Mike Schafer
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Mike Schafer is a longtime head coach of the Cornell Big Red men's ice hockey team, known for leading the program to sustained success and multiple NCAA tournament appearances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mike Schafer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1359853 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Mike Schafer Context triple: [Cornell Big Red men's ice hockey, hasNotableAlumni, Mike Schafer]
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A.
Mike Gunton
Mike Gunton is a British television producer best known for his work on landmark BBC natural history documentaries.
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B.
Mike Montemerlo
Mike Montemerlo is a roboticist and computer scientist known for his work on autonomous vehicles as a key member of Stanford's pioneering self-driving car efforts.
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C.
Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
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D.
Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner
Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner is an Icelandic-Norwegian software developer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of the Opera web browser company and later founder of the Vivaldi browser.
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E.
Mike Konopacki
Mike Konopacki is an American political cartoonist known for his labor- and social-justice-focused comics and graphic works.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mike Schafer Target entity description: Mike Schafer is a longtime head coach of the Cornell Big Red men's ice hockey team, known for leading the program to sustained success and multiple NCAA tournament appearances.
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A.
Mike Gunton
Mike Gunton is a British television producer best known for his work on landmark BBC natural history documentaries.
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B.
Mike Montemerlo
Mike Montemerlo is a roboticist and computer scientist known for his work on autonomous vehicles as a key member of Stanford's pioneering self-driving car efforts.
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C.
Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
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D.
Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner
Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner is an Icelandic-Norwegian software developer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of the Opera web browser company and later founder of the Vivaldi browser.
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E.
Mike Konopacki
Mike Konopacki is an American political cartoonist known for his labor- and social-justice-focused comics and graphic works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ice hockey coach
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person ⓘ |
| almaMater | Cornell University ⓘ |
| associatedWithProgram |
Cornell Big Red men's ice hockey
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surface form:
Cornell Big Red men's ice hockey tradition
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| captainedTeam | Cornell Big Red men's ice hockey ⓘ |
| coachingLevel | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| collegeTeamPlayedFor | Cornell Big Red men's ice hockey ⓘ |
| conferenceChampionshipsWonAsCoach |
ECAC Hockey regular-season titles
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ECAC Hockey tournament titles ⓘ |
| countryOfCoachingCareer |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| employer | Cornell University ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasCoachedInTournament |
NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship
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surface form:
NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Championship
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| knownFor |
building a strong defensive, physical style of play
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longtime head coach of Cornell Big Red men's ice hockey ⓘ sustained program success at Cornell ⓘ |
| leagueCoachedIn | ECAC Hockey ⓘ |
| ledTeamTo | NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament appearances ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableFor | multiple NCAA tournament appearances with Cornell ⓘ |
| occupation | ice hockey coach ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | defenceman ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| teamCoached | Cornell Big Red men's ice hockey ⓘ |
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 Schafer Description of subject: Mike Schafer is a longtime head coach of the Cornell Big Red men's ice hockey team, known for leading the program to sustained success and multiple NCAA tournament appearances.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.