Mac Otten
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Mac Otten was an American professional basketball player who competed in the early years of the National Basketball Association.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mac Otten canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9600973 — 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: Mac Otten Context triple: [Don Otten, sibling, Mac Otten]
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A.
Jeff Ott
Jeff Ott is an American punk musician and activist best known as the vocalist and guitarist of the influential East Bay punk band Crimpshrine.
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B.
Mark Okerstrom
Mark Okerstrom is a Canadian business executive best known for serving as the former CEO of Expedia Group.
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C.
Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
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D.
Keith Andes
Keith Andes was an American actor known for his work in mid-20th-century film, television, and theater, including notable roles in productions like "A Date with Judy" and "This Man Is Mine."
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E.
Sean Hopper
Sean Hopper is an American keyboardist best known as a longtime member of the rock band Huey Lewis and the News.
- 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: Mac Otten Target entity description: Mac Otten was an American professional basketball player who competed in the early years of the National Basketball Association.
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A.
Jeff Ott
Jeff Ott is an American punk musician and activist best known as the vocalist and guitarist of the influential East Bay punk band Crimpshrine.
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B.
Mark Okerstrom
Mark Okerstrom is a Canadian business executive best known for serving as the former CEO of Expedia Group.
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C.
Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
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D.
Keith Andes
Keith Andes was an American actor known for his work in mid-20th-century film, television, and theater, including notable roles in productions like "A Date with Judy" and "This Man Is Mine."
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E.
Sean Hopper
Sean Hopper is an American keyboardist best known as a longtime member of the rock band Huey Lewis and the News.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball player
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| collegeTeam | Bowling Green Falcons men's basketball ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1925-12-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2013-12-24 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Indianapolis Olympians ⓘ |
| draftLeague | BAA ⓘ |
| draftPickNumber | 7 ⓘ |
| draftRound | 1 ⓘ |
| draftYear | 1949 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Bowling Green State University ⓘ |
| familyName | Otten ⓘ |
| givenName | Mac ⓘ |
| height | 6 ft 7 in ⓘ |
| league | National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Bowling Green Falcons men's basketball
ⓘ
St. Louis Bombers ⓘ Tri-Cities Blackhawks ⓘ |
| notableFor | competing in the early years of the National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| occupation | basketball player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bellefontaine, Ohio ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Bellefontaine, Ohio ⓘ |
| playedIn | early years of the National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
center
ⓘ
forward ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| 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: Mac Otten Description of subject: Mac Otten was an American professional basketball player who competed in the early years of the National Basketball Association.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.