Teresa Weatherspoon
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Teresa Weatherspoon is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach best known as an original WNBA star and defensive standout at point guard.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Teresa Weatherspoon canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T919429 — 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: Teresa Weatherspoon Context triple: [New York Liberty, notablePlayer, Teresa Weatherspoon]
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Connie Hawkins
Connie Hawkins was an American Basketball Hall of Famer known for his spectacular, high-flying play in the ABA and NBA, particularly with the Pittsburgh/Minnesota franchise and later the Phoenix Suns.
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B.
Courtney Hodges
Courtney Hodges was a senior U.S. Army general in World War II who led First Army in Western Europe, playing a key role in the Allied advance from Normandy into Germany.
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C.
Cheryl Howard
Cheryl Howard is an American writer and actress best known as the wife of filmmaker Ron Howard and the mother of actress Bryce Dallas Howard.
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D.
Jennifer Azzi
Jennifer Azzi is a former American basketball star and Olympic gold medalist who led Stanford University to an NCAA championship before playing professionally and later becoming a coach and sports executive.
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E.
Chamique Holdsclaw
Chamique Holdsclaw is a former American basketball star and Hall of Famer widely regarded as one of the greatest players in women’s college and professional basketball history.
- 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: Teresa Weatherspoon Target entity description: Teresa Weatherspoon is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach best known as an original WNBA star and defensive standout at point guard.
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A.
Connie Hawkins
Connie Hawkins was an American Basketball Hall of Famer known for his spectacular, high-flying play in the ABA and NBA, particularly with the Pittsburgh/Minnesota franchise and later the Phoenix Suns.
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B.
Courtney Hodges
Courtney Hodges was a senior U.S. Army general in World War II who led First Army in Western Europe, playing a key role in the Allied advance from Normandy into Germany.
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C.
Cheryl Howard
Cheryl Howard is an American writer and actress best known as the wife of filmmaker Ron Howard and the mother of actress Bryce Dallas Howard.
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D.
Jennifer Azzi
Jennifer Azzi is a former American basketball star and Olympic gold medalist who led Stanford University to an NCAA championship before playing professionally and later becoming a coach and sports executive.
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E.
Chamique Holdsclaw
Chamique Holdsclaw is a former American basketball star and Hall of Famer widely regarded as one of the greatest players in women’s college and professional basketball history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Teresa Weatherspoon Description of subject: Teresa Weatherspoon is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach best known as an original WNBA star and defensive standout at point guard.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.