Bob MacKinnon
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Bob MacKinnon was an American basketball coach known for his work in the ABA and NBA, including leading the Spirits of St. Louis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bob MacKinnon canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T919232 — 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: Bob MacKinnon Context triple: [Spirits of St. Louis, coach, Bob MacKinnon]
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A.
John Mathieson
John Mathieson is a British cinematographer known for his visually striking work on major films, particularly in collaboration with directors like Ridley Scott and Guy Ritchie.
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B.
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
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C.
Ewen MacIntosh
Ewen MacIntosh is a British actor and comedian best known for playing the deadpan accountant Keith Bishop in the original UK version of "The Office."
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D.
David Farquharson
David Farquharson was an architect known for designing South Hall.
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E.
John MacDougall
John MacDougall was a Scottish Labour politician who served as a Member of Parliament representing a constituency including Glenrothes.
- 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: Bob MacKinnon Target entity description: Bob MacKinnon was an American basketball coach known for his work in the ABA and NBA, including leading the Spirits of St. Louis.
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A.
John Mathieson
John Mathieson is a British cinematographer known for his visually striking work on major films, particularly in collaboration with directors like Ridley Scott and Guy Ritchie.
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B.
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
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C.
Ewen MacIntosh
Ewen MacIntosh is a British actor and comedian best known for playing the deadpan accountant Keith Bishop in the original UK version of "The Office."
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D.
David Farquharson
David Farquharson was an architect known for designing South Hall.
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E.
John MacDougall
John MacDougall was a Scottish Labour politician who served as a Member of Parliament representing a constituency including Glenrothes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball coach
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| coachedInLeague |
American Basketball Association
ⓘ
National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Spirits of St. Louis ⓘ |
| familyName | MacKinnon ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | professional basketball coaching ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Bob ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| leagueCoached |
ABA
ⓘ
National Basketball Association ⓘ
surface form:
NBA
|
| name | Bob MacKinnon self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | coaching the Spirits of St. Louis in the ABA ⓘ |
| occupation |
basketball coach
ⓘ
basketball player ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | guard ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Bob MacKinnon Description of subject: Bob MacKinnon was an American basketball coach known for his work in the ABA and NBA, including leading the Spirits of St. Louis.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.