Thad Matta

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Thad Matta is an American college basketball coach best known for his successful tenures at Xavier and Ohio State, where he led the Buckeyes to multiple Big Ten titles and two Final Four appearances.

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Label Occurrences
Thad Matta canonical 3
Thad Michael Matta 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf basketball coach
college basketball coach
human
almaMater Butler University
awardReceived Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year
Big Ten Coach of the Year
Naismith College Coach of the Year
coachedTeam Butler Bulldogs men's basketball
Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball
Miami RedHawks
surface form: Miami RedHawks men's basketball

Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball
Western Carolina Catamounts men's basketball
Xavier Musketeers men's basketball
conference Atlantic 10 Conference
Big Ten Conference
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1967-07-11
endTime head coach at Butler Bulldogs men's basketball (second tenure): 2024
head coach at Butler Bulldogs men's basketball: 2001
head coach at Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball: 2017
head coach at Xavier Musketeers men's basketball: 2004
familyName Matta
fullName Thad Matta self-linksurface differs
surface form: Thad Michael Matta
genre men's college basketball coaching
givenName Thad
headCoachOf Butler Bulldogs men's basketball
Butler Bulldogs men's basketball
surface form: Butler Bulldogs men's basketball (second tenure)

Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball
Xavier Musketeers men's basketball
knownFor leading Ohio State to multiple Big Ten titles
leading Ohio State to two Final Four appearances
successful tenure as head coach at Ohio State
successful tenure as head coach at Xavier
notableAchievement led Ohio State to the 2007 NCAA Final Four
led Ohio State to the 2007 NCAA Tournament championship game
led Ohio State to the 2012 NCAA Final Four
won multiple Big Ten Tournament titles with Ohio State
won multiple Big Ten regular-season titles with Ohio State
occupation basketball coach
basketball player
placeOfBirth Hoopeston, Illinois, United States
playedFor Butler Bulldogs men's basketball
positionPlayed guard
residence Ohio
surface form: Ohio, United States
sport basketball
startTime head coach at Butler Bulldogs men's basketball (second tenure): 2022
head coach at Butler Bulldogs men's basketball: 2000
head coach at Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball: 2004
head coach at Xavier Musketeers men's basketball: 2001

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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: Thad Matta
Description of subject: Thad Matta is an American college basketball coach best known for his successful tenures at Xavier and Ohio State, where he led the Buckeyes to multiple Big Ten titles and two Final Four appearances.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bulldogs headCoach Thad Matta
subject surface form: Butler Bulldogs men's basketball
Thad Matta fullName Thad Matta self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Thad Michael Matta