Eric Augustus Floyd
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Eric Augustus Floyd, better known as "Sleepy" Floyd, is a retired American professional basketball player who starred as a scoring point guard in the NBA during the 1980s and early 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eric Augustus Floyd canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11727837 — 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: Eric Augustus Floyd Context triple: [Sleepy Floyd, fullName, Eric Augustus Floyd]
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A.
Charles Melvin Williams
Charles Melvin "Cootie" Williams was an influential American jazz trumpeter and bandleader renowned for his work with Duke Ellington and his pioneering use of the plunger mute.
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B.
Floyd Lawson
Floyd Lawson is the mild-mannered, talkative barber of Mayberry on the classic American television sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show."
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C.
Cordell Broadus
Cordell Broadus is an American former college football player and entrepreneur best known as the son of rapper Snoop Dogg and for his appearances on the reality show "Snoop Dogg's Father Hood."
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D.
Clarence Edwin Gaston
Clarence Edwin Gaston is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and manager best known for leading the Toronto Blue Jays to back-to-back World Series championships in 1992 and 1993.
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E.
Roger Dale Floyd
Roger Dale Floyd is a young American actor best known for playing the child version of Danny Torrance in the horror film "Doctor Sleep."
- 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: Eric Augustus Floyd Target entity description: Eric Augustus Floyd, better known as "Sleepy" Floyd, is a retired American professional basketball player who starred as a scoring point guard in the NBA during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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A.
Charles Melvin Williams
Charles Melvin "Cootie" Williams was an influential American jazz trumpeter and bandleader renowned for his work with Duke Ellington and his pioneering use of the plunger mute.
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B.
Floyd Lawson
Floyd Lawson is the mild-mannered, talkative barber of Mayberry on the classic American television sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show."
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C.
Cordell Broadus
Cordell Broadus is an American former college football player and entrepreneur best known as the son of rapper Snoop Dogg and for his appearances on the reality show "Snoop Dogg's Father Hood."
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D.
Clarence Edwin Gaston
Clarence Edwin Gaston is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and manager best known for leading the Toronto Blue Jays to back-to-back World Series championships in 1992 and 1993.
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E.
Roger Dale Floyd
Roger Dale Floyd is a young American actor best known for playing the child version of Danny Torrance in the horror film "Doctor Sleep."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
National Basketball Association player
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human ⓘ point guard ⓘ professional basketball player ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
1980s
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1990s ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | Georgetown University ⓘ |
| collegeTeam | Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| draftedBy |
New Jersey Nets
ⓘ
linked to:
Brooklyn Nets
|
| draftLeague |
NBA
ⓘ
linked to:
National Basketball Association
|
| draftPickNumber | 13 ⓘ |
| draftRound | 1 ⓘ |
| familyName | Floyd ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Eric ⓘ |
| league | National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| middleName | Augustus ⓘ |
| nickname | Sleepy Floyd ⓘ |
| notableFor | high-scoring playoff performances ⓘ |
| occupation | basketball player ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Charlotte Hornets
ⓘ
Golden State Warriors ⓘ Houston Rockets ⓘ New Jersey Nets ⓘ
linked to:
Brooklyn Nets
Washington Bullets ⓘ
linked to:
Washington Wizards
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| positionPlayed | point guard ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| retired | true ⓘ |
| 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: Eric Augustus Floyd Description of subject: Eric Augustus Floyd, better known as "Sleepy" Floyd, is a retired American professional basketball player who starred as a scoring point guard in the NBA during the 1980s and early 1990s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.