Dianne Bock Stern
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Dianne Bock Stern is the wife of the late David Stern, the longtime commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dianne Bock Stern canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3907129 — 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: Dianne Bock Stern Context triple: [David Stern, spouse, Dianne Bock Stern]
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A.
Nancy Lieberman
Nancy Lieberman is a pioneering American basketball player and coach, widely regarded as one of the greatest figures in women's basketball history and a trailblazer for women in the sport.
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B.
Janet Margolin
Janet Margolin was an American film and television actress best known for her roles in movies such as "David and Lisa" and Woody Allen's "Annie Hall."
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C.
Paula Weinstein
Paula Weinstein was an American film producer and studio executive known for overseeing acclaimed dramas and major Hollywood productions.
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D.
Barbara Rubin
Barbara Rubin was an experimental filmmaker and performance artist of the 1960s New York underground scene, known for her avant-garde work and collaborations with figures like Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground.
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E.
Carolee Joyce Winstein
Carolee Joyce Winstein is an American neuroscientist and rehabilitation researcher known for her work on motor control and recovery after neurological injury.
- 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: Dianne Bock Stern Target entity description: Dianne Bock Stern is the wife of the late David Stern, the longtime commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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A.
Nancy Lieberman
Nancy Lieberman is a pioneering American basketball player and coach, widely regarded as one of the greatest figures in women's basketball history and a trailblazer for women in the sport.
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B.
Janet Margolin
Janet Margolin was an American film and television actress best known for her roles in movies such as "David and Lisa" and Woody Allen's "Annie Hall."
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C.
Paula Weinstein
Paula Weinstein was an American film producer and studio executive known for overseeing acclaimed dramas and major Hollywood productions.
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D.
Barbara Rubin
Barbara Rubin was an experimental filmmaker and performance artist of the 1960s New York underground scene, known for her avant-garde work and collaborations with figures like Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground.
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E.
Carolee Joyce Winstein
Carolee Joyce Winstein is an American neuroscientist and rehabilitation researcher known for her work on motor control and recovery after neurological injury.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ professional sports league ⓘ sports executive position ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | National Basketball Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-01-01 ⓘ |
| employer | National Basketball Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | basketball administration ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widow ⓘ |
| name | Dianne Bock Stern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of former NBA commissioner David Stern
ⓘ
serving as commissioner of the NBA from 1984 to 2014 ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
sports executive ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Commissioner of the National Basketball Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | David Stern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| spouse |
David Stern
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dianne Bock Stern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseLifeEvent | David Stern died on January 1, 2020 ⓘ |
| spouseOfOccupation | Commissioner of the National Basketball Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Dianne Bock Stern Description of subject: Dianne Bock Stern is the wife of the late David Stern, the longtime commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.