Barry Alvarez
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Barry Alvarez is a former American college football coach and athletic director best known for transforming the University of Wisconsin–Madison football program into a national contender.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Barry Alvarez canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11761694 — 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: Barry Alvarez Context triple: [Big Ten Coach of the Year, notableRecipient, Barry Alvarez]
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Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz is a Hall of Fame American college football coach best known for revitalizing the University of Notre Dame’s football program and leading it to the 1988 national championship.
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B.
Charlie Weis
Charlie Weis is an American football coach best known for serving as offensive coordinator of the New England Patriots during their early 2000s Super Bowl runs and later as head coach at the University of Notre Dame.
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C.
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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D.
Lloyd Carr
Lloyd Carr is an American football coach best known for leading the University of Michigan Wolverines to consistent success, including a share of the 1997 national championship.
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E.
Sam Shakusky
Sam Shakusky is the earnest, eccentric young Boy Scout protagonist of Wes Anderson’s film "Moonrise Kingdom," known for his runaway romance and precocious independence.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Barry Alvarez Target entity description: Barry Alvarez is a former American college football coach and athletic director best known for transforming the University of Wisconsin–Madison football program into a national contender.
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A.
Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz is a Hall of Fame American college football coach best known for revitalizing the University of Notre Dame’s football program and leading it to the 1988 national championship.
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B.
Charlie Weis
Charlie Weis is an American football coach best known for serving as offensive coordinator of the New England Patriots during their early 2000s Super Bowl runs and later as head coach at the University of Notre Dame.
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C.
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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D.
Lloyd Carr
Lloyd Carr is an American football coach best known for leading the University of Michigan Wolverines to consistent success, including a share of the 1997 national championship.
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E.
Sam Shakusky
Sam Shakusky is the earnest, eccentric young Boy Scout protagonist of Wes Anderson’s film "Moonrise Kingdom," known for his runaway romance and precocious independence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
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college athletics administrator ⓘ human ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Nebraska–Lincoln NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | College Football Hall of Fame induction as a coach ⓘ |
| child | Barry Alvarez Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coachingSpecialty | defensive coaching ⓘ |
| coachOf |
Wisconsin Badgers football team
NERFINISHED
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Wisconsin Badgers in the Rose Bowl ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | University of Nebraska–Lincoln NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-12-30 ⓘ |
| employer | University of Wisconsin–Madison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime |
2005 (as Wisconsin head football coach)
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2021 (as Wisconsin athletic director) ⓘ |
| familyName | Alvarez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | college football ⓘ |
| givenName | Barry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFame | College Football Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headCoachRecord | most wins in Wisconsin Badgers football history ⓘ |
| inductedInHallOfFame | 2010 (College Football Hall of Fame, coach) ⓘ |
| knownFor |
long tenure as Wisconsin athletic director
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transforming Wisconsin football from a struggling program into a consistent winner ⓘ |
| leagueCoachedIn | Big Ten Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Nebraska Cornhuskers football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Barry Alvarez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
became the winningest football coach in Wisconsin Badgers history
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led Wisconsin to multiple Big Ten Conference championships ⓘ led Wisconsin to multiple Rose Bowl victories ⓘ |
| notableWork | rebuilding the Wisconsin Badgers football program into a national contender ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
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American football player ⓘ athletic director ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Langeloth, Pennsylvania, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
athletic director at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
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defensive coordinator at the University of Notre Dame ⓘ head football coach at the University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | linebacker ⓘ |
| previousWorkplace | University of Notre Dame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Madison, Wisconsin, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retirement | retired as Wisconsin athletic director in 2021 ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| spouse | Cindy Alvarez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime |
1990 (as Wisconsin head football coach)
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2004 (as Wisconsin athletic director) ⓘ |
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: Barry Alvarez Description of subject: Barry Alvarez is a former American college football coach and athletic director best known for transforming the University of Wisconsin–Madison football program into a national contender.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.