Tim Cofield
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Tim Cofield is a former professional gridiron football defensive end/linebacker who played in both the NFL and CFL, earning multiple CFL All-Star honors.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tim Cofield canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11818128 — 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: Tim Cofield Context triple: [Memphis Mad Dogs, notablePlayer, Tim Cofield]
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A.
Eric Crouch
Eric Crouch is a former American college quarterback best known for his dynamic dual-threat play at the University of Nebraska, where he became one of the nation’s top offensive stars in the early 2000s.
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B.
Matt Fink
Matt Fink is an American keyboardist best known for his work with Prince and The Revolution, where he performed under the persona "Doctor Fink."
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C.
Phil Coffin
Phil Coffin is a former New Zealand rugby union prop who played at provincial level and earned recognition for his powerful scrummaging and front-row play.
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D.
Michael Wilford
Michael Wilford was a British architect known for his postmodern designs and for continuing the work of James Stirling on prominent cultural and public buildings.
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E.
Greg Corbin
Greg Corbin is a character from the animated television series "American Dad!", known as Stan Smith’s liberal, openly gay neighbor and local news anchor.
- 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: Tim Cofield Target entity description: Tim Cofield is a former professional gridiron football defensive end/linebacker who played in both the NFL and CFL, earning multiple CFL All-Star honors.
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A.
Eric Crouch
Eric Crouch is a former American college quarterback best known for his dynamic dual-threat play at the University of Nebraska, where he became one of the nation’s top offensive stars in the early 2000s.
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B.
Matt Fink
Matt Fink is an American keyboardist best known for his work with Prince and The Revolution, where he performed under the persona "Doctor Fink."
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C.
Phil Coffin
Phil Coffin is a former New Zealand rugby union prop who played at provincial level and earned recognition for his powerful scrummaging and front-row play.
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D.
Michael Wilford
Michael Wilford was a British architect known for his postmodern designs and for continuing the work of James Stirling on prominent cultural and public buildings.
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E.
Greg Corbin
Greg Corbin is a character from the animated television series "American Dad!", known as Stan Smith’s liberal, openly gay neighbor and local news anchor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defensive end
ⓘ
gridiron football player ⓘ human ⓘ linebacker ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American football
ⓘ
Canadian football ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasPlayedRole | defensive player ⓘ |
| leagueAchievement | CFL All-Star selection ⓘ |
| notableFor | playing professional football in both NFL and CFL ⓘ |
| numberOfCFLAllStarSelections | multiple ⓘ |
| occupation | professional football player ⓘ |
| playedInLeague |
Canadian Football League
ⓘ
National Football League ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
defensive end
ⓘ
linebacker ⓘ |
| sport | gridiron football ⓘ |
| status | retired athlete ⓘ |
| typeOfAthlete |
gridiron football defensive end
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gridiron football linebacker ⓘ |
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: Tim Cofield Description of subject: Tim Cofield is a former professional gridiron football defensive end/linebacker who played in both the NFL and CFL, earning multiple CFL All-Star honors.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.