Willie Clay
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Willie Clay is a former American football defensive lineman best known for his NFL career, including winning Super Bowl XXXI with the New England Patriots.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Willie Clay canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11842219 — 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: Willie Clay Context triple: [Clay, notableBearer, Willie Clay]
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A.
Willie Weeks
Willie Weeks is an acclaimed American bass guitarist known for his versatile session work with numerous prominent rock, soul, and pop artists.
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B.
Willie Howard
Willie Howard was an American vaudeville and Broadway comedian and actor known for his comic performances in early 20th-century stage and film productions.
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C.
Willie Clayton
Willie Clayton is an American soul and blues singer known for his smooth vocals and contributions to contemporary Southern soul music.
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D.
Willie Taylor
Willie Taylor is an American R&B singer and reality TV personality best known as a member of the MTV-formed group Day26.
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E.
Willie Rae Johnson
Willie Rae Johnson is the supportive and often humorous mother of Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson in the television series "The Closer."
- 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: Willie Clay Target entity description: Willie Clay is a former American football defensive lineman best known for his NFL career, including winning Super Bowl XXXI with the New England Patriots.
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A.
Willie Weeks
Willie Weeks is an acclaimed American bass guitarist known for his versatile session work with numerous prominent rock, soul, and pop artists.
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B.
Willie Howard
Willie Howard was an American vaudeville and Broadway comedian and actor known for his comic performances in early 20th-century stage and film productions.
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C.
Willie Clayton
Willie Clayton is an American soul and blues singer known for his smooth vocals and contributions to contemporary Southern soul music.
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D.
Willie Taylor
Willie Taylor is an American R&B singer and reality TV personality best known as a member of the MTV-formed group Day26.
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E.
Willie Rae Johnson
Willie Rae Johnson is the supportive and often humorous mother of Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson in the television series "The Closer."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football player
ⓘ
defensive back ⓘ human ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | Georgia Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1970-09-05 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Detroit Lions ⓘ |
| draftLeague |
NFL
ⓘ
linked to:
National Football League
|
| draftPickNumber | 221 ⓘ |
| draftRound | 8 ⓘ |
| familyName | Clay ⓘ |
| givenName | Willie ⓘ |
| height | approximately 5 ft 10 in ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Detroit Lions
ⓘ
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football ⓘ New England Patriots ⓘ New Orleans Saints ⓘ |
| name | Willie Clay ⓘ |
| notableWork | winning Super Bowl XXXI with the New England Patriots ⓘ |
| occupation | American football player ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
National Football League
ⓘ
Super Bowl XXXI ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
| positionPlayed |
cornerback
ⓘ
defensive back ⓘ safety ⓘ |
| relative |
Dwight Clay
ⓘ
Michael Jordan Clay ⓘ |
| 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: Willie Clay Description of subject: Willie Clay is a former American football defensive lineman best known for his NFL career, including winning Super Bowl XXXI with the New England Patriots.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.