Mike Woodson
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Mike Woodson is an American basketball coach and former NBA player best known for leading the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball program and previously coaching multiple NBA teams.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mike Woodson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6003007 — 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)
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Target entity: Mike Woodson Context triple: [Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball, headCoach, Mike Woodson]
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A.
Chris Finch
Chris Finch is an American professional basketball coach best known for leading the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves.
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B.
Bryce Drew
Bryce Drew is an American former NBA player and college basketball coach best known for his memorable game-winning shot for Valparaiso in the 1998 NCAA Tournament and subsequent coaching career.
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C.
Terry Stotts
Terry Stotts is an American basketball coach best known for his long tenure as head coach of the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers, where he led the team to multiple playoff appearances.
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D.
Rick Adelman
Rick Adelman is an American former NBA head coach best known for leading the Portland Trail Blazers to multiple deep playoff runs in the early 1990s and later guiding several other franchises with his innovative offensive systems.
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E.
George Karl
George Karl is an American former NBA head coach best known for leading multiple franchises, including the Seattle SuperSonics, to sustained regular-season success and deep playoff runs.
- 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: Mike Woodson Target entity description: Mike Woodson is an American basketball coach and former NBA player best known for leading the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball program and previously coaching multiple NBA teams.
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A.
Chris Finch
Chris Finch is an American professional basketball coach best known for leading the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves.
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B.
Bryce Drew
Bryce Drew is an American former NBA player and college basketball coach best known for his memorable game-winning shot for Valparaiso in the 1998 NCAA Tournament and subsequent coaching career.
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C.
Terry Stotts
Terry Stotts is an American basketball coach best known for his long tenure as head coach of the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers, where he led the team to multiple playoff appearances.
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D.
Rick Adelman
Rick Adelman is an American former NBA head coach best known for leading the Portland Trail Blazers to multiple deep playoff runs in the early 1990s and later guiding several other franchises with his innovative offensive systems.
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E.
George Karl
George Karl is an American former NBA head coach best known for leading multiple franchises, including the Seattle SuperSonics, to sustained regular-season success and deep playoff runs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NBA player
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basketball coach ⓘ college basketball coach ⓘ former basketball player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| almaMater | Indiana University Bloomington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coachedTeam |
Atlanta Hawks
NERFINISHED
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Detroit Pistons (assistant coach) NERFINISHED ⓘ Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team NERFINISHED ⓘ Indiana Pacers (assistant coach) NERFINISHED ⓘ Los Angeles Clippers (assistant coach) NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Knicks NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Knicks (assistant coach) ⓘ Philadelphia 76ers (assistant coach) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | Indiana University Bloomington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-03-24 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | New York Knicks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| draftLeague |
National Basketball Association
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surface form:
NBA
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| draftPickNumber | 12 ⓘ |
| draftRound | 1 ⓘ |
| draftYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| familyName | Woodson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Michael Dean Woodson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| headCoachEnd |
Atlanta Hawks, 2010
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New York Knicks, 2014 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headCoachStart |
Atlanta Hawks, 2004
NERFINISHED
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Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball, 2021 ⓘ New York Knicks, 2012 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leaguePlayedIn | National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
led Atlanta Hawks to multiple consecutive playoff appearances
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led New York Knicks to 2012–13 Atlantic Division title ⓘ returned to Indiana University as head coach of men's basketball program ⓘ |
| occupation |
basketball coach
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basketball player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Indianapolis, Indiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Houston Rockets
NERFINISHED
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Kansas City Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ Los Angeles Clippers NERFINISHED ⓘ New Jersey Nets NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Knicks NERFINISHED ⓘ Sacramento Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
shooting guard
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small forward ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| wearsJerseyNumber | 44 ⓘ |
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: Mike Woodson Description of subject: Mike Woodson is an American basketball coach and former NBA player best known for leading the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball program and previously coaching multiple NBA teams.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.