Royce Waltman
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Royce Waltman was an American college basketball coach best known for revitalizing the Indiana State Sycamores program and leading them to multiple postseason appearances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Royce Waltman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1168105 — 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: Royce Waltman Context triple: [Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball, notableCoach, Royce Waltman]
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A.
Austin Rivers
Austin Rivers is an American professional basketball player known for his scoring ability and time in the NBA with multiple teams, including the Los Angeles Clippers and Houston Rockets.
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B.
Aaron Covington
Aaron Covington is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the boxing drama film "Creed."
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C.
Nate Rogers
Nate Rogers is a notable individual who shares the Rogers surname and has achieved enough recognition to be specifically identified among its bearers.
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D.
Jason Hudson
Jason Hudson was the brother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically murdered in a widely publicized 2008 family shooting in Chicago.
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E.
Roderic Dallas
Roderic Dallas was a distinguished Australian fighter ace of World War I who became one of the leading pilots in British naval aviation.
- 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: Royce Waltman Target entity description: Royce Waltman was an American college basketball coach best known for revitalizing the Indiana State Sycamores program and leading them to multiple postseason appearances.
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A.
Austin Rivers
Austin Rivers is an American professional basketball player known for his scoring ability and time in the NBA with multiple teams, including the Los Angeles Clippers and Houston Rockets.
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B.
Aaron Covington
Aaron Covington is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the boxing drama film "Creed."
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C.
Nate Rogers
Nate Rogers is a notable individual who shares the Rogers surname and has achieved enough recognition to be specifically identified among its bearers.
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D.
Jason Hudson
Jason Hudson was the brother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically murdered in a widely publicized 2008 family shooting in Chicago.
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E.
Roderic Dallas
Roderic Dallas was a distinguished Australian fighter ace of World War I who became one of the leading pilots in British naval aviation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball coach
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college basketball coach ⓘ human ⓘ |
| basedIn | Indiana ⓘ |
| coachedTeam |
DePauw Tigers men's basketball
ⓘ
surface form:
DePauw Tigers men’s basketball
Evansville Purple Aces ⓘ
surface form:
Evansville Purple Aces men’s basketball (as assistant)
Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball ⓘ
surface form:
Indiana Hoosiers men’s basketball (as assistant)
Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball ⓘ
surface form:
Indiana State Sycamores men’s basketball
Indianapolis Greyhounds men’s basketball ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
DePauw University
ⓘ
Indiana State University ⓘ Indiana University ⓘ University of Evansville ⓘ University of Indianapolis ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
basketball strategy
ⓘ
sports coaching ⓘ |
| genre | men’s college basketball ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| league |
NCAA Division I
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NCAA Division II ⓘ NCAA Division III ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
led Indiana State to NCAA Tournament appearances
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led Indiana State to NIT appearances ⓘ revived Indiana State men’s basketball competitiveness in the Missouri Valley Conference ⓘ |
| notableFor |
developing mid-major basketball programs
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leading Indiana State Sycamores to multiple postseason appearances ⓘ revitalizing the Indiana State Sycamores men’s basketball program ⓘ |
| occupation |
basketball coach
ⓘ
college basketball coach ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
assistant coach of Evansville Purple Aces men’s basketball team
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assistant coach of Indiana Hoosiers men’s basketball team ⓘ head coach of DePauw Tigers men’s basketball team ⓘ head coach of Indiana State Sycamores men’s basketball team ⓘ head coach of Indianapolis Greyhounds men’s basketball team ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| workedUnder |
Bob Knight
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surface form:
Bobby Knight
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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: Royce Waltman Description of subject: Royce Waltman was an American college basketball coach best known for revitalizing the Indiana State Sycamores program and leading them to multiple postseason appearances.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.