Mark Johnson
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Mark Johnson is an American ice hockey player best known as a leading scorer and key figure in the "Miracle on Ice" U.S. team that won gold at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mark Johnson canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2020768 — 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: Mark Johnson Context triple: [1980 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team, player, Mark Johnson]
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A.
Christopher Johnson
Christopher Johnson is an American businessman and member of the Johnson family who serves as a principal owner and executive of the New York Jets NFL franchise.
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B.
Leo Johnson
Leo Johnson is a British writer and sustainability expert, known for his work on business, risk, and environmental issues and as the younger brother of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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C.
Todd Fisher
Todd Fisher is an American producer, director, cinematographer, and the son of entertainers Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher.
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D.
Jeffrey Fuller
Jeffrey Fuller is known primarily as the son of prominent American lawyer, feminist, and civil liberties advocate Crystal Eastman.
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E.
Bryan Donovan
Bryan Donovan is one of the children of American basketball coach Billy Donovan.
- 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: Mark Johnson Target entity description: Mark Johnson is an American ice hockey player best known as a leading scorer and key figure in the "Miracle on Ice" U.S. team that won gold at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
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A.
Christopher Johnson
Christopher Johnson is an American businessman and member of the Johnson family who serves as a principal owner and executive of the New York Jets NFL franchise.
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B.
Leo Johnson
Leo Johnson is a British writer and sustainability expert, known for his work on business, risk, and environmental issues and as the younger brother of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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C.
Todd Fisher
Todd Fisher is an American producer, director, cinematographer, and the son of entertainers Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher.
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D.
Jeffrey Fuller
Jeffrey Fuller is known primarily as the son of prominent American lawyer, feminist, and civil liberties advocate Crystal Eastman.
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E.
Bryan Donovan
Bryan Donovan is one of the children of American basketball coach Billy Donovan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic athlete
ⓘ
human ⓘ ice hockey player ⓘ |
| activeAsCoachFrom | early 2000s ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1980s
ⓘ
late 1970s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
induction into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame
ⓘ
induction into the Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| Bob Johnson'sOccupation | ice hockey coach ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Pittsburgh Penguins ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| employer | University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| familyName | Johnson ⓘ |
| familyRelation | son of Bob Johnson ⓘ |
| father | Bob Johnson ⓘ |
| givenName | Mark ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| league | National Hockey League ⓘ |
| medal | gold medal in men's ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
New England Whalers
ⓘ
surface form:
Hartford Whalers
Minnesota North Stars (partial use) ⓘ
surface form:
Minnesota North Stars
Pittsburgh Penguins ⓘ St. Louis Blues ⓘ United States men's national ice hockey team ⓘ Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey ⓘ
surface form:
University of Wisconsin–Madison men's ice hockey team
|
| name | Mark Johnson ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
Olympic gold medal in ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics
ⓘ
key figure in the Miracle on Ice game against the Soviet Union ⓘ led Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey team to multiple NCAA championships ⓘ |
| notableWork | leading scorer for the U.S. ice hockey team at the 1980 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| occupation |
ice hockey coach
ⓘ
ice hockey player ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1980 Winter Olympics
ⓘ
Miracle on Ice (1981 TV film) ⓘ
surface form:
Miracle on Ice
|
| participatedIn | National Hockey League games ⓘ |
| positionHeld | head coach of Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey team ⓘ |
| positionPlayedOnTeam |
center
ⓘ
forward ⓘ |
| representedByTeam |
United States at the Winter Olympics
ⓘ
surface form:
United States at the 1980 Winter Olympics
|
| residence | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| scoringRole | leading scorer for the U.S. team at the 1980 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| sportSpecialization | men's ice hockey ⓘ |
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: Mark Johnson Description of subject: Mark Johnson is an American ice hockey player best known as a leading scorer and key figure in the "Miracle on Ice" U.S. team that won gold at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.