Mike Davis
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Mike Davis is an American college basketball coach best known for succeeding Bob Knight at Indiana University and leading the Hoosiers to the 2002 NCAA championship game.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mike Davis canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6003011 — 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: Mike Davis Context triple: [Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball, formerHeadCoach, Mike Davis]
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Michael Baca
Michael Baca is an American presidential elector known for his role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Colorado Department of State v. Baca, which addressed whether states can penalize or replace “faithless electors” in the Electoral College.
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B.
Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero is an American abstract sculptor renowned for his monumental, industrial steel constructions installed in prominent outdoor sculpture parks and public spaces worldwide.
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C.
Fred Wolf
Fred Wolf is an American comedy writer, director, and producer known for his work on films like "Grown Ups 2" and for his contributions to "Saturday Night Live."
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D.
Michael Davis
Michael Davis is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Bomis, the web portal company that played a key role in the early development of Wikipedia.
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E.
Michael Davis
Michael Davis is an American comic book artist, writer, and producer best known as one of the founding members of the influential, Black-owned comics company Milestone Media.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Mike Davis Target entity description: Mike Davis is an American college basketball coach best known for succeeding Bob Knight at Indiana University and leading the Hoosiers to the 2002 NCAA championship game.
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A.
Michael Baca
Michael Baca is an American presidential elector known for his role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Colorado Department of State v. Baca, which addressed whether states can penalize or replace “faithless electors” in the Electoral College.
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B.
Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero is an American abstract sculptor renowned for his monumental, industrial steel constructions installed in prominent outdoor sculpture parks and public spaces worldwide.
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C.
Fred Wolf
Fred Wolf is an American comedy writer, director, and producer known for his work on films like "Grown Ups 2" and for his contributions to "Saturday Night Live."
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D.
Michael Davis
Michael Davis is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Bomis, the web portal company that played a key role in the early development of Wikipedia.
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E.
Michael Davis
Michael Davis is an American comic book artist, writer, and producer best known as one of the founding members of the influential, Black-owned comics company Milestone Media.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball coach
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college basketball coach ⓘ human ⓘ |
| basedIn | Bloomington, Indiana ⓘ |
| coachedTeamToEvent | 2002 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game ⓘ |
| coachingLevel | college ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Indiana University ⓘ |
| familyName | Davis ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
basketball strategy
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sports coaching ⓘ |
| genre | men's college basketball coaching ⓘ |
| givenName | Mike ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| leagueCoachedIn | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball ⓘ |
| name | Mike Davis ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | NCAA Tournament Final Four appearance with Indiana in 2002 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leading Indiana Hoosiers to the 2002 NCAA championship game
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succeeding Bob Knight as head coach at Indiana University ⓘ |
| occupation | basketball coach ⓘ |
| positionHeld | head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team ⓘ |
| replaced | Bob Knight ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| sportDisciplineCoached | men's basketball ⓘ |
| typeOfCoach | head coach ⓘ |
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: Mike Davis Description of subject: Mike Davis is an American college basketball coach best known for succeeding Bob Knight at Indiana University and leading the Hoosiers to the 2002 NCAA championship game.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.