Larry Cannon
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Larry Cannon is a former American professional basketball player who played as a guard in the ABA and NBA during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larry Cannon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6278387 — 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: Larry Cannon Context triple: [Cannon, hasNotableBearer, Larry Cannon]
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A.
Kenneth Ray Rogers
Kenneth Ray Rogers, better known as Kenny Rogers, was a celebrated American country music singer, songwriter, and actor renowned for hits like "The Gambler" and "Lady."
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B.
John Klute
John Klute is the title character of the 1971 neo-noir thriller film "Klute," a private detective whose investigation entangles him with a call girl played by Jane Fonda.
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C.
Ian Dallas
Ian Dallas is a video game designer and creative director best known as the lead creator behind the narrative-driven game What Remains of Edith Finch.
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D.
Don Laws
Don Laws was a prominent American figure skating coach and former competitive skater, best known for mentoring elite athletes and contributing significantly to the sport’s development.
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E.
Larry Blanford
Larry Blanford is a professional cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as the romantic comedy "Think Like a Man."
- 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: Larry Cannon Target entity description: Larry Cannon is a former American professional basketball player who played as a guard in the ABA and NBA during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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A.
Kenneth Ray Rogers
Kenneth Ray Rogers, better known as Kenny Rogers, was a celebrated American country music singer, songwriter, and actor renowned for hits like "The Gambler" and "Lady."
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B.
John Klute
John Klute is the title character of the 1971 neo-noir thriller film "Klute," a private detective whose investigation entangles him with a call girl played by Jane Fonda.
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C.
Ian Dallas
Ian Dallas is a video game designer and creative director best known as the lead creator behind the narrative-driven game What Remains of Edith Finch.
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D.
Don Laws
Don Laws was a prominent American figure skating coach and former competitive skater, best known for mentoring elite athletes and contributing significantly to the sport’s development.
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E.
Larry Blanford
Larry Blanford is a professional cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as the romantic comedy "Think Like a Man."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball player
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human ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
1960s
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1970s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| leaguePlayedIn |
American Basketball Association
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National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| occupation | basketball player ⓘ |
| participantIn | professional basketball ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | guard ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
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: Larry Cannon Description of subject: Larry Cannon is a former American professional basketball player who played as a guard in the ABA and NBA during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.