Keno Davis
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Keno Davis is an American college basketball coach best known for his head coaching stints at Drake University, Providence College, and Central Michigan University, and for winning multiple national coach of the year awards early in his career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Keno Davis canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7704053 — 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: Keno Davis Context triple: [Providence Friars men's basketball, notableCoach, Keno Davis]
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A.
Clifton McNeely
Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
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B.
Dennis Byrd
Dennis Byrd was an American defensive lineman for the New York Jets whose promising NFL career was tragically cut short by a paralyzing on-field injury, after which he became a symbol of courage and inspiration.
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C.
Darrell Porter
Darrell Porter was an American Major League Baseball catcher best known for his standout postseason performances in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including key roles with the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals.
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D.
Ben Davis
Ben Davis is a British cinematographer known for his work on major films including several Marvel Cinematic Universe entries.
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Darrell Johnson
Darrell Johnson was an American Major League Baseball manager and former catcher best known for leading the Boston Red Sox to the 1975 American League pennant.
- 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: Keno Davis Target entity description: Keno Davis is an American college basketball coach best known for his head coaching stints at Drake University, Providence College, and Central Michigan University, and for winning multiple national coach of the year awards early in his career.
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A.
Clifton McNeely
Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
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B.
Dennis Byrd
Dennis Byrd was an American defensive lineman for the New York Jets whose promising NFL career was tragically cut short by a paralyzing on-field injury, after which he became a symbol of courage and inspiration.
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C.
Darrell Porter
Darrell Porter was an American Major League Baseball catcher best known for his standout postseason performances in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including key roles with the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals.
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D.
Ben Davis
Ben Davis is a British cinematographer known for his work on major films including several Marvel Cinematic Universe entries.
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E.
Darrell Johnson
Darrell Johnson was an American Major League Baseball manager and former catcher best known for leading the Boston Red Sox to the 1975 American League pennant.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball coach
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college basketball coach ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | national college basketball coach of the year award ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Central Michigan University
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Drake University ⓘ Providence College ⓘ |
| familyName | Davis ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
basketball coaching
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college athletics ⓘ |
| genre | men's college basketball coaching ⓘ |
| givenName | Keno ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Keno Davis ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
led Drake University men's basketball to national recognition
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won multiple national coach of the year awards early in his career ⓘ |
| notableFor |
head coach at Central Michigan University
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head coach at Drake University ⓘ head coach at Providence College ⓘ |
| occupation |
basketball coach
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college basketball coach ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
head coach of Central Michigan Chippewas men's basketball team
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head coach of Drake Bulldogs men's basketball team ⓘ head coach of Providence Friars men's basketball team ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
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: Keno Davis Description of subject: Keno Davis is an American college basketball coach best known for his head coaching stints at Drake University, Providence College, and Central Michigan University, and for winning multiple national coach of the year awards early in his career.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.