Bob Huggins

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Bob Huggins is a highly successful American college basketball coach best known for his long tenures and numerous NCAA Tournament appearances with the University of Cincinnati and West Virginia University.

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Label	Occurrences
Bob Huggins canonical	3

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4766116 — 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 Huggins
Context triple: [Newcomerstown, Ohio, hasNotableResident, Bob Huggins]

A. Gregg Marshall
Gregg Marshall is an American college basketball coach best known for his long, successful tenure at Wichita State University, where he built the Shockers into a national contender.
B. Kelvin Sampson
Kelvin Sampson is an American college basketball coach best known for leading successful programs at schools like Oklahoma and the University of Houston.
C. Ben Howland
Ben Howland is an American college basketball coach best known for leading UCLA to three consecutive Final Four appearances in the mid-2000s.
D. Jerry Tarkanian
Jerry Tarkanian was a Hall of Fame college basketball coach best known for turning UNLV into a national powerhouse and winning the 1990 NCAA championship.
E. Bill Musselman
Bill Musselman was an American basketball coach known for his intense, defense-oriented style and successful stints in college basketball, the ABA, and the NBA.
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 Huggins
Target entity description: Bob Huggins is a highly successful American college basketball coach best known for his long tenures and numerous NCAA Tournament appearances with the University of Cincinnati and West Virginia University.

A. Gregg Marshall
Gregg Marshall is an American college basketball coach best known for his long, successful tenure at Wichita State University, where he built the Shockers into a national contender.
B. Kelvin Sampson
Kelvin Sampson is an American college basketball coach best known for leading successful programs at schools like Oklahoma and the University of Houston.
C. Ben Howland
Ben Howland is an American college basketball coach best known for leading UCLA to three consecutive Final Four appearances in the mid-2000s.
D. Jerry Tarkanian
Jerry Tarkanian was a Hall of Fame college basketball coach best known for turning UNLV into a national powerhouse and winning the 1990 NCAA championship.
E. Bill Musselman
Bill Musselman was an American basketball coach known for his intense, defense-oriented style and successful stints in college basketball, the ABA, and the NBA.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	basketball coach ⓘ college basketball coach ⓘ human ⓘ
coached	Da'Sean Butler ⓘ Kenyon Martin ⓘ Nick Van Exel ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
educatedAt	West Virginia University ⓘ
employer	Kansas State University ⓘ University of Akron ⓘ University of Cincinnati ⓘ Walsh University ⓘ West Virginia University ⓘ
familyName	Huggins ⓘ
fieldOfWork	college basketball coaching ⓘ
genre	men's college basketball ⓘ
givenName	Bob ⓘ
hasPartIn	NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament ⓘ linked to: NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament
hasRole	defensive-minded coach ⓘ
hasWon	conference championships in college basketball ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
memberOfSportsTeam	Akron Zips men's basketball ⓘ linked to: University of Akron men's basketball team Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball ⓘ linked to: Cincinnati Bearcats Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball ⓘ Walsh Cavaliers men's basketball ⓘ West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball ⓘ
name	Bob Huggins ⓘ
notableAchievement	coaching West Virginia to the 2010 Final Four ⓘ multiple NCAA Elite Eight appearances ⓘ multiple NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearances ⓘ over 800 career wins as a college head coach ⓘ
notableFor	long coaching tenure at University of Cincinnati ⓘ long coaching tenure at West Virginia University ⓘ numerous NCAA Tournament appearances ⓘ
occupation	basketball coach ⓘ
participantIn	Big 12 Conference men's basketball ⓘ linked to: Big 12 Conference Big East Conference men's basketball ⓘ linked to: Big East Conference Conference USA men's basketball ⓘ linked to: Conference USA men's basketball competition Mid-American Conference men's basketball ⓘ linked to: Mid-American Conference NAIA men's basketball ⓘ linked to: NAIA Men’s Basketball National Championship
positionHeld	head coach of Akron Zips men's basketball ⓘ head coach of Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball ⓘ head coach of Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball ⓘ head coach of Walsh Cavaliers men's basketball ⓘ head coach of West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
sport	basketball ⓘ
workLocation	Cincinnati, Ohio ⓘ linked to: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Morgantown, West Virginia ⓘ linked to: Morgantown, West Virginia, United States