Steve Goodrich
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Steve Goodrich is a former American basketball player best known as a standout center for Princeton University in the late 1990s, where he helped lead the Tigers to national prominence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steve Goodrich canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T412479 — 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: Steve Goodrich Context triple: [Princeton Tigers men’s basketball, notablePlayer, Steve Goodrich]
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A.
Andrew McCollum
Andrew McCollum is an American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as one of the original co-founders of Facebook.
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B.
John Stephens
John Stephens is an author best known for writing the children's fantasy novel "The Emerald Atlas" and its sequels in the Books of Beginning series.
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C.
Jesse K. Dubois
Jesse K. Dubois was an Illinois politician and close ally of Abraham Lincoln who served as the state's auditor of public accounts in the mid-19th century.
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D.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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E.
Sam Wheeler
Sam Wheeler is the father of Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon.
- 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: Steve Goodrich Target entity description: Steve Goodrich is a former American basketball player best known as a standout center for Princeton University in the late 1990s, where he helped lead the Tigers to national prominence.
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A.
Andrew McCollum
Andrew McCollum is an American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as one of the original co-founders of Facebook.
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B.
John Stephens
John Stephens is an author best known for writing the children's fantasy novel "The Emerald Atlas" and its sequels in the Books of Beginning series.
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C.
Jesse K. Dubois
Jesse K. Dubois was an Illinois politician and close ally of Abraham Lincoln who served as the state's auditor of public accounts in the mid-19th century.
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D.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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E.
Sam Wheeler
Sam Wheeler is the father of Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American basketball player
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basketball player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| college | Princeton University ⓘ |
| collegeTeamRole | standout center ⓘ |
| competitionClass |
NCAA Division I
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surface form:
NCAA Division I men's basketball
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| countryOfCollegeTeam |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| education | Princeton University ⓘ |
| era | late 1990s ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| league | Ivy League ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Princeton Tigers men’s basketball
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surface form:
Princeton Tigers men's basketball team
|
| nationality |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| notableFor |
helping lead the Princeton Tigers to national prominence
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playing center for Princeton University in the late 1990s ⓘ |
| playedFor | Princeton Tigers ⓘ |
| position | center ⓘ |
| residenceCountryDuringCollegeCareer |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| status | retired basketball player ⓘ |
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: Steve Goodrich Description of subject: Steve Goodrich is a former American basketball player best known as a standout center for Princeton University in the late 1990s, where he helped lead the Tigers to national prominence.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.