Wendy Larry
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Wendy Larry is a highly successful American women's college basketball coach best known for leading Old Dominion University's program to national prominence over more than two decades.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wendy Larry canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2815010 — 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: Wendy Larry Context triple: [Old Dominion Monarchs women’s basketball team, formerHeadCoach, Wendy Larry]
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A.
Wendy Lawrence
Wendy Lawrence is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions as a mission specialist.
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B.
Laurie Laurence
Laurie Laurence is a central character in Louisa May Alcott's novel "Little Women," known as the charming, wealthy neighbor and close friend of the March sisters who later marries Amy March.
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C.
Dee Dee Warwick
Dee Dee Warwick was an American soul and R&B singer known for hits in the 1960s and 1970s and for being part of the musical Warwick–Houston family.
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D.
Nicky Parsons
Nicky Parsons is a former CIA logistics technician and ally of Jason Bourne in the Bourne film series, known for her insider knowledge of the agency’s covert operations.
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E.
Wendy Best
Wendy Best is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Best, though specific widely known public details about her are not established.
- 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: Wendy Larry Target entity description: Wendy Larry is a highly successful American women's college basketball coach best known for leading Old Dominion University's program to national prominence over more than two decades.
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A.
Wendy Lawrence
Wendy Lawrence is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions as a mission specialist.
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B.
Laurie Laurence
Laurie Laurence is a central character in Louisa May Alcott's novel "Little Women," known as the charming, wealthy neighbor and close friend of the March sisters who later marries Amy March.
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C.
Dee Dee Warwick
Dee Dee Warwick was an American soul and R&B singer known for hits in the 1960s and 1970s and for being part of the musical Warwick–Houston family.
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D.
Nicky Parsons
Nicky Parsons is a former CIA logistics technician and ally of Jason Bourne in the Bourne film series, known for her insider knowledge of the agency’s covert operations.
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E.
Wendy Best
Wendy Best is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Best, though specific widely known public details about her are not established.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball coach
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college basketball coach ⓘ human ⓘ women's basketball coach ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Colonial Athletic Association Coach of the Year
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Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Coach of the Year ⓘ |
| coachedTeam | Old Dominion Monarchs women's basketball ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Old Dominion University ⓘ |
| employer | Old Dominion University ⓘ |
| familyName | Larry ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
sports coaching
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women's college basketball ⓘ |
| genre | college basketball coaching ⓘ |
| givenName | Wendy ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Old Dominion Monarchs women's basketball (as head coach) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leading Old Dominion University women's basketball to national prominence
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longtime head coach of Old Dominion Monarchs women's basketball ⓘ |
| notableWork | building Old Dominion Monarchs women's basketball into a national power ⓘ |
| occupation |
basketball coach
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coach ⓘ |
| participantIn | NCAA Division I women's basketball ⓘ |
| positionHeld | head coach of Old Dominion Monarchs women's basketball team ⓘ |
| residence | Virginia ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| workLocation | Norfolk, Virginia ⓘ |
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: Wendy Larry Description of subject: Wendy Larry is a highly successful American women's college basketball coach best known for leading Old Dominion University's program to national prominence over more than two decades.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.