Cedric Maxwell
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Cedric Maxwell is a former NBA forward best known for his key role in the Boston Celtics’ 1981 and 1984 championship teams and for earning the 1981 NBA Finals MVP award.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cedric Maxwell canonical | 7 |
| Cedric Bryan Maxwell | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7854 — 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: Cedric Maxwell Context triple: [Boston Celtics, retiredNumberHonoree, Cedric Maxwell]
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A.
Edwin
Edwin is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "rich friend" or "prosperous friend."
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B.
Wesley Addy
Wesley Addy was an American character actor known for his work on stage, film, and television, including roles in classic movies like "Kiss Me Deadly" and collaborations with director Robert Aldrich.
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C.
John Carver
John Carver was a prominent early Pilgrim leader who became the first governor of Plymouth Colony after the Mayflower’s arrival in 1620.
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D.
Michael Bruce Curry
Michael Bruce Curry is the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and the first African American to hold that position.
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E.
Clifton Collins Jr.
Clifton Collins Jr. is an American character actor known for his versatile roles in films and television series such as "Capote," "Traffic," and "Westworld."
- 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: Cedric Maxwell Target entity description: Cedric Maxwell is a former NBA forward best known for his key role in the Boston Celtics’ 1981 and 1984 championship teams and for earning the 1981 NBA Finals MVP award.
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A.
Edwin
Edwin is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "rich friend" or "prosperous friend."
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B.
Wesley Addy
Wesley Addy was an American character actor known for his work on stage, film, and television, including roles in classic movies like "Kiss Me Deadly" and collaborations with director Robert Aldrich.
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C.
John Carver
John Carver was a prominent early Pilgrim leader who became the first governor of Plymouth Colony after the Mayflower’s arrival in 1620.
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D.
Michael Bruce Curry
Michael Bruce Curry is the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and the first African American to hold that position.
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E.
Clifton Collins Jr.
Clifton Collins Jr. is an American character actor known for his versatile roles in films and television series such as "Capote," "Traffic," and "Westworld."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Cedric Maxwell Description of subject: Cedric Maxwell is a former NBA forward best known for his key role in the Boston Celtics’ 1981 and 1984 championship teams and for earning the 1981 NBA Finals MVP award.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cedric Maxwell