Danny Ford
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Danny Ford is an American football coach best known for leading the Clemson Tigers to the 1981 national championship and becoming one of the program’s most successful head coaches.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Danny Ford canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11598252 — 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: Danny Ford Context triple: [Clemson Tigers football, notableCoach, Danny Ford]
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A.
Buck Ford
Buck Ford is the son of famed American country and gospel singer and television host Tennessee Ernie Ford.
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B.
Tom Drysdale
Tom Drysdale is a notable individual recognized as a prominent bearer of the Drysdale surname.
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C.
Fred Ford
Fred Ford is a video game designer and programmer best known as the co-creator of the Star Control series and co-founder of the game development studio Toys for Bob.
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D.
Randy Ford
Randy Ford is a member of the Ford family from Toronto, known primarily as the brother of the late former Toronto mayor Rob Ford.
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E.
Trevor Ford
Trevor Ford was a British geologist and paleontologist noted for his influential work on the fossils and geology of Charnwood Forest and the Peak District.
- 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: Danny Ford Target entity description: Danny Ford is an American football coach best known for leading the Clemson Tigers to the 1981 national championship and becoming one of the program’s most successful head coaches.
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A.
Buck Ford
Buck Ford is the son of famed American country and gospel singer and television host Tennessee Ernie Ford.
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B.
Tom Drysdale
Tom Drysdale is a notable individual recognized as a prominent bearer of the Drysdale surname.
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C.
Fred Ford
Fred Ford is a video game designer and programmer best known as the co-creator of the Star Control series and co-founder of the game development studio Toys for Bob.
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D.
Randy Ford
Randy Ford is a member of the Ford family from Toronto, known primarily as the brother of the late former Toronto mayor Rob Ford.
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E.
Trevor Ford
Trevor Ford was a British geologist and paleontologist noted for his influential work on the fossils and geology of Charnwood Forest and the Peak District.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Alabama ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
ACC Coach of the Year 1981
ⓘ
AFCA Coach of the Year 1981 ⓘ
linked to:
AFCA Coach of the Year
Broyles Award finalist ⓘ
linked to:
Broyles Award
|
| coachOf |
Arkansas Razorbacks football
ⓘ
linked to:
University of Arkansas Razorbacks football
Clemson Tigers football ⓘ South Carolina Gamecocks football ⓘ
linked to:
South Carolina Gamecocks
Virginia Tech Hokies football ⓘ
linked to:
Hokies
Wichita State Shockers football ⓘ
linked to:
Wichita State Shockers
|
| conferenceChampionshipWon |
ACC football championship 1978
ⓘ
ACC football championship 1981 ⓘ ACC football championship 1982 ⓘ ACC football championship 1986 ⓘ ACC football championship 1987 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1938-04-02 ⓘ |
| employer |
Alabama Crimson Tide football
ⓘ
Clemson University ⓘ University of Arkansas ⓘ University of South Carolina ⓘ Virginia Tech ⓘ Wichita State University ⓘ |
| familyName | Ford ⓘ |
| givenName | Danny ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction |
Alabama Sports Hall of Fame
ⓘ
Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| headCoachEnd |
Arkansas Razorbacks football 1997
ⓘ
linked to:
University of Arkansas Razorbacks football
Clemson Tigers football 1989 ⓘ |
| headCoachStart |
Arkansas Razorbacks football 1993
ⓘ
Clemson Tigers football 1978 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being one of Clemson’s most successful head coaches
ⓘ
leading Clemson Tigers to 1981 national championship ⓘ |
| ledTeamTo | Clemson Tigers 1981 national championship ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Alabama Crimson Tide football ⓘ |
| name | Danny Ford ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Head coach of Arkansas Razorbacks football
ⓘ
Head coach of Clemson Tigers football ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
ⓘ
American football player ⓘ |
| overallRecordAsHeadCoach | 96–48–5 ⓘ |
| overallRecordAtArkansas | 20–21–1 ⓘ |
| overallRecordAtClemson | 76–27–4 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Gadsden, Alabama, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Gadsden, Alabama
|
| playedFor | Alabama Crimson Tide football ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | offensive tackle ⓘ |
| wonBowlGame | 1982 Orange Bowl ⓘ |
| wonTitle | 1981 NCAA Division I-A football national championship ⓘ |
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: Danny Ford Description of subject: Danny Ford is an American football coach best known for leading the Clemson Tigers to the 1981 national championship and becoming one of the program’s most successful head coaches.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.