Jim Zalesky
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Jim Zalesky is an American wrestling coach and former collegiate champion best known for leading the University of Iowa Hawkeyes wrestling program to multiple NCAA team titles in the 1990s and early 2000s.
All labels observed (1)
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| Jim Zalesky canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10091941 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jim Zalesky Context triple: [Iowa Hawkeyes wrestling team, formerCoach, Jim Zalesky]
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A.
Max Zaritsky
Max Zaritsky was an American labor leader and union organizer who played a key role in the early development of industrial unionism in the United States.
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B.
Josh Kesselman
Josh Kesselman is a film and television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on projects such as the series "The Great."
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C.
Michael Kuzak
Michael Kuzak is a central attorney character on the television legal drama "L.A. Law," known for his idealism and high-profile courtroom battles.
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D.
Eric Pleskow
Eric Pleskow was an Austrian-born American film executive and producer best known for leading major studios and co-founding the influential independent film company Orion Pictures.
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E.
David Zelon
David Zelon is a film producer best known for working on action and thriller movies, including the underwater adventure film "Into the Blue."
- 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: Jim Zalesky Target entity description: Jim Zalesky is an American wrestling coach and former collegiate champion best known for leading the University of Iowa Hawkeyes wrestling program to multiple NCAA team titles in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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A.
Max Zaritsky
Max Zaritsky was an American labor leader and union organizer who played a key role in the early development of industrial unionism in the United States.
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B.
Josh Kesselman
Josh Kesselman is a film and television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on projects such as the series "The Great."
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C.
Michael Kuzak
Michael Kuzak is a central attorney character on the television legal drama "L.A. Law," known for his idealism and high-profile courtroom battles.
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D.
Eric Pleskow
Eric Pleskow was an Austrian-born American film executive and producer best known for leading major studios and co-founding the influential independent film company Orion Pictures.
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E.
David Zelon
David Zelon is a film producer best known for working on action and thriller movies, including the underwater adventure film "Into the Blue."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA wrestling champion
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amateur wrestler ⓘ human ⓘ wrestling coach ⓘ |
| achievement | won multiple NCAA team titles as head coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1990s
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2000s ⓘ |
| coachedTeam |
University of Iowa Hawkeyes wrestling program
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linked to:
Iowa Hawkeyes wrestling team
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| competitionClass | collegiate wrestling ⓘ |
| countryOfCoaching | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | University of Iowa ⓘ |
| familyName | Zalesky ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | collegiate wrestling coaching ⓘ |
| genre | folkstyle wrestling ⓘ |
| givenName | Jim ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Jim Zalesky ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading the University of Iowa Hawkeyes wrestling program to multiple NCAA team titles ⓘ |
| notableRole | head coach of a historically dominant NCAA wrestling program ⓘ |
| occupation |
wrestler
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wrestling coach ⓘ |
| positionHeld | head wrestling coach at the University of Iowa ⓘ |
| residenceCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| sport | wrestling ⓘ |
| sportDisciplineCoached | men's collegiate wrestling ⓘ |
| teamCoachedLevel | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jim Zalesky Description of subject: Jim Zalesky is an American wrestling coach and former collegiate champion best known for leading the University of Iowa Hawkeyes wrestling program to multiple NCAA team titles in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.