James Scott Connors
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James Scott Connors is an American former world No. 1 professional tennis player renowned for his fierce competitiveness, powerful baseline game, and record-setting longevity on the men's tour.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Scott Connors canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5320361 — 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: James Scott Connors Context triple: [Jimmy Connors, fullName, James Scott Connors]
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A.
Martin Connor
Martin Connor is a film editor known for his work on the biographical war drama "The Railway Man."
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B.
Marc Connelly
Marc Connelly was an American playwright, director, and member of the Algonquin Round Table who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for "The Green Pastures."
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C.
Kevin Connor
Kevin Connor is a film editor known for his work on the satirical World War I musical film "Oh! What a Lovely War."
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D.
James Durkan
James Durkan is a notable individual recognized as a prominent bearer of the Durkan surname.
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E.
Connor Jessup
Connor Jessup is a Canadian actor and filmmaker best known for his roles in the TV series "Falling Skies" and "Locke & Key."
- 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: James Scott Connors Target entity description: James Scott Connors is an American former world No. 1 professional tennis player renowned for his fierce competitiveness, powerful baseline game, and record-setting longevity on the men's tour.
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A.
Martin Connor
Martin Connor is a film editor known for his work on the biographical war drama "The Railway Man."
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B.
Marc Connelly
Marc Connelly was an American playwright, director, and member of the Algonquin Round Table who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for "The Green Pastures."
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C.
Kevin Connor
Kevin Connor is a film editor known for his work on the satirical World War I musical film "Oh! What a Lovely War."
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D.
James Durkan
James Durkan is a notable individual recognized as a prominent bearer of the Durkan surname.
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E.
Connor Jessup
Connor Jessup is a Canadian actor and filmmaker best known for his roles in the TV series "Falling Skies" and "Locke & Key."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former world No. 1 tennis player
ⓘ
human ⓘ tennis player ⓘ |
| activeInDoubles | yes ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Jimmy Connors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ATPsinglesTitles | 109 ⓘ |
| backhandStyle | two-handed backhand ⓘ |
| bookAuthored | The Outsider: A Memoir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-09-02 ⓘ |
| era | Open Era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Connors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerWorldNo1 | ATP singles rankings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| grandSlamSinglesTitles | 8 ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction | International Tennis Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInductionYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| handedness | left-handed ⓘ |
| knownFor |
fierce competitiveness
ⓘ
powerful baseline game ⓘ record-setting longevity on the men's tour ⓘ |
| mother | Gloria Connors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | James Scott Connors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRival |
Björn Borg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ivan Lendl NERFINISHED ⓘ John McEnroe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| olympicParticipation | none (tennis not on Olympic program during his prime) ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | East St. Louis, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plays | men's singles ⓘ |
| recordHeld | most ATP men's singles titles in the Open Era ⓘ |
| residence | Santa Barbara, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retired | 1996 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | tennis ⓘ |
| spouse | Patti McGuire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | Playboy Playmate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| styleOfPlay | aggressive baseliner ⓘ |
| surfaceSpecialty |
grass courts
ⓘ
hard courts ⓘ |
| trainedBy | Gloria Connors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| turnedPro | 1972 ⓘ |
| weeksAtNo1 | 268 ⓘ |
| wonTournament |
Australian Open men's singles 1974
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
US Open men's singles 1974 NERFINISHED ⓘ US Open men's singles 1976 NERFINISHED ⓘ US Open men's singles 1978 NERFINISHED ⓘ US Open men's singles 1982 NERFINISHED ⓘ US Open men's singles 1983 NERFINISHED ⓘ Wimbledon men's singles 1974 NERFINISHED ⓘ Wimbledon men's singles 1982 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearEndNo1 |
1974
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1976 ⓘ 1977 ⓘ |
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: James Scott Connors Description of subject: James Scott Connors is an American former world No. 1 professional tennis player renowned for his fierce competitiveness, powerful baseline game, and record-setting longevity on the men's tour.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.