Matt Howard
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Matt Howard is a former American college basketball player best known as a standout forward for Butler University during its back-to-back NCAA Tournament title game runs in 2010 and 2011.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matt Howard canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1168416 — 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: Matt Howard Context triple: [Butler Bulldogs men's basketball, notablePlayer, Matt Howard]
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A.
Bryan Harper
Bryan Harper is an American former professional baseball player and the older brother of MLB star Bryce Harper.
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B.
Jeff Henley
Jeff Henley is an American business executive best known for his long tenure as Oracle Corporation’s chief financial officer and later chairman of the board.
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C.
Clay Morrow
Clay Morrow is a central fictional character in the television series "Sons of Anarchy," known as the manipulative and often ruthless president of the outlaw motorcycle club at the heart of the show.
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D.
Ken Howery
Ken Howery is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of PayPal who later served as a partner at Founders Fund and as U.S. Ambassador to Sweden.
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E.
Mark Herron
Mark Herron was an American actor best known for being the fourth husband of legendary entertainer Judy Garland.
- 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: Matt Howard Target entity description: Matt Howard is a former American college basketball player best known as a standout forward for Butler University during its back-to-back NCAA Tournament title game runs in 2010 and 2011.
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A.
Bryan Harper
Bryan Harper is an American former professional baseball player and the older brother of MLB star Bryce Harper.
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B.
Jeff Henley
Jeff Henley is an American business executive best known for his long tenure as Oracle Corporation’s chief financial officer and later chairman of the board.
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C.
Clay Morrow
Clay Morrow is a central fictional character in the television series "Sons of Anarchy," known as the manipulative and often ruthless president of the outlaw motorcycle club at the heart of the show.
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D.
Ken Howery
Ken Howery is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of PayPal who later served as a partner at Founders Fund and as U.S. Ambassador to Sweden.
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E.
Mark Herron
Mark Herron was an American actor best known for being the fourth husband of legendary entertainer Judy Garland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball player
ⓘ
college basketball player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academic All-American of the Year in men's basketball
ⓘ
Horizon League Player of the Year ⓘ |
| college | Butler University ⓘ |
| collegeTeam |
Butler Bulldogs
ⓘ
linked to:
Butler Bulldogs men's basketball
|
| competitionClass |
NCAA Division I men's basketball
ⓘ
linked to:
NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Butler University ⓘ |
| familyName | Howard ⓘ |
| givenName |
Matt
ⓘ
linked to:
Matty
|
| league | Horizon League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Butler Bulldogs men's basketball ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to Butler's back-to-back NCAA title game appearances in 2010 and 2011
ⓘ
standout forward for Butler University ⓘ |
| notableWork |
key player in Butler University's 2010 NCAA Tournament title game run
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key player in Butler University's 2011 NCAA Tournament title game run ⓘ |
| occupation |
basketball player
ⓘ
student-athlete ⓘ |
| participantIn |
2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
ⓘ
2011 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team
ⓘ
linked to:
Butler Bulldogs men's basketball
|
| positionPlayed |
forward
ⓘ
power forward ⓘ |
| retiredFrom | college basketball ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| sportingNationality | American ⓘ |
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: Matt Howard Description of subject: Matt Howard is a former American college basketball player best known as a standout forward for Butler University during its back-to-back NCAA Tournament title game runs in 2010 and 2011.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.