Tom Davis
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Tom Davis is an American college basketball coach best known for revitalizing the University of Iowa men's basketball program during his successful tenure in the 1980s and 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Davis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7149439 — 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 Davis Context triple: [Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball, notableCoach, Tom Davis]
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A.
Tom Davis
Tom Davis is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), a pioneering company in high-performance 3D graphics and computing.
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B.
Tom Davis
Tom Davis was an American comedy writer and performer best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and for co-creating the recurring "Coneheads" characters.
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C.
Bob Scott
Bob Scott was an Australian rules football field umpire best known for officiating the 1934 Victorian Football League Grand Final.
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D.
Tom Foster
Tom Foster was an activist involved in organizing the 1938 National Day of Mourning, a landmark Indigenous protest highlighting injustices against Aboriginal Australians.
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E.
Thomas J. Bliley Jr.
Thomas J. Bliley Jr. is an American Republican politician and former U.S. Representative from Virginia who chaired the House Commerce Committee and played a key role in major financial deregulation legislation.
- 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 Davis Target entity description: Tom Davis is an American college basketball coach best known for revitalizing the University of Iowa men's basketball program during his successful tenure in the 1980s and 1990s.
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A.
Tom Davis
Tom Davis is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), a pioneering company in high-performance 3D graphics and computing.
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B.
Tom Davis
Tom Davis was an American comedy writer and performer best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and for co-creating the recurring "Coneheads" characters.
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C.
Bob Scott
Bob Scott was an Australian rules football field umpire best known for officiating the 1934 Victorian Football League Grand Final.
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D.
Tom Foster
Tom Foster was an activist involved in organizing the 1938 National Day of Mourning, a landmark Indigenous protest highlighting injustices against Aboriginal Australians.
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E.
Thomas J. Bliley Jr.
Thomas J. Bliley Jr. is an American Republican politician and former U.S. Representative from Virginia who chaired the House Commerce Committee and played a key role in major financial deregulation legislation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball coach
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college basketball coach ⓘ human ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | University of Iowa ⓘ |
| familyName | Davis ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | men’s college basketball ⓘ |
| genre | college athletics ⓘ |
| givenName | Tom ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
led Iowa to multiple NCAA Tournament appearances
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restored national prominence to Iowa men’s basketball in the 1980s ⓘ |
| notableFor | revitalizing the University of Iowa men’s basketball program ⓘ |
| notableRole | architect of up-tempo, pressing style at Iowa ⓘ |
| notableWork | successful tenure as Iowa Hawkeyes men’s basketball head coach in the 1980s and 1990s ⓘ |
| occupation |
basketball coach
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college basketball coach ⓘ |
| partOf | NCAA Division I men’s basketball coaching community ⓘ |
| positionHeld | head coach of the University of Iowa men’s basketball team ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| sportDisciplineCoached | men’s basketball ⓘ |
| teamCoached |
Iowa Hawkeyes men’s basketball
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linked to:
Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball
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| timePeriod |
1980s
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1990s ⓘ |
| workLocation | Iowa City, Iowa ⓘ |
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: Tom Davis Description of subject: Tom Davis is an American college basketball coach best known for revitalizing the University of Iowa men's basketball program during his successful tenure in the 1980s and 1990s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.