Bill Hodges
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Bill Hodges is an American basketball coach best known for leading the Larry Bird–led Indiana State Sycamores to the 1979 NCAA championship game.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bill Hodges canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1168084 — 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: Bill Hodges Context triple: [Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball, 1979HeadCoach, Bill Hodges]
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A.
Pat Hobbs
Pat Hobbs is an American college athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at Rutgers University, where he has overseen major developments in the Scarlet Knights’ athletic programs.
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B.
Eddie Sawyer
Eddie Sawyer was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Philadelphia Phillies' "Whiz Kids" to the 1950 National League pennant.
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C.
Mr. Sands
Mr. Sands is a white slaveholder and the complex, often morally ambiguous love interest of the narrator in Harriet Jacobs’s autobiographical slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
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D.
Hank O’Day
Hank O’Day was a prominent early 20th-century Major League Baseball umpire and former pitcher, best known for his long umpiring career and involvement in several historic games and controversies.
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E.
Charlie Bartlett
Charlie Bartlett is a 2007 teen comedy-drama film about a wealthy but troubled high school student who becomes an amateur psychiatrist for his classmates.
- 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: Bill Hodges Target entity description: Bill Hodges is an American basketball coach best known for leading the Larry Bird–led Indiana State Sycamores to the 1979 NCAA championship game.
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A.
Pat Hobbs
Pat Hobbs is an American college athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at Rutgers University, where he has overseen major developments in the Scarlet Knights’ athletic programs.
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B.
Eddie Sawyer
Eddie Sawyer was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Philadelphia Phillies' "Whiz Kids" to the 1950 National League pennant.
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C.
Mr. Sands
Mr. Sands is a white slaveholder and the complex, often morally ambiguous love interest of the narrator in Harriet Jacobs’s autobiographical slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
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D.
Hank O’Day
Hank O’Day was a prominent early 20th-century Major League Baseball umpire and former pitcher, best known for his long umpiring career and involvement in several historic games and controversies.
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E.
Charlie Bartlett
Charlie Bartlett is a 2007 teen comedy-drama film about a wealthy but troubled high school student who becomes an amateur psychiatrist for his classmates.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American basketball coach
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basketball coach ⓘ human ⓘ |
| basedIn | Indiana ⓘ |
| coachedPlayer | Larry Bird ⓘ |
| coachOf |
Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball
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surface form:
Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team
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| competitionCoachedIn |
NCAA Division I
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surface form:
NCAA Division I men's basketball
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| countryOfWork | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Indiana State University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
basketball coaching
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sports coaching ⓘ |
| genre | college basketball ⓘ |
| givenName | Bill ⓘ |
| hasNotability |
NCAA basketball
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surface form:
NCAA men's basketball
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| hasRole |
college basketball coach
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head coach ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| ledTeamTo | 1979 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game ⓘ |
| name | Bill Hodges self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
coaching Larry Bird–led Indiana State Sycamores
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leading Indiana State Sycamores to 1979 NCAA championship game ⓘ |
| occupation | basketball coach ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| teamCoached |
Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball
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surface form:
Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team
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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: Bill Hodges Description of subject: Bill Hodges is an American basketball coach best known for leading the Larry Bird–led Indiana State Sycamores to the 1979 NCAA championship game.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.