Tom Bell
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Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Bell canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T584485 — 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: Tom Bell Context triple: [Super Bowl III, referee, Tom Bell]
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A.
Brian Bilello
Brian Bilello is an American soccer executive best known for leading Major League Soccer’s New England Revolution as the club’s president.
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B.
David Gamble
David Gamble is a film editor best known for his work on the Academy Award–winning romantic comedy-drama "Shakespeare in Love."
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C.
Curtis Stigers
Curtis Stigers is an American jazz and soul-influenced singer, saxophonist, and songwriter known for his early 1990s pop hits and later critically acclaimed jazz recordings.
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D.
Don Maynard
Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver best known as Joe Namath’s primary deep threat and a key offensive star for the New York Jets during the 1960s.
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E.
Kim Carnes
Kim Carnes is an American singer-songwriter best known for her raspy voice and the 1981 hit single "Bette Davis Eyes."
- 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: Tom Bell Target entity description: Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
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A.
Brian Bilello
Brian Bilello is an American soccer executive best known for leading Major League Soccer’s New England Revolution as the club’s president.
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B.
David Gamble
David Gamble is a film editor best known for his work on the Academy Award–winning romantic comedy-drama "Shakespeare in Love."
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C.
Curtis Stigers
Curtis Stigers is an American jazz and soul-influenced singer, saxophonist, and songwriter known for his early 1990s pop hits and later critically acclaimed jazz recordings.
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D.
Don Maynard
Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver best known as Joe Namath’s primary deep threat and a key offensive star for the New York Jets during the 1960s.
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E.
Chuck Cecil
Chuck Cecil is a former American football safety best known for his hard-hitting play in the NFL and his standout collegiate career at the University of Arizona.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | American football official ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | National Football League ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | Officiating in American football ⓘ |
| knownFor | Serving as referee in Super Bowl III ⓘ |
| notableWork | Referee in Super Bowl III ⓘ |
| occupation | American football official ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Super Bowl III ⓘ |
| role | Referee ⓘ |
| 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: Tom Bell Description of subject: Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.