Larry Micheaux
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Larry Micheaux is a former American basketball player best known as a standout forward for the University of Houston’s “Phi Slama Jama” teams in the early 1980s who later played professionally in the NBA and overseas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Larry Micheaux canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6079013 — 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: Larry Micheaux Context triple: [Guy Lewis, notableStudent, Larry Micheaux]
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A.
Horace Julian Bond
Horace Julian Bond was a prominent American civil rights leader, politician, and educator who co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and served for decades in the Georgia legislature.
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B.
Rudolph Fisher
Rudolph Fisher was a prominent Harlem Renaissance writer and physician known for his short stories, novels, and contributions to African American literature.
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C.
Richard Durham
Richard Durham was an influential African American writer and radio dramatist best known for his socially conscious scripts and biographical works, including the story that inspired the film "The Greatest" about Muhammad Ali.
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D.
Clarence Williams
Clarence Williams was an influential early jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader who played a key role in developing and popularizing New Orleans and Harlem jazz in the 1920s and 1930s.
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E.
Dudley Randall
Dudley Randall was an influential African American poet, publisher, and librarian best known for championing Black literature and voices during the Black Arts Movement.
- 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: Larry Micheaux Target entity description: Larry Micheaux is a former American basketball player best known as a standout forward for the University of Houston’s “Phi Slama Jama” teams in the early 1980s who later played professionally in the NBA and overseas.
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A.
Horace Julian Bond
Horace Julian Bond was a prominent American civil rights leader, politician, and educator who co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and served for decades in the Georgia legislature.
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B.
Rudolph Fisher
Rudolph Fisher was a prominent Harlem Renaissance writer and physician known for his short stories, novels, and contributions to African American literature.
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C.
Richard Durham
Richard Durham was an influential African American writer and radio dramatist best known for his socially conscious scripts and biographical works, including the story that inspired the film "The Greatest" about Muhammad Ali.
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D.
Clarence Williams
Clarence Williams was an influential early jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader who played a key role in developing and popularizing New Orleans and Harlem jazz in the 1920s and 1930s.
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E.
Dudley Randall
Dudley Randall was an influential African American poet, publisher, and librarian best known for championing Black literature and voices during the Black Arts Movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball player
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human ⓘ |
| collegeBasketballConference | Southwest Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collegeCareerEnd | early 1980s ⓘ |
| collegeCareerStart | late 1970s ⓘ |
| collegeTeam | Houston Cougars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Chicago Bulls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Houston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Micheaux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Larry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | in the 40s during college ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| leagueDraftedIn | NBA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Houston Cougars men's basketball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Larry Micheaux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | member of University of Houston Phi Slama Jama teams ⓘ |
| occupation |
basketball coach
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professional basketball player ⓘ |
| participantOf | Phi Slama Jama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Caja de Álava (Baskonia predecessor)
NERFINISHED
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Kansas City Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ Limoges CSP NERFINISHED ⓘ Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Milwaukee Bucks NERFINISHED ⓘ Pallacanestro Varese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInLeague |
NCAA Division I men's basketball
NERFINISHED
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National Basketball Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedProfessionallyIn |
France
NERFINISHED
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Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
forward
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power forward ⓘ |
| residence | Houston, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| styleOfPlay |
interior defense
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strong rebounding ⓘ |
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: Larry Micheaux Description of subject: Larry Micheaux is a former American basketball player best known as a standout forward for the University of Houston’s “Phi Slama Jama” teams in the early 1980s who later played professionally in the NBA and overseas.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.