Emeka Okafor
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Emeka Okafor is a former American professional basketball center best known for starring at UConn, where he led the Huskies to the 2004 NCAA championship, and for being the second overall pick in the 2004 NBA Draft.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Emeka Okafor canonical | 4 |
| Emeka Okafor (distant cousin) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5883344 — 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: Emeka Okafor Context triple: [Jim Calhoun, coachOf, Emeka Okafor]
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A.
Ngozi Oduah
Ngozi Oduah is a person bearing the given name Ngozi, likely of Igbo or broader Nigerian origin.
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B.
Michael Obiora
Michael Obiora is a British actor and author best known for his roles in television series such as "Hotel Babylon," "Casualty," and "Grange Hill."
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C.
Ekpang Nkukwo
Ekpang Nkukwo is a traditional Nigerian one-pot dish of grated cocoyam and water yam wrapped in cocoyam leaves and cooked with assorted meats, fish, and palm oil, especially associated with the Efik and Ibibio people of southern Nigeria.
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D.
Emeka Anyaoku
Emeka Anyaoku is a Nigerian diplomat and statesman who served as the third Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations from 1990 to 2000.
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E.
Obi Ngwa
Obi Ngwa is a local government area in Abia State, southeastern Nigeria, known for its predominantly Igbo population and agrarian communities.
- 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: Emeka Okafor Target entity description: Emeka Okafor is a former American professional basketball center best known for starring at UConn, where he led the Huskies to the 2004 NCAA championship, and for being the second overall pick in the 2004 NBA Draft.
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A.
Ngozi Oduah
Ngozi Oduah is a person bearing the given name Ngozi, likely of Igbo or broader Nigerian origin.
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B.
Michael Obiora
Michael Obiora is a British actor and author best known for his roles in television series such as "Hotel Babylon," "Casualty," and "Grange Hill."
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C.
Ekpang Nkukwo
Ekpang Nkukwo is a traditional Nigerian one-pot dish of grated cocoyam and water yam wrapped in cocoyam leaves and cooked with assorted meats, fish, and palm oil, especially associated with the Efik and Ibibio people of southern Nigeria.
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D.
Emeka Anyaoku
Emeka Anyaoku is a Nigerian diplomat and statesman who served as the third Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations from 1990 to 2000.
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E.
Obi Ngwa
Obi Ngwa is a local government area in Abia State, southeastern Nigeria, known for its predominantly Igbo population and agrarian communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
National Basketball Association player
ⓘ
basketball player ⓘ center ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academic All-America of the Year
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Big East Player of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ NBA All-Rookie First Team NERFINISHED ⓘ NBA Rookie of the Year Award NERFINISHED ⓘ NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collegeTeam | Connecticut Huskies men's basketball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1982-09-28 ⓘ |
| degreeEarned | finance degree from University of Connecticut ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Charlotte Bobcats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| draftLeague |
National Basketball Association
ⓘ
surface form:
NBA
|
| draftPickNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| draftRound | 1 ⓘ |
| draftYear | 2004 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Igbo people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Okafor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | finance ⓘ |
| givenName | Chukwuemeka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Jahlil Okafor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height | 6 ft 10 in ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 50 ⓘ |
| league | National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Charlotte Bobcats
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Connecticut Huskies men's basketball NERFINISHED ⓘ Delaware 87ers NERFINISHED ⓘ New Orleans Hornets NERFINISHED ⓘ Philadelphia 76ers organization NERFINISHED ⓘ Phoenix Suns NERFINISHED ⓘ Ulsan Hyundai Mobis Phoebus NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington Wizards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | leading UConn to the 2004 NCAA men's basketball championship ⓘ |
| occupation |
basketball player
ⓘ
professional athlete ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
2004 NBA Draft
ⓘ
2004 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsInPosition | center ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
center
ⓘ
power forward ⓘ |
| relativeType | cousin of Jahlil Okafor ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| 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: Emeka Okafor Description of subject: Emeka Okafor is a former American professional basketball center best known for starring at UConn, where he led the Huskies to the 2004 NCAA championship, and for being the second overall pick in the 2004 NBA Draft.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Emeka Okafor (distant cousin)