Jim Hines
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Jim Hines was an American sprinter and Olympic gold medalist best known for being the first man to officially break the 10-second barrier in the 100-meter dash.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jim Hines canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T541376 — 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: Jim Hines Context triple: [McClymonds High School, notableAlumnus, Jim Hines]
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A.
John Pehle
John Pehle was an American Treasury Department official who became the first executive director of the War Refugee Board and played a key role in U.S. efforts to rescue Jews and other persecuted people during the Holocaust.
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B.
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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C.
Dave Niehaus
Dave Niehaus was the longtime Hall of Fame broadcaster and iconic play-by-play voice of the Seattle Mariners.
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D.
Lance Cumson
Lance Cumson is a central, often scheming heir in the 1980s American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," known for his turbulent family and romantic entanglements.
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E.
Marty Lyons
Marty Lyons is a former American football defensive lineman best known as a key member of the New York Jets' famed "New York Sack Exchange" pass-rushing unit in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
- 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: Jim Hines Target entity description: Jim Hines was an American sprinter and Olympic gold medalist best known for being the first man to officially break the 10-second barrier in the 100-meter dash.
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A.
John Pehle
John Pehle was an American Treasury Department official who became the first executive director of the War Refugee Board and played a key role in U.S. efforts to rescue Jews and other persecuted people during the Holocaust.
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B.
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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C.
Dave Niehaus
Dave Niehaus was the longtime Hall of Fame broadcaster and iconic play-by-play voice of the Seattle Mariners.
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D.
Lance Cumson
Lance Cumson is a central, often scheming heir in the 1980s American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," known for his turbulent family and romantic entanglements.
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E.
Marty Lyons
Marty Lyons is a former American football defensive lineman best known as a key member of the New York Jets' famed "New York Sack Exchange" pass-rushing unit in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic athlete
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Olympic gold medalist ⓘ human ⓘ sprinter ⓘ |
| causeOfFame | breaking the 10-second barrier in the 100 metres ⓘ |
| collegeTeam | Texas Southern University ⓘ |
| competitionClass |
men's 100 metres
ⓘ
men's 4 × 100 metres relay ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-09-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2023-06-03 ⓘ |
| education | Texas Southern University ⓘ |
| era | 20th-century athletics ⓘ |
| event | 1968 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| familyName | Hines ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| heritage | African American ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| name | Jim Hines ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | first man to officially break 10 seconds in the 100-metre dash ⓘ |
| notableFor | electronic-timed 100-metre world record ⓘ |
| occupation | sprinter ⓘ |
| olympicDiscipline | track sprinting ⓘ |
| olympicGames | 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Dumas, Arkansas, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Hayward, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Hayward
|
| playedSport | American football ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | wide receiver ⓘ |
| professionalTeam |
Kansas City Chiefs
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Miami Dolphins ⓘ |
| representedCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| setWorldRecordIn |
100 metres
ⓘ
4 × 100 metres relay ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| specialty |
100 metres
ⓘ
4 × 100 metres relay ⓘ |
| sport |
athletics
ⓘ
track and field ⓘ |
| timingMethod | fully automatic timing ⓘ |
| wonMedal |
Olympic gold medal in 100 metres
ⓘ
Olympic gold medal in 4 × 100 metres relay ⓘ |
| worldRecordDate | 1968-10-14 ⓘ |
| worldRecordPlace |
Mexico City, Mexico
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linked to:
Mexico City
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| worldRecordTime | 9.95 seconds in 100 metres ⓘ |
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: Jim Hines Description of subject: Jim Hines was an American sprinter and Olympic gold medalist best known for being the first man to officially break the 10-second barrier in the 100-meter dash.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.