Lloyd Ball
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Lloyd Ball is a former American volleyball setter renowned for leading the U.S. men’s national team to the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and for his long, distinguished international career.
All labels observed (1)
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| Lloyd Ball canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18212101 — 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: Lloyd Ball Context triple: [United States men’s national volleyball team, notablePlayer, Lloyd Ball]
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A.
Max Ballard
Max Ballard is a central teen character from the 1990s Canadian TV series "Breaker High," which follows high school students attending classes aboard a cruise ship.
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B.
Lloyd Vaughan
Lloyd Vaughan was an American animator best known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoons during the Golden Age of animation, contributing to many classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts.
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C.
Jack Bicknell
Jack Bicknell is an American football coach best known for leading Boston College to national prominence in the 1980s, including the famed Doug Flutie era and the 1984 Cotton Bowl victory.
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D.
Henry Boucher
Henry Boucher was a French political figure known for co-founding the center-right Democratic Republican Alliance during the Third Republic.
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E.
Wilfred Johnson
Wilfred Johnson was the paternal grandfather of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and a British politician of Turkish descent who served as a Conservative Party councillor.
- 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: Lloyd Ball Target entity description: Lloyd Ball is a former American volleyball setter renowned for leading the U.S. men’s national team to the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and for his long, distinguished international career.
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A.
Max Ballard
Max Ballard is a central teen character from the 1990s Canadian TV series "Breaker High," which follows high school students attending classes aboard a cruise ship.
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B.
Lloyd Vaughan
Lloyd Vaughan was an American animator best known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoons during the Golden Age of animation, contributing to many classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts.
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C.
Jack Bicknell
Jack Bicknell is an American football coach best known for leading Boston College to national prominence in the 1980s, including the famed Doug Flutie era and the 1984 Cotton Bowl victory.
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D.
Henry Boucher
Henry Boucher was a French political figure known for co-founding the center-right Democratic Republican Alliance during the Third Republic.
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E.
Wilfred Johnson
Wilfred Johnson was the paternal grandfather of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and a British politician of Turkish descent who served as a Conservative Party councillor.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.