Tim Foster (rower)
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Tim Foster is a British former rower best known as a member of the gold medal–winning coxless four at the 2000 Sydney Olympics alongside Steve Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent, and James Cracknell.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tim Foster (rower) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12768800 — 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: Tim Foster (rower) Context triple: [Bedford Modern School, hasNotableAlumni, Tim Foster (rower)]
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A.
Andrew Foster
Andrew Foster is a fictional character appearing in the Overdrive series.
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B.
Andrew Foster
Andrew "Rube" Foster was an influential early 20th-century American baseball player, manager, and executive widely regarded as the "Father of Black Baseball" for founding and leading the Negro National League.
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C.
Jim Foster
Jim Foster is an American sports executive best known as the creator and founding figure of the Arena Football League.
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D.
Craig Foster
Craig Foster is a South African filmmaker and naturalist best known for co-directing and starring in the Oscar-winning documentary "My Octopus Teacher."
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E.
Gary Foster
Gary Foster is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood movies such as the crime thriller "The Score."
- 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 Foster (rower) Target entity description: Tim Foster is a British former rower best known as a member of the gold medal–winning coxless four at the 2000 Sydney Olympics alongside Steve Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent, and James Cracknell.
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A.
Andrew Foster
Andrew Foster is a fictional character appearing in the Overdrive series.
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B.
Andrew Foster
Andrew "Rube" Foster was an influential early 20th-century American baseball player, manager, and executive widely regarded as the "Father of Black Baseball" for founding and leading the Negro National League.
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C.
Jim Foster
Jim Foster is an American sports executive best known as the creator and founding figure of the Arena Football League.
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D.
Craig Foster
Craig Foster is a South African filmmaker and naturalist best known for co-directing and starring in the Oscar-winning documentary "My Octopus Teacher."
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E.
Gary Foster
Gary Foster is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood movies such as the crime thriller "The Score."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic athlete
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human ⓘ rower ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Member of the Order of the British Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| club |
Leander Club
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oxford Brookes University Boat Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coachOf | Swiss national rowing team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competedIn |
1996 Summer Olympics
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
2000 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ World Rowing Championships NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Great Britain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| discipline | sweep rowing ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Monkton Combe School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oxford Brookes University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| event | men's coxless four ⓘ |
| hasWon | World Rowing Championships medals ⓘ |
| height | approximately 1.90 m ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
rowing with Steve Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent, and James Cracknell
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winning Olympic gold in coxless four at Sydney 2000 ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medalType | Olympic gold medal ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Great Britain national rowing team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Tim Foster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork | member of the Sydney 2000 coxless four ⓘ |
| occupation |
rower
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rowing coach ⓘ |
| participatingTeam | Great Britain men's coxless four NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| represented | Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | rowing ⓘ |
| teammate |
James Cracknell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Matthew Pinsent NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Redgrave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| won | gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
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 Foster (rower) Description of subject: Tim Foster is a British former rower best known as a member of the gold medal–winning coxless four at the 2000 Sydney Olympics alongside Steve Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent, and James Cracknell.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.