Lois Tarkanian
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Lois Tarkanian is an American educator and longtime Las Vegas civic leader who served on the Las Vegas City Council and is known as the wife of famed basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lois Tarkanian canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7352764 — 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: Lois Tarkanian Context triple: [Jerry Tarkanian, spouse, Lois Tarkanian]
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C. Vivian Stringer
C. Vivian Stringer is a Hall of Fame American women’s college basketball coach renowned for building powerhouse programs at multiple universities and becoming one of the winningest coaches in NCAA history.
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B.
R. B. Summitt
R. B. Summitt is best known as the former husband of legendary University of Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt.
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Pat Summitt
Pat Summitt was a legendary American college basketball coach who built the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers into a national powerhouse and became one of the winningest coaches in NCAA history.
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D.
Beth Howland
Beth Howland was an American actress best known for her role as the high-strung waitress Vera Louise Gorman on the long-running sitcom "Alice."
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E.
Mickie Krzyzewski
Mickie Krzyzewski is the longtime wife and partner of legendary Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, known for her prominent role in supporting his career and their extensive philanthropic work.
- 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: Lois Tarkanian Target entity description: Lois Tarkanian is an American educator and longtime Las Vegas civic leader who served on the Las Vegas City Council and is known as the wife of famed basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian.
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A.
C. Vivian Stringer
C. Vivian Stringer is a Hall of Fame American women’s college basketball coach renowned for building powerhouse programs at multiple universities and becoming one of the winningest coaches in NCAA history.
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B.
R. B. Summitt
R. B. Summitt is best known as the former husband of legendary University of Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt.
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C.
Pat Summitt
Pat Summitt was a legendary American college basketball coach who built the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers into a national powerhouse and became one of the winningest coaches in NCAA history.
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D.
Beth Howland
Beth Howland was an American actress best known for her role as the high-strung waitress Vera Louise Gorman on the long-running sitcom "Alice."
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E.
Mickie Krzyzewski
Mickie Krzyzewski is the longtime wife and partner of legendary Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, known for her prominent role in supporting his career and their extensive philanthropic work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Las Vegas civic leader
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educator ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Armenian American (by marriage) ⓘ |
| familyName | Tarkanian ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
education
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local government ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | public service ⓘ |
| givenName | Lois ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Danny Tarkanian ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Lois Tarkanian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian
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involvement in education policy in Clark County, Nevada ⓘ longtime civic leadership in Las Vegas ⓘ service on the Las Vegas City Council ⓘ |
| occupation |
educator
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politician ⓘ school board member ⓘ |
| placeOfPoliticalActivity | Las Vegas, Nevada ⓘ |
| politicalActivity | municipal politics in Las Vegas ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Las Vegas City Councilwoman
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member of the Las Vegas City Council ⓘ trustee of the Clark County School District Board of Trustees ⓘ |
| residence | Las Vegas, Nevada ⓘ |
| spouse | Jerry Tarkanian ⓘ |
| workLocation | Las Vegas, Nevada ⓘ |
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: Lois Tarkanian Description of subject: Lois Tarkanian is an American educator and longtime Las Vegas civic leader who served on the Las Vegas City Council and is known as the wife of famed basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.