Kate Starbird
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Kate Starbird is a former American basketball star and All-American guard who led Stanford University to multiple deep NCAA Tournament runs in the 1990s before playing professionally and later becoming an academic researcher.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kate Starbird canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T378698 — 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: Kate Starbird Context triple: [Stanford Cardinal women’s basketball, notablePlayerAlumna, Kate Starbird]
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A.
Judith Nelson
Judith Nelson was an American soprano known for her pioneering work and acclaimed performances in the early music and Baroque repertoire.
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B.
Linda Salzman Sagan
Linda Salzman Sagan is an American artist and writer best known for co-designing the Pioneer plaque and contributing to other interstellar message projects alongside Carl Sagan.
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C.
Suzanne Goldberg
Suzanne Goldberg is a prominent civil rights lawyer and legal scholar known for her work on free speech and equality issues in the United States.
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D.
Liz Imbrie
Liz Imbrie is a witty, sardonic magazine reporter who serves as a key supporting character and romantic foil in the musical film "High Society."
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E.
Katherine Hudson
Katherine Hudson was the wife of English explorer Henry Hudson, known primarily through historical records of his voyages and family.
- 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: Kate Starbird Target entity description: Kate Starbird is a former American basketball star and All-American guard who led Stanford University to multiple deep NCAA Tournament runs in the 1990s before playing professionally and later becoming an academic researcher.
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A.
Judith Nelson
Judith Nelson was an American soprano known for her pioneering work and acclaimed performances in the early music and Baroque repertoire.
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B.
Linda Salzman Sagan
Linda Salzman Sagan is an American artist and writer best known for co-designing the Pioneer plaque and contributing to other interstellar message projects alongside Carl Sagan.
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C.
Suzanne Goldberg
Suzanne Goldberg is a prominent civil rights lawyer and legal scholar known for her work on free speech and equality issues in the United States.
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D.
Liz Imbrie
Liz Imbrie is a witty, sardonic magazine reporter who serves as a key supporting character and romantic foil in the musical film "High Society."
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E.
Katherine Hudson
Katherine Hudson was the wife of English explorer Henry Hudson, known primarily through historical records of his voyages and family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
ⓘ
basketball player ⓘ human ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | human-centered design and engineering ⓘ |
| awardReceived | All-American ⓘ |
| careerTransition | from professional basketball to academic research ⓘ |
| countryForSport | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Stanford University ⓘ |
| employer | University of Washington ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
crisis informatics
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human-computer interaction ⓘ misinformation studies ⓘ |
| genreOfOccupation |
college basketball player
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professional basketball player ⓘ |
| givenName | Kate ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Stanford Cardinal women’s basketball
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surface form:
Stanford Cardinal women's basketball
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| name | Kate Starbird self-link ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | led Stanford to deep NCAA Tournament runs in the 1990s ⓘ |
| notableWork | research on online misinformation ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
ⓘ
basketball player ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| participantIn |
NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament
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surface form:
NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament
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| playedFor |
Stanford Cardinal women’s basketball
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surface form:
Stanford Cardinal women's basketball team
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| positionHeld | associate professor ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | guard ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
crisis-related social media use
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disinformation ⓘ online rumors ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Seattle, Washington, United States
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surface form:
Seattle, Washington
|
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: Kate Starbird Description of subject: Kate Starbird is a former American basketball star and All-American guard who led Stanford University to multiple deep NCAA Tournament runs in the 1990s before playing professionally and later becoming an academic researcher.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.