Weatherspoon
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Weatherspoon is a surname most prominently associated with former WNBA star and Hall of Fame basketball player Teresa Weatherspoon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Weatherspoon canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5858449 — 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: Weatherspoon Context triple: [Teresa Weatherspoon, familyName, Weatherspoon]
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A.
McNair
McNair is a Scottish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals, including American physicist and NASA astronaut Ronald McNair.
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B.
Candler
Candler is a surname most prominently associated with Asa Griggs Candler, the American businessman who founded The Coca-Cola Company and served as mayor of Atlanta.
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C.
Wesley Hall
Wesley Hall is a historic collegiate Gothic-style building that serves as a central landmark and academic facility at the University of Winnipeg.
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D.
Sturdivant Hall
Sturdivant Hall is a historic antebellum mansion and museum in Selma, Alabama, renowned for its Greek Revival architecture and preservation of 19th-century Southern history.
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E.
Wake Forest
Wake Forest is a town in North Carolina that forms part of the greater Research Triangle region anchored by Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill.
- 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: Weatherspoon Target entity description: Weatherspoon is a surname most prominently associated with former WNBA star and Hall of Fame basketball player Teresa Weatherspoon.
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A.
McNair
McNair is a Scottish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals, including American physicist and NASA astronaut Ronald McNair.
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B.
Candler
Candler is a surname most prominently associated with Asa Griggs Candler, the American businessman who founded The Coca-Cola Company and served as mayor of Atlanta.
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C.
Wesley Hall
Wesley Hall is a historic collegiate Gothic-style building that serves as a central landmark and academic facility at the University of Winnipeg.
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D.
Sturdivant Hall
Sturdivant Hall is a historic antebellum mansion and museum in Selma, Alabama, renowned for its Greek Revival architecture and preservation of 19th-century Southern history.
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E.
Wake Forest
Wake Forest is a town in North Carolina that forms part of the greater Research Triangle region anchored by Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Basketball Hall of Fame inductee
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basketball player ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Weatherspoon ⓘ |
| givenName | Teresa ⓘ |
| hallOfFame |
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
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Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| league | Women’s National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | New York Liberty ⓘ |
| notableFor |
career in the WNBA with the New York Liberty
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defensive skills in basketball ⓘ leadership as a point guard ⓘ |
| occupation |
basketball coach
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basketball player ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
guard
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point guard ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| usedBy | Teresa Weatherspoon ⓘ |
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: Weatherspoon Description of subject: Weatherspoon is a surname most prominently associated with former WNBA star and Hall of Fame basketball player Teresa Weatherspoon.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.