Tim Latta
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Tim Latta is a soccer executive best known for serving as the general manager of the early Major League Soccer club Kansas City Wiz (now Sporting Kansas City).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tim Latta canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3317843 — 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)
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Target entity: Tim Latta Context triple: [Kansas City Wiz, generalManager, Tim Latta]
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A.
Brad Lander
Brad Lander is an American politician and progressive Democrat who serves as the New York City Comptroller and previously represented Brooklyn in the New York City Council.
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B.
Don Brautigam
Don Brautigam was an American illustrator best known for his striking, realistic cover art for horror and thriller novels, including works by Stephen King.
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C.
Craig Leipold
Craig Leipold is an American businessman and sports executive best known as the owner of the NHL’s Minnesota Wild and former owner of the Nashville Predators.
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D.
Dan Knechtges
Dan Knechtges is an American director and choreographer known for his work on numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals.
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E.
Michael Schultz
Michael Schultz is an American film and television director best known for his influential work on 1970s comedies and dramas, including the cult classic "Car Wash."
- 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: Tim Latta Target entity description: Tim Latta is a soccer executive best known for serving as the general manager of the early Major League Soccer club Kansas City Wiz (now Sporting Kansas City).
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A.
Brad Lander
Brad Lander is an American politician and progressive Democrat who serves as the New York City Comptroller and previously represented Brooklyn in the New York City Council.
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B.
Don Brautigam
Don Brautigam was an American illustrator best known for his striking, realistic cover art for horror and thriller novels, including works by Stephen King.
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C.
Craig Leipold
Craig Leipold is an American businessman and sports executive best known as the owner of the NHL’s Minnesota Wild and former owner of the Nashville Predators.
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D.
Dan Knechtges
Dan Knechtges is an American director and choreographer known for his work on numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals.
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E.
Michael Schultz
Michael Schultz is an American film and television director best known for his influential work on 1970s comedies and dramas, including the cult classic "Car Wash."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Soccer club
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Major League Soccer club ⓘ human ⓘ professional soccer league ⓘ |
| activeIn | 1990s ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| employer | Kansas City Wiz ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | association football administration ⓘ |
| formerName | Kansas City Wiz ⓘ |
| inception | 1996 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
executive role in early Major League Soccer
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serving as general manager of Kansas City Wiz ⓘ |
| laterNamed | Sporting Kansas City ⓘ |
| league | Major League Soccer ⓘ |
| location | Kansas City, Kansas ⓘ |
| notableWork | management of Kansas City Wiz in early MLS era ⓘ |
| occupation |
soccer executive
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sports executive ⓘ |
| positionHeld | general manager of Kansas City Wiz ⓘ |
| sport |
association football
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association football management ⓘ |
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: Tim Latta Description of subject: Tim Latta is a soccer executive best known for serving as the general manager of the early Major League Soccer club Kansas City Wiz (now Sporting Kansas City).
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.