Steve Donahue
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Steve Donahue is an American college basketball coach best known for leading Cornell University to multiple NCAA Tournament appearances, including a historic Sweet Sixteen run in 2010.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steve Donahue canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2431219 — 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: Steve Donahue Context triple: [Cornell Big Red men's basketball, notableCoach, Steve Donahue]
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A.
Tom Luddy
Tom Luddy was an American film producer, curator, and influential cinephile best known as a co-founder and long-time guiding force of the Telluride Film Festival.
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B.
Dan Dailey
Dan Dailey was an American actor and dancer best known for his roles in Hollywood musicals of the 1940s and 1950s.
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C.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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D.
David Bonderman
David Bonderman is an American billionaire businessman and private equity investor, best known as a founding partner of TPG Capital and as a prominent owner of major professional sports franchises.
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E.
Ozzie Silna
Ozzie Silna was an American businessman best known for striking an extraordinarily lucrative television revenue deal during the ABA–NBA merger as a former co-owner of the Spirits of St. Louis basketball team.
- 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 Donahue Target entity description: Steve Donahue is an American college basketball coach best known for leading Cornell University to multiple NCAA Tournament appearances, including a historic Sweet Sixteen run in 2010.
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A.
Tom Luddy
Tom Luddy was an American film producer, curator, and influential cinephile best known as a co-founder and long-time guiding force of the Telluride Film Festival.
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B.
Dan Dailey
Dan Dailey was an American actor and dancer best known for his roles in Hollywood musicals of the 1940s and 1950s.
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C.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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D.
David Bonderman
David Bonderman is an American billionaire businessman and private equity investor, best known as a founding partner of TPG Capital and as a prominent owner of major professional sports franchises.
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E.
Ozzie Silna
Ozzie Silna was an American businessman best known for striking an extraordinarily lucrative television revenue deal during the ABA–NBA merger as a former co-owner of the Spirits of St. Louis basketball team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball coach
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college basketball coach ⓘ human ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Atlantic Coast Conference
ⓘ
surface form:
Atlantic Coast Conference (through Boston College)
Ivy League ⓘ
surface form:
Ivy League (through Cornell and Penn)
|
| basedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coachedTeam |
Boston College Eagles men’s basketball
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston College Eagles men's basketball
Cornell Big Red men’s basketball ⓘ
surface form:
Cornell Big Red men's basketball
Penn Quakers basketball ⓘ
surface form:
Penn Quakers men's basketball
|
| competitionClass |
NCAA tournament
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Tournament
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Boston College
ⓘ
Cornell University ⓘ Ivy League ⓘ
surface form:
Ivy League institutions
University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
basketball strategy
ⓘ
sports coaching ⓘ |
| genre | men's college basketball coaching ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Cornell Big Red men’s basketball
ⓘ
surface form:
Cornell 2010 Sweet Sixteen season (as head coach)
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| league | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Boston College Eagles men’s basketball
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston College Eagles men's basketball (as head coach)
Cornell Big Red men’s basketball ⓘ
surface form:
Cornell Big Red men's basketball (as head coach)
Penn Quakers basketball ⓘ
surface form:
Penn Quakers men's basketball (as head coach)
|
| notableAchievement | guiding an Ivy League team to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen in 2010 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
coaching in multiple NCAA Tournaments with Cornell
ⓘ
leading Cornell University to multiple NCAA Tournament appearances ⓘ leading Cornell to the 2010 NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen ⓘ revitalizing Cornell men's basketball program ⓘ |
| notableWork | 2010 NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen run with Cornell ⓘ |
| occupation |
basketball coach
ⓘ
college basketball coach ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
head coach of Boston College Eagles men's basketball team
ⓘ
head coach of Cornell Big Red men's basketball team ⓘ head coach of Penn Quakers men's basketball team ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Chestnut Hill, Newton
ⓘ
surface form:
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Ithaca, New York, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Ithaca, New York
Philadelphia ⓘ
surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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How these facts were elicited
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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: Steve Donahue Description of subject: Steve Donahue is an American college basketball coach best known for leading Cornell University to multiple NCAA Tournament appearances, including a historic Sweet Sixteen run in 2010.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cornell Big Red men's basketball