Tom Maher
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Tom Maher is an accomplished Australian basketball coach renowned for leading multiple national women’s teams at the Olympics and coaching professionally in leagues such as the WNBA.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Maher canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T109207 — 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: Tom Maher Context triple: [Washington Mystics, formerHeadCoach, Tom Maher]
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A.
Denis McDonough
Denis McDonough is an American political advisor who served as White House Chief of Staff under President Barack Obama.
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B.
Patrick E. Haggerty
Patrick E. Haggerty was an American engineer and business executive who played a pivotal role in the early semiconductor industry and the growth of Texas Instruments into a major technology company.
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C.
Sam Kennedy
Sam Kennedy is a Major League Baseball executive best known for serving as the president and CEO of the Boston Red Sox.
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D.
Pat Quinn
Pat Quinn was a highly respected Canadian NHL coach and executive known for leading multiple teams to deep playoff runs and coaching Team Canada to international success.
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E.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
- 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: Tom Maher Target entity description: Tom Maher is an accomplished Australian basketball coach renowned for leading multiple national women’s teams at the Olympics and coaching professionally in leagues such as the WNBA.
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A.
Denis McDonough
Denis McDonough is an American political advisor who served as White House Chief of Staff under President Barack Obama.
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B.
Patrick E. Haggerty
Patrick E. Haggerty was an American engineer and business executive who played a pivotal role in the early semiconductor industry and the growth of Texas Instruments into a major technology company.
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C.
Sam Kennedy
Sam Kennedy is a Major League Baseball executive best known for serving as the president and CEO of the Boston Red Sox.
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D.
Pat Quinn
Pat Quinn was a highly respected Canadian NHL coach and executive known for leading multiple teams to deep playoff runs and coaching Team Canada to international success.
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E.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian basketball coach
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basketball coach ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
basketball coaching
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sports coaching ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasCoachedCompetition |
2012 Summer Olympics basketball tournament
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surface form:
Olympic Games women’s basketball tournament
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| hasCoachedLeague | Women’s National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| hasCoachedTeam |
Australia women’s national basketball team
ⓘ
China women's national basketball team ⓘ
surface form:
China women’s national basketball team
Great Britain women’s national basketball team ⓘ New Zealand women’s national basketball team ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
coaching professionally in the WNBA
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leading multiple national women’s teams at the Olympics ⓘ |
| notableFor |
coaching in professional women’s basketball leagues
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coaching women’s national basketball teams at the Olympics ⓘ |
| occupation | basketball coach ⓘ |
| 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: Tom Maher Description of subject: Tom Maher is an accomplished Australian basketball coach renowned for leading multiple national women’s teams at the Olympics and coaching professionally in leagues such as the WNBA.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.