Digger Phelps
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Digger Phelps is a former American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of Notre Dame to national prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, including multiple upsets of top-ranked teams.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Digger Phelps canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6003063 — 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: Digger Phelps Context triple: [Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball, notableCoach, Digger Phelps]
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Bucky Harris
Bucky Harris was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball manager and second baseman best known for leading the Washington Senators to the 1924 World Series championship as their young player-manager.
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Fielder Jones
Fielder Jones was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball manager and outfielder best known for leading the Chicago White Sox to a championship in the dead-ball era.
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Allen Gamble
Allen Gamble is a mild-mannered, desk-bound NYPD detective portrayed by Will Ferrell in the action-comedy film "The Other Guys."
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Harvey Dunn
Harvey Dunn was an American painter and illustrator renowned for his powerful depictions of frontier life and war, and as a prominent teacher who helped shape early 20th-century American illustration.
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Hank Booth
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- 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)
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Target entity: Digger Phelps Target entity description: Digger Phelps is a former American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of Notre Dame to national prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, including multiple upsets of top-ranked teams.
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A.
Bucky Harris
Bucky Harris was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball manager and second baseman best known for leading the Washington Senators to the 1924 World Series championship as their young player-manager.
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B.
Fielder Jones
Fielder Jones was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball manager and outfielder best known for leading the Chicago White Sox to a championship in the dead-ball era.
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C.
Allen Gamble
Allen Gamble is a mild-mannered, desk-bound NYPD detective portrayed by Will Ferrell in the action-comedy film "The Other Guys."
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D.
Harvey Dunn
Harvey Dunn was an American painter and illustrator renowned for his powerful depictions of frontier life and war, and as a prominent teacher who helped shape early 20th-century American illustration.
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E.
Hank Booth
Hank Booth is a recurring character on the television series "Bones," known as Seeley Booth's grandfather and a former Army veteran.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball coach
ⓘ
human ⓘ television analyst ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Rider College
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linked to:
Rider University
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| basedIn | Notre Dame, Indiana ⓘ |
| birthName | Richard F. Phelps ⓘ |
| coachedTeam |
Fordham Rams men's basketball
ⓘ
linked to:
Fordham Rams
Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball ⓘ Pennsylvania high school basketball teams ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Rider College
ⓘ
linked to:
Rider University
|
| employer |
ESPN
ⓘ
University of Notre Dame ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
college basketball coaching
ⓘ
sports broadcasting ⓘ |
| genre |
college basketball
ⓘ
sports analysis ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasHonor | Respected status as a prominent Notre Dame basketball figure ⓘ |
| hasPartIn |
NCAA Division I men's basketball
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linked to:
NCAA Division I
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| knownFor |
Colorful on-air personality as a college basketball analyst
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Upsetting top-ranked teams as Notre Dame head coach ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
ESPN college basketball broadcasting team
ⓘ
linked to:
ESPN
|
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nickname | Digger ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
Became one of the most recognizable faces in college basketball media
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Coached Notre Dame to a victory over UCLA ending its 88-game winning streak ⓘ Coached multiple upsets of top-ranked teams while at Notre Dame ⓘ Guided Notre Dame to numerous NCAA tournament appearances ⓘ Helped establish Notre Dame as a national basketball power ⓘ Led Notre Dame to national prominence in men's college basketball in the 1970s and 1980s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball program
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linked to:
Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball
|
| occupation |
college basketball coach
ⓘ
sports commentator ⓘ |
| position | head coach ⓘ |
| residence | South Bend, Indiana ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ 1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ |
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: Digger Phelps Description of subject: Digger Phelps is a former American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of Notre Dame to national prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, including multiple upsets of top-ranked teams.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.