coach Jim White
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Coach Jim White is the real-life high school cross-country coach whose inspirational leadership of a predominantly Latino team in McFarland, California, is dramatized in the film "McFarland, USA."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Coach Jim White | 1 |
| Jim White (real-life coach) | 1 |
| coach Jim White canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6150580 — 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: coach Jim White Context triple: [McFarland, USA, follows, coach Jim White]
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A.
Whit Babcock
Whit Babcock is an American college athletics administrator who serves as the athletic director at Virginia Tech, overseeing the university’s sports programs including baseball.
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B.
Danny Wilson
Danny Wilson is the brother of former child actress and writer Mara Wilson.
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C.
David Rawlins
David Rawlins is a film editor best known for his work on movies such as the thriller "The Osterman Weekend."
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D.
Dave Hakstol
Dave Hakstol is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach known for his NHL head coaching tenures with the Philadelphia Flyers and the expansion Seattle Kraken, following a successful college coaching career at the University of North Dakota.
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E.
Ron Sutter
Ron Sutter is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played over 1,000 NHL games and later worked in scouting and player development.
- 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: coach Jim White Target entity description: Coach Jim White is the real-life high school cross-country coach whose inspirational leadership of a predominantly Latino team in McFarland, California, is dramatized in the film "McFarland, USA."
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A.
Whit Babcock
Whit Babcock is an American college athletics administrator who serves as the athletic director at Virginia Tech, overseeing the university’s sports programs including baseball.
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B.
Danny Wilson
Danny Wilson is the brother of former child actress and writer Mara Wilson.
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C.
David Rawlins
David Rawlins is a film editor best known for his work on movies such as the thriller "The Osterman Weekend."
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D.
Dave Hakstol
Dave Hakstol is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach known for his NHL head coaching tenures with the Philadelphia Flyers and the expansion Seattle Kraken, following a successful college coaching career at the University of North Dakota.
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E.
Ron Sutter
Ron Sutter is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played over 1,000 NHL games and later worked in scouting and player development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| basedIn | McFarland, California ⓘ |
| coachingLevel | high school ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educationRole | physical education instructor ⓘ |
| employer | McFarland High School ⓘ |
| ethnicFocusOfTeam | predominantly Latino runners ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
high school athletics
ⓘ
secondary education ⓘ |
| genreOfNotability |
inspirational education
ⓘ
sports coaching ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| influenced | development of distance running culture in McFarland ⓘ |
| inspiredWork |
film "McFarland, USA"
ⓘ
linked to:
McFarland, USA
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| knownFor |
inspirational leadership
ⓘ
mentoring student-athletes from farmworker families ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mediumDepictingLife | feature film ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | leading McFarland High School to multiple state cross-country titles ⓘ |
| notableFor | developing a successful high school cross-country program in McFarland, California ⓘ |
| notableWork | coaching McFarland High School cross-country team ⓘ |
| occupation |
cross-country coach
ⓘ
high school teacher ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Kevin Costner ⓘ |
| residence | McFarland, California ⓘ |
| sportCoached | cross-country running ⓘ |
| studentDemographicServed | children of agricultural workers ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
"McFarland, USA" (2015 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
McFarland, USA
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| teamCoached |
McFarland High School boys cross-country team
ⓘ
linked to:
McFarland High School
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| workLocation |
Kern County, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Kern County
|
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: coach Jim White Description of subject: Coach Jim White is the real-life high school cross-country coach whose inspirational leadership of a predominantly Latino team in McFarland, California, is dramatized in the film "McFarland, USA."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: coach Jim White