Erin McDermott
E23724
Erin McDermott is a collegiate sports administrator best known as the athletic director at Harvard University.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Erin McDermott canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15445 — 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: Erin McDermott Context triple: [Crimson, athleticDirector, Erin McDermott]
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A.
Emma Savage Rogers
Emma Savage Rogers was the wife of William Barton Rogers, the 19th-century American geologist and founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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B.
Julie Packard
Julie Packard is a marine biologist and conservationist best known as the founding executive director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium and a prominent advocate for ocean conservation.
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C.
Ann Sadler
Ann Sadler was the wife of John Harvard, the English clergyman and benefactor after whom Harvard University is named.
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D.
Katherine Rogers
Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
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E.
Katherine Puening
Katherine Puening, better known as Kitty Oppenheimer, was a German-born American biologist and former Communist Party member who became the wife and close confidante of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
- 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: Erin McDermott Target entity description: Erin McDermott is a collegiate sports administrator best known as the athletic director at Harvard University.
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A.
Emma Savage Rogers
Emma Savage Rogers was the wife of William Barton Rogers, the 19th-century American geologist and founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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B.
Julie Packard
Julie Packard is a marine biologist and conservationist best known as the founding executive director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium and a prominent advocate for ocean conservation.
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C.
Ann Sadler
Ann Sadler was the wife of John Harvard, the English clergyman and benefactor after whom Harvard University is named.
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D.
Katherine Rogers
Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
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E.
Katherine Puening
Katherine Puening, better known as Kitty Oppenheimer, was a German-born American biologist and former Communist Party member who became the wife and close confidante of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
athletic director
ⓘ
human ⓘ sports administrator ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Hofstra University ⓘ |
| employer |
Harvard Crimson athletics department
ⓘ
linked to:
Harvard Crimson athletics
Harvard University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | college athletics administration ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
academic success of student-athletes
ⓘ
competitive excellence in college sports ⓘ student-athlete welfare ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasExperienceIn |
Title IX compliance in athletics
ⓘ
intercollegiate athletics management ⓘ sports administration leadership ⓘ student-athlete support ⓘ |
| hasRole | director of athletics ⓘ |
| industry |
NCAA athletics
ⓘ
linked to:
National Collegiate Athletic Association
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Harvard University administration ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as athletic director at Harvard University ⓘ |
| notableRole | first woman to serve as athletic director at Harvard University ⓘ |
| occupation |
athletic director
ⓘ
collegiate sports administrator ⓘ |
| positionHeld | athletic director at Harvard University ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | college basketball player ⓘ |
| sportPlayed | basketball ⓘ |
| workLocation | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| worksOn |
diversity and inclusion in athletics
ⓘ
fundraising for athletic programs ⓘ oversight of varsity sports teams at Harvard University ⓘ strategic planning for athletics programs ⓘ |
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: Erin McDermott Description of subject: Erin McDermott is a collegiate sports administrator best known as the athletic director at Harvard University.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.