaster.
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D.
Bernie Kosar
Bernie Kosar is a former American football quarterback best known for leading the University of Miami to a national championship and later starring in the NFL with the Cleveland Browns.
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E.
Franco Harris
Franco Harris was a Hall of Fame NFL running back best known for his role in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 1970s dynasty and the iconic “Immaculate Reception.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
ⓘ
Vietnam War veteran ⓘ human ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | University of Notre Dame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collegeFootballHallOfFameId | 2010 ⓘ |
| collegeTeam | Notre Dame Fighting Irish football NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | Vietnam War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-03-05 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Pittsburgh Steelers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| draftRound | 16 ⓘ |
| draftYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| fullName | Robert Patrick Bleier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | autobiography ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction | College Football Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height | 5 ft 11 in ⓘ |
| heightInMeters | 1.80 ⓘ |
| highSchoolAttended | Xavier High School (Appleton, Wisconsin) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jerseyRetiredBy | Xavier High School (Appleton, Wisconsin) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| militaryAward |
Bronze Star Medal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Purple Heart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| nickname | Rocky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | returning to professional football after severe combat injuries ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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motivational speaker ⓘ |
| partOf | Pittsburgh Steelers 1970s dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Appleton, Wisconsin, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor | Pittsburgh Steelers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedWith | Franco Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | running back ⓘ |
| receivingYardsInNFL | 1294 ⓘ |
| receptionsInNFL | 136 ⓘ |
| residence | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retiredFromPlaying | 1980 ⓘ |
| rushingTouchdownsInNFL | 23 ⓘ |
| rushingYardsInNFL | 3865 ⓘ |
| superBowlChampion |
Super Bowl IX
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Super Bowl X NERFINISHED ⓘ Super Bowl XIII NERFINISHED ⓘ Super Bowl XIV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamNumber |
20
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26 ⓘ |
| weightInKilograms | 96 ⓘ |
| weightInPounds | 212 ⓘ |
| woundedIn | Vietnam War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote | Fighting Back NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Rocky Bleier Description of subject: Rocky Bleier is a former Pittsburgh Steelers running back and Vietnam War veteran renowned for his courageous return to professional football after being severely wounded in combat.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.