Larry Johnson
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Larry Johnson is a former American basketball star best known for leading UNLV to the 1990 NCAA championship before becoming an NBA All-Star with the Charlotte Hornets and New York Knicks.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larry Johnson canonical | 7 |
| Larry Demetric Johnson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1440894 — 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: Larry Johnson Context triple: [UNLV Runnin' Rebels men's basketball, notablePlayer, Larry Johnson]
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A.
Brent Barry
Brent Barry is a retired American professional basketball player and two-time NBA champion known for his sharpshooting, high basketball IQ, and victory in the 1996 NBA Slam Dunk Contest.
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B.
Scott Barnes
Scott Barnes is an American college athletics administrator who serves as the athletic director at Oregon State University and has previously held similar roles at several other universities.
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C.
DeVon Harris
DeVon Harris is a songwriter best known for his work on the track "So High."
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D.
Kevin Terry
Kevin Terry is an American soccer referee best known for officiating at the highest levels of U.S. professional soccer, including Major League Soccer championship matches.
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E.
Derrick Brooks
Derrick Brooks is a Hall of Fame NFL linebacker best known for anchoring the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ dominant defense and helping lead the team to a Super Bowl title.
- 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: Larry Johnson Target entity description: Larry Johnson is a former American basketball star best known for leading UNLV to the 1990 NCAA championship before becoming an NBA All-Star with the Charlotte Hornets and New York Knicks.
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A.
Brent Barry
Brent Barry is a retired American professional basketball player and two-time NBA champion known for his sharpshooting, high basketball IQ, and victory in the 1996 NBA Slam Dunk Contest.
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B.
Scott Barnes
Scott Barnes is an American college athletics administrator who serves as the athletic director at Oregon State University and has previously held similar roles at several other universities.
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C.
DeVon Harris
DeVon Harris is a songwriter best known for his work on the track "So High."
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D.
Kevin Terry
Kevin Terry is an American soccer referee best known for officiating at the highest levels of U.S. professional soccer, including Major League Soccer championship matches.
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E.
Derrick Brooks
Derrick Brooks is a Hall of Fame NFL linebacker best known for anchoring the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ dominant defense and helping lead the team to a Super Bowl title.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Larry Johnson Description of subject: Larry Johnson is a former American basketball star best known for leading UNLV to the 1990 NCAA championship before becoming an NBA All-Star with the Charlotte Hornets and New York Knicks.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.