Wayne Tinkle
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Wayne Tinkle is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the Oregon State Beavers men's basketball program and previously revitalizing the University of Montana team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wayne Tinkle canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T823199 — 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)
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Target entity: Wayne Tinkle Context triple: [Oregon State Beavers men's basketball, notableCoach, Wayne Tinkle]
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A.
Phil Nevin
Phil Nevin is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and manager best known for his All-Star playing career in the 1990s and 2000s and later managerial roles, including with the Los Angeles Angels.
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B.
Murray Rose
Murray Rose was an Australian freestyle swimming champion who won multiple Olympic gold medals in the 1950s and 1960s and set numerous world records.
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C.
Peter Wilt
Peter Wilt is an American soccer executive best known for launching and leading multiple professional clubs and leagues in the United States, including Major League Soccer’s Chicago Fire.
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D.
Frank Yallop
Frank Yallop is a former Canadian international defender and successful soccer coach best known for leading the San Jose Earthquakes to multiple MLS Cup titles.
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E.
Marc Seriff
Marc Seriff is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early technical leader of the pioneering internet company AOL.
- 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: Wayne Tinkle Target entity description: Wayne Tinkle is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the Oregon State Beavers men's basketball program and previously revitalizing the University of Montana team.
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A.
Phil Nevin
Phil Nevin is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and manager best known for his All-Star playing career in the 1990s and 2000s and later managerial roles, including with the Los Angeles Angels.
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B.
Murray Rose
Murray Rose was an Australian freestyle swimming champion who won multiple Olympic gold medals in the 1950s and 1960s and set numerous world records.
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C.
Peter Wilt
Peter Wilt is an American soccer executive best known for launching and leading multiple professional clubs and leagues in the United States, including Major League Soccer’s Chicago Fire.
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D.
Frank Yallop
Frank Yallop is a former Canadian international defender and successful soccer coach best known for leading the San Jose Earthquakes to multiple MLS Cup titles.
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E.
Marc Seriff
Marc Seriff is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early technical leader of the pioneering internet company AOL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball coach
ⓘ
college basketball coach ⓘ former basketball player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Loyola Marymount University
ⓘ
linked to:
Loyola University of Los Angeles
|
| awardReceived |
Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year
ⓘ
Pac-12 Coach of the Year 2021 (media) ⓘ
linked to:
Pac-12 Coach of the Year
|
| child |
Elle Tinkle
ⓘ
Joslyn Tinkle ⓘ Tres Tinkle ⓘ
linked to:
Tinkle
|
| childPlaysBasketball |
Elle Tinkle
ⓘ
Joslyn Tinkle ⓘ Tres Tinkle ⓘ
linked to:
Tinkle
|
| coachOf |
Montana Grizzlies men's basketball
ⓘ
Oregon State Beavers men's basketball ⓘ |
| collegeTeamPlayedFor | Loyola Marymount Lions men's basketball ⓘ |
| conferenceCoachedIn |
Big Sky Conference
ⓘ
Pac-12 Conference ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1966-01-26 ⓘ |
| employer |
Oregon State University
ⓘ
University of Montana ⓘ |
| familyName | Tinkle ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Wayne ⓘ |
| headCoachEnd | Montana Grizzlies men's basketball 2014 ⓘ |
| headCoachStart |
Montana Grizzlies men's basketball 2006
ⓘ
Oregon State Beavers men's basketball 2014 ⓘ |
| height | about 6 ft 10 in ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| ledTeamTo |
2021 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament Elite Eight with Oregon State
ⓘ
multiple NCAA tournament appearances with Montana ⓘ |
| name | Wayne Tinkle ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leading Oregon State to its first Elite Eight since 1982
ⓘ
revitalizing the University of Montana men's basketball program ⓘ |
| occupation |
basketball coach
ⓘ
basketball player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States ⓘ |
| playedProfessionallyIn |
Europe
ⓘ
South America ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | forward ⓘ |
| residence |
Corvallis, Oregon (area)
ⓘ
linked to:
Corvallis, Oregon
|
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| spouse | Lisa McLeod Tinkle ⓘ |
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: Wayne Tinkle Description of subject: Wayne Tinkle is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the Oregon State Beavers men's basketball program and previously revitalizing the University of Montana team.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.