Sam Dekker
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Sam Dekker is an American professional basketball player best known for his standout college career with the Wisconsin Badgers and subsequent play in the NBA and overseas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sam Dekker canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5994562 — 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: Sam Dekker Context triple: [Bo Ryan, notableStudent, Sam Dekker]
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A.
Frank Kaminsky
Frank Kaminsky is an American professional basketball player best known for his standout collegiate career at the University of Wisconsin and subsequent play in the NBA as a skilled, floor-stretching big man.
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B.
Terrence Ross
Terrence Ross is an American former professional basketball player best known for his high-flying scoring ability in the NBA, primarily with the Toronto Raptors and Orlando Magic.
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C.
Jerami Grant
Jerami Grant is an American professional basketball player in the NBA known for his versatile forward play, scoring ability, and strong defense.
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D.
Kelan Martin
Kelan Martin is an American professional basketball player best known for his standout collegiate career as a high-scoring forward at Butler University and subsequent stints in the NBA and overseas.
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E.
Jameer Nelson
Jameer Nelson is a former American NBA point guard best known for his standout collegiate career at Saint Joseph's University and his long tenure with the Orlando Magic.
- 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: Sam Dekker Target entity description: Sam Dekker is an American professional basketball player best known for his standout college career with the Wisconsin Badgers and subsequent play in the NBA and overseas.
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A.
Frank Kaminsky
Frank Kaminsky is an American professional basketball player best known for his standout collegiate career at the University of Wisconsin and subsequent play in the NBA as a skilled, floor-stretching big man.
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B.
Terrence Ross
Terrence Ross is an American former professional basketball player best known for his high-flying scoring ability in the NBA, primarily with the Toronto Raptors and Orlando Magic.
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C.
Jerami Grant
Jerami Grant is an American professional basketball player in the NBA known for his versatile forward play, scoring ability, and strong defense.
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D.
Kelan Martin
Kelan Martin is an American professional basketball player best known for his standout collegiate career as a high-scoring forward at Butler University and subsequent stints in the NBA and overseas.
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E.
Jameer Nelson
Jameer Nelson is a former American NBA point guard best known for his standout collegiate career at Saint Joseph's University and his long tenure with the Orlando Magic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball player
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | University of Wisconsin–Madison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collegeTeamNumber | 15 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1994-05-06 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Houston Rockets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| draftLeague |
National Basketball Association
ⓘ
surface form:
NBA
|
| draftPickNumber | 18 ⓘ |
| draftRound | 1 ⓘ |
| draftYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| familyName | Dekker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Samuel Thomas Dekker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| handedness | right-handed ⓘ |
| height | 2.06 m ⓘ |
| heightInFeetInches | 6 ft 8 in ⓘ |
| highSchoolAttended | Sheboygan Lutheran High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber |
15
ⓘ
7 ⓘ 8 ⓘ |
| leagueParticipatedIn | NCAA Division I men's basketball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Bahçeşehir Koleji S.K.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cleveland Cavaliers NERFINISHED ⓘ Houston Rockets NERFINISHED ⓘ Lokomotiv Kuban NERFINISHED ⓘ London Lions NERFINISHED ⓘ Los Angeles Clippers NERFINISHED ⓘ Türk Telekom NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington Wizards NERFINISHED ⓘ Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | leading Wisconsin to the 2015 NCAA championship game ⓘ |
| occupation | professional basketball player ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
2014 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
ⓘ
2015 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsInLeague |
Basketball Champions League
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
EuroCup Basketball NERFINISHED ⓘ NBA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
power forward
ⓘ
small forward ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| spouse | Olivia Harlan Dekker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateOfHighSchool | Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| twitterUsername | @dekker ⓘ |
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: Sam Dekker Description of subject: Sam Dekker is an American professional basketball player best known for his standout college career with the Wisconsin Badgers and subsequent play in the NBA and overseas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.