The House That Devaney Built
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"The House That Devaney Built" is a nickname for the University of Nebraska's Memorial Stadium, honoring legendary football coach and athletic director Bob Devaney’s transformative impact on the program.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The House That Devaney Built canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10509436 — 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: The House That Devaney Built Context triple: [Memorial Stadium, alsoKnownAs, The House That Devaney Built]
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A.
The Cavanaughs
The Cavanaughs is an American television sitcom best known for featuring actress Christine Ebersole in a prominent role.
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B.
The House that will not Stand
The House That Will Not Stand is a play by Marcus Gardley that explores race, gender, and power in 19th-century New Orleans through the story of a free Black Creole widow and her daughters.
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C.
Our House
Our House is an American family drama television series from the 1980s starring Wilford Brimley as the gruff but caring patriarch of a multigenerational household.
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D.
Our House
Our House is a satirical play by Theresa Rebeck that critiques the intersection of reality television, corporate media, and American culture.
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E.
Our House
"Our House" is a 1982 hit single by British ska/pop band Madness, known for its catchy melody and nostalgic lyrics about family life.
- 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: The House That Devaney Built Target entity description: "The House That Devaney Built" is a nickname for the University of Nebraska's Memorial Stadium, honoring legendary football coach and athletic director Bob Devaney’s transformative impact on the program.
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A.
The Cavanaughs
The Cavanaughs is an American television sitcom best known for featuring actress Christine Ebersole in a prominent role.
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B.
The House that will not Stand
The House That Will Not Stand is a play by Marcus Gardley that explores race, gender, and power in 19th-century New Orleans through the story of a free Black Creole widow and her daughters.
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C.
Our House
Our House is an American family drama television series from the 1980s starring Wilford Brimley as the gruff but caring patriarch of a multigenerational household.
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D.
Our House
"Our House" is a classic folk-rock song by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, celebrated for its warm, domestic imagery and rich vocal harmonies.
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E.
Our House
Our House is a satirical play by Theresa Rebeck that critiques the intersection of reality television, corporate media, and American culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | stadium nickname ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | nickname for Memorial Stadium ⓘ |
| appliesTo | University of Nebraska's Memorial Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedConference |
Big 12 Conference
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Big Eight Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ Big Ten Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedEra | Bob Devaney coaching era ⓘ |
| associatedWithInstitution | University of Nebraska–Lincoln NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithProgram | Nebraska Cornhuskers athletics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTeam | Nebraska Cornhuskers football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalSignificance | symbol of Nebraska Cornhuskers football tradition ⓘ |
| hasTheme | legacy of Bob Devaney ⓘ |
| homeVenueOf | Nebraska Cornhuskers football home games ⓘ |
| honors | Bob Devaney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English nickname ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Lincoln, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedForRole |
athletic director
ⓘ
football coach ⓘ |
| reasonForName | Bob Devaney’s transformative impact on Nebraska football program ⓘ |
| refersTo | Memorial Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refersToFacilityType | college football stadium ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| typeOfName | honorific nickname ⓘ |
| usedFor | college football games ⓘ |
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: The House That Devaney Built Description of subject: "The House That Devaney Built" is a nickname for the University of Nebraska's Memorial Stadium, honoring legendary football coach and athletic director Bob Devaney’s transformative impact on the program.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.