Jason Collins
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Jason Collins is a retired American professional basketball player best known for becoming the first openly gay active player in the NBA.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jason Collins canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4645194 — 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: Jason Collins Context triple: [Collins, notableBearer, Jason Collins]
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A.
Benjamin Everett Jordan
Benjamin Everett Jordan was a mid-20th-century Democratic U.S. Senator from North Carolina known for his influence on agricultural and textile policy.
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B.
Michael Bennett
Michael Bennett was an influential American theater director and choreographer best known for shaping the modern Broadway musical with works like "A Chorus Line."
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C.
Cooke Maroney
Cooke Maroney is an American art gallery director known for his work in the contemporary art world and his marriage to actress Jennifer Lawrence.
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D.
Matthew Richardson
Matthew Richardson is a former Australian rules footballer widely regarded as one of Richmond Football Club’s greatest forwards and a fan favourite in the AFL.
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E.
Phil Jordan
Phil Jordan is a musician best known as a former member of the American rock band No Doubt.
- 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: Jason Collins Target entity description: Jason Collins is a retired American professional basketball player best known for becoming the first openly gay active player in the NBA.
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A.
Benjamin Everett Jordan
Benjamin Everett Jordan was a mid-20th-century Democratic U.S. Senator from North Carolina known for his influence on agricultural and textile policy.
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B.
Michael Bennett
Michael Bennett was an influential American theater director and choreographer best known for shaping the modern Broadway musical with works like "A Chorus Line."
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C.
Cooke Maroney
Cooke Maroney is an American art gallery director known for his work in the contemporary art world and his marriage to actress Jennifer Lawrence.
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D.
Matthew Richardson
Matthew Richardson is a former Australian rules footballer widely regarded as one of Richmond Football Club’s greatest forwards and a fan favourite in the AFL.
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E.
Phil Jordan
Phil Jordan is a musician best known as a former member of the American rock band No Doubt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
LGBT person
ⓘ
National Basketball Association player ⓘ basketball player ⓘ gay man ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Houston Rockets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| draftLeague |
National Basketball Association
ⓘ
surface form:
NBA
|
| draftPickNumber | 18 ⓘ |
| draftRound | first round ⓘ |
| draftYear | 2001 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Stanford University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | autobiographical writing ⓘ |
| givenName | Jason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasParticipatedIn |
National Basketball Association season
ⓘ
professional sports ⓘ |
| hasRole |
LGBT rights advocate
ⓘ
sports pioneer ⓘ |
| hasTwinSibling | Jarron Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| league | National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Atlanta Hawks
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Boston Celtics ⓘ Brooklyn Nets NERFINISHED ⓘ Memphis Grizzlies NERFINISHED ⓘ Minnesota Timberwolves NERFINISHED ⓘ New Jersey Nets NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington Wizards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first openly gay active NBA player ⓘ |
| notableWork | public coming-out essay in Sports Illustrated ⓘ |
| occupation |
basketball player
ⓘ
professional athlete ⓘ |
| playedCollegeBasketballFor | Stanford Cardinal men's basketball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedIn | NBA playoffs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | center ⓘ |
| relative | Jarron Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| retiredFrom | professional basketball ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| sibling | Jarron Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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: Jason Collins Description of subject: Jason Collins is a retired American professional basketball player best known for becoming the first openly gay active player in the NBA.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.