Rex Walters
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Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rex Walters canonical | 3 |
| Don Buse | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T183554 — 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: Rex Walters Context triple: [San Francisco Dons men's basketball, notableCoach, Rex Walters]
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A.
Ralph Coleman
Ralph Coleman was a prominent Oregon State University baseball coach whose legacy in the sport led to the university’s baseball stadium being named in his honor.
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B.
Charles Walters
Charles Walters was an American film director and choreographer best known for his work on classic MGM musicals in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Frank Richard Wells
Frank Richard Wells was a son of the famed English writer H. G. Wells.
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D.
James Algar
James Algar was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his long career at Walt Disney Studios, where he worked on both animated features and nature documentaries.
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E.
Lance Cumson
Lance Cumson is a central, often scheming heir in the 1980s American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," known for his turbulent family and romantic entanglements.
- 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: Rex Walters Target entity description: Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
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A.
Ralph Coleman
Ralph Coleman was a prominent Oregon State University baseball coach whose legacy in the sport led to the university’s baseball stadium being named in his honor.
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B.
Charles Walters
Charles Walters was an American film director and choreographer best known for his work on classic MGM musicals in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Frank Richard Wells
Frank Richard Wells was a son of the famed English writer H. G. Wells.
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D.
James Algar
James Algar was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his long career at Walt Disney Studios, where he worked on both animated features and nature documentaries.
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E.
Lance Cumson
Lance Cumson is a central, often scheming heir in the 1980s American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," known for his turbulent family and romantic entanglements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Rex Walters Description of subject: Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Don Buse
subject surface form:
University of San Francisco men’s basketball team