Josh Pastner
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Josh Pastner is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of Memphis and Georgia Tech men's basketball programs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Josh Pastner canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8372984 — 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: Josh Pastner Context triple: [Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball, notableCoach, Josh Pastner]
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A.
Scott Pascucci
Scott Pascucci is a film and music executive and producer known for his work on major music documentaries, including projects related to The Beatles.
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B.
Brian Blosil
Brian Blosil is an American record producer and the former husband of entertainer Marie Osmond.
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C.
Mark Kostabi
Mark Kostabi is an American artist and composer known for his stylized, faceless figures and for designing notable album covers for major rock bands.
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D.
Greg Medavoy
Greg Medavoy is a mild-mannered, often self-doubting detective whose personal growth and quiet competence provide both comic relief and emotional depth throughout the TV series "NYPD Blue."
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E.
Greg Latter
Greg Latter is a screenwriter best known for his work on the apartheid-era drama film "Goodbye Bafana."
- 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: Josh Pastner Target entity description: Josh Pastner is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of Memphis and Georgia Tech men's basketball programs.
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A.
Scott Pascucci
Scott Pascucci is a film and music executive and producer known for his work on major music documentaries, including projects related to The Beatles.
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B.
Brian Blosil
Brian Blosil is an American record producer and the former husband of entertainer Marie Osmond.
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C.
Mark Kostabi
Mark Kostabi is an American artist and composer known for his stylized, faceless figures and for designing notable album covers for major rock bands.
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D.
Greg Medavoy
Greg Medavoy is a mild-mannered, often self-doubting detective whose personal growth and quiet competence provide both comic relief and emotional depth throughout the TV series "NYPD Blue."
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E.
Greg Latter
Greg Latter is a screenwriter best known for his work on the apartheid-era drama film "Goodbye Bafana."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball coach
ⓘ
college basketball coach ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
tenure as head coach of Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball
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tenure as head coach of Memphis Tigers men's basketball ⓘ |
| awardReceived | ACC Coach of the Year ⓘ |
| coachedUnder |
John Calipari
ⓘ
Lute Olson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1977-09-26 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Arizona ⓘ |
| employer |
Georgia Institute of Technology
ⓘ
University of Arizona ⓘ University of California, Berkeley ⓘ University of Memphis ⓘ |
| endTime |
2016-04-08
ⓘ
2023-03-10 ⓘ |
| familyName | Pastner ⓘ |
| father | Hal Pastner ⓘ |
| givenName | Josh ⓘ |
| headCoachOf |
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball
ⓘ
Memphis Tigers men's basketball ⓘ
linked to:
Memphis Tigers
|
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Arizona Wildcats men's basketball ⓘ |
| name | Josh Pastner ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | youngest head coach in NCAA Division I men's basketball at time of hiring by Memphis ⓘ |
| notableWork |
leading Georgia Tech to the 2021 ACC men's basketball tournament championship
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leading Memphis to multiple NCAA tournament appearances ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
assistant coach
ⓘ
basketball coach ⓘ basketball player ⓘ head coach ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1997 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game
ⓘ
1997 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Glen Dale, West Virginia, United States ⓘ |
| pointInTime | 2017 ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | guard ⓘ |
| recruitedFor | Arizona Wildcats men's basketball ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Atlanta
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Tami Pastner ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| spouse | Kerri Lamas ⓘ |
| startTime |
2009-04-06
ⓘ
2016-04-08 ⓘ |
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: Josh Pastner Description of subject: Josh Pastner is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of Memphis and Georgia Tech men's basketball programs.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.