Steve Fisher
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Steve Fisher is an American college basketball coach best known for revitalizing the San Diego State Aztecs program and previously leading the Michigan Wolverines to the 1989 NCAA championship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Steve Fisher canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1440935 — 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)
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Target entity: Steve Fisher Context triple: [San Diego State Aztecs men's basketball, notableCoach, Steve Fisher]
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A.
Red Holzman
Red Holzman was a Hall of Fame basketball coach best known for leading the New York Knicks to two NBA championships in the early 1970s.
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B.
Fred LaRue
Fred LaRue was a Republican political operative best known for his secretive role in Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign and involvement in the Watergate scandal.
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C.
Dan Mazzulla
Dan Mazzulla was an American basketball coach and former player, best known as the father of NBA head coach Joe Mazzulla and for his long involvement in Rhode Island basketball.
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D.
Don Waddell
Don Waddell is an American ice hockey executive best known for serving as the longtime general manager of the NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers and later holding senior management roles with other NHL franchises.
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E.
Bill Sharman
Bill Sharman was an American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach, best known for his sharpshooting with the Boston Celtics and for leading multiple teams to championships in both the NBA and ABA.
- 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: Steve Fisher Target entity description: Steve Fisher is an American college basketball coach best known for revitalizing the San Diego State Aztecs program and previously leading the Michigan Wolverines to the 1989 NCAA championship.
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A.
Red Holzman
Red Holzman was a Hall of Fame basketball coach best known for leading the New York Knicks to two NBA championships in the early 1970s.
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B.
Fred LaRue
Fred LaRue was a Republican political operative best known for his secretive role in Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign and involvement in the Watergate scandal.
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C.
Dan Mazzulla
Dan Mazzulla was an American basketball coach and former player, best known as the father of NBA head coach Joe Mazzulla and for his long involvement in Rhode Island basketball.
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D.
Don Waddell
Don Waddell is an American ice hockey executive best known for serving as the longtime general manager of the NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers and later holding senior management roles with other NHL franchises.
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E.
Bill Sharman
Bill Sharman was an American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach, best known for his sharpshooting with the Boston Celtics and for leading multiple teams to championships in both the NBA and ABA.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball coach
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college basketball coach ⓘ human ⓘ |
| achievement | NCAA Division I men’s basketball championship with Michigan in 1989 ⓘ |
| awardReceived | NCAA men’s basketball national championship (head coach, 1989) ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Ann Arbor, Michigan (during tenure at Michigan)
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San Diego, California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
San Diego, California (during tenure at San Diego State)
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| coachedTeam |
Michigan Wolverines men's basketball
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball
San Diego State Aztecs men's basketball ⓘ
surface form:
San Diego State Aztecs men’s basketball
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
San Diego State University
ⓘ
University of Michigan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | college basketball coaching ⓘ |
| genre | men’s college basketball ⓘ |
| league | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Michigan Wolverines men's basketball
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball coaching staff
San Diego State Aztecs men’s basketball coaching staff ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leading the Michigan Wolverines to the 1989 NCAA men’s basketball championship
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revitalizing the San Diego State Aztecs men’s basketball program ⓘ |
| notableWork | building San Diego State into a nationally ranked basketball program ⓘ |
| occupation |
basketball coach
ⓘ
college basketball coach ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
head coach of Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball team
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head coach of San Diego State Aztecs men’s basketball team ⓘ |
| 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: Steve Fisher Description of subject: Steve Fisher is an American college basketball coach best known for revitalizing the San Diego State Aztecs program and previously leading the Michigan Wolverines to the 1989 NCAA championship.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.