Tom Tellez
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Tom Tellez is a renowned American track and field coach best known for developing Olympic sprint and long jump champion Carl Lewis and refining modern sprinting technique.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Tellez canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2221247 — 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: Tom Tellez Context triple: [Carl Lewis, coachedBy, Tom Tellez]
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A.
George Pajon Jr.
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B.
Javier Navarrete
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C.
Joe Hortiz
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D.
Guillermo Ramírez
Guillermo Ramírez is a Guatemalan former professional footballer best known for scoring the extra-time winning goal in the 2005 MLS Cup final for the Los Angeles Galaxy.
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E.
Enrique Cerezo
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- 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: Tom Tellez Target entity description: Tom Tellez is a renowned American track and field coach best known for developing Olympic sprint and long jump champion Carl Lewis and refining modern sprinting technique.
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A.
George Pajon Jr.
George Pajon Jr. is an American guitarist, songwriter, and longtime collaborator with the Black Eyed Peas, known for co-writing several of their hit songs.
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B.
Javier Navarrete
Javier Navarrete is a Spanish film composer best known internationally for his haunting, Oscar-nominated score for Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film Pan’s Labyrinth.
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C.
Joe Hortiz
Joe Hortiz is an NFL executive and talent evaluator who became the general manager of the Los Angeles Chargers after a long tenure in the Baltimore Ravens’ front office.
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D.
Guillermo Ramírez
Guillermo Ramírez is a Guatemalan former professional footballer best known for scoring the extra-time winning goal in the 2005 MLS Cup final for the Los Angeles Galaxy.
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E.
Danny Escobedo
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- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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human ⓘ sprint coach ⓘ track and field coach ⓘ |
| coachOf |
Carl Lewis
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Olympic-level long jumpers ⓘ Olympic-level sprinters ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
long jump coaching
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sprint coaching ⓘ track and field ⓘ |
| givenName | Tom ⓘ |
| hasCoachedDiscipline |
100 metres
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200 metres ⓘ long jump ⓘ |
| hasWonAsCoach | Olympic gold medals through his athletes ⓘ |
| influenced |
long jump coaching methodology
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sprint coaching methodology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
developing Carl Lewis into an Olympic champion
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influence on sprinting biomechanics ⓘ modern sprinting technique principles ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Tom Tellez ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
coaching Olympic long jumpers
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coaching Olympic sprinters ⓘ developing Carl Lewis ⓘ refining modern sprinting technique ⓘ |
| occupation |
athletics coach
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track and field coach ⓘ |
| sport |
athletics
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track and field ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Tom Tellez Description of subject: Tom Tellez is a renowned American track and field coach best known for developing Olympic sprint and long jump champion Carl Lewis and refining modern sprinting technique.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.