Clif Smart
E442896
Clif Smart is an American academic administrator and attorney best known for serving as the president of Missouri State University.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clif Smart canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4401345 — 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: Clif Smart Context triple: [Missouri State University, president, Clif Smart]
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A.
Mike Riley
Mike Riley is an American football coach best known for his long tenure leading the Oregon State Beavers and multiple stints as a head coach in both college football and the NFL.
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B.
Tony Strickland
Tony Strickland is an American Republican politician from California who has served in the state legislature and run for several statewide and congressional offices.
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C.
Tommy Caldwell
Tommy Caldwell is an American rock climber renowned for his groundbreaking big-wall free climbs, including the historic first free ascent of Yosemite’s Dawn Wall.
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D.
Dale Hunter
Dale Hunter is a former Canadian NHL center known for his gritty, physical play and leadership, most notably with the Washington Capitals.
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E.
Kenny Dillingham
Kenny Dillingham is an American college football coach known for his offensive expertise and for serving as the head coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils.
- 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: Clif Smart Target entity description: Clif Smart is an American academic administrator and attorney best known for serving as the president of Missouri State University.
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A.
Mike Riley
Mike Riley is an American football coach best known for his long tenure leading the Oregon State Beavers and multiple stints as a head coach in both college football and the NFL.
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B.
Tony Strickland
Tony Strickland is an American Republican politician from California who has served in the state legislature and run for several statewide and congressional offices.
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C.
Tommy Caldwell
Tommy Caldwell is an American rock climber renowned for his groundbreaking big-wall free climbs, including the historic first free ascent of Yosemite’s Dawn Wall.
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D.
Dale Hunter
Dale Hunter is a former Canadian NHL center known for his gritty, physical play and leadership, most notably with the Washington Capitals.
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E.
Kenny Dillingham
Kenny Dillingham is an American college football coach known for his offensive expertise and for serving as the head coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic administrator
ⓘ
attorney ⓘ human ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Missouri State University Foundation
ⓘ
Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Tulane University
ⓘ
University of Arkansas ⓘ |
| employer |
Missouri State University
ⓘ
The Strong Law Firm ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | law ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | higher education administration ⓘ |
| hasAcademicTitle | Juris Doctor ⓘ |
| hasChild | son ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Missouri Bar
ⓘ
linked to:
Missouri state bar
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| notableFor | presidency of Missouri State University ⓘ |
| notableWork |
advocacy for public higher education funding in Missouri
ⓘ
expansion of Missouri State University campus facilities ⓘ leadership of Missouri State University enrollment growth ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
university president ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
President of Missouri State University
ⓘ
corporate attorney ⓘ |
| residence | Springfield, Missouri ⓘ |
| spouse | Gail Smart ⓘ |
| workLocation | Springfield, Missouri ⓘ |
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: Clif Smart Description of subject: Clif Smart is an American academic administrator and attorney best known for serving as the president of Missouri State University.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.