Mack Robinson
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Mack Robinson was an American sprinter best known for winning the silver medal in the 200-meter race at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, finishing behind Jesse Owens.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mack Robinson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T428593 — 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: Mack Robinson Context triple: [1936 Summer Olympics, notableAthlete, Mack Robinson]
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A.
Henry Armstrong
Henry Armstrong was an American professional boxer renowned for simultaneously holding world titles in three different weight divisions during the late 1930s.
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B.
Rallo Tubbs
Rallo Tubbs is a precocious, sharp-tongued young boy and one of the central comedic characters in the animated sitcom "The Cleveland Show."
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C.
Gil Hodges
Gil Hodges was a renowned Major League Baseball first baseman and later manager, best known for his power hitting with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers and for managing the 1969 "Miracle Mets" to a World Series title.
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D.
Bill Cobbs
Bill Cobbs is an American character actor known for his prolific supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in movies like "Night at the Museum," "Demolition Man," and "The Hudsucker Proxy."
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E.
Eddie Collins
Eddie Collins was a Hall of Fame second baseman and one of early 20th-century baseball’s greatest players, renowned for his hitting, speed, and leadership on multiple World Series–winning teams.
- 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: Mack Robinson Target entity description: Mack Robinson was an American sprinter best known for winning the silver medal in the 200-meter race at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, finishing behind Jesse Owens.
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A.
Henry Armstrong
Henry Armstrong was an American professional boxer renowned for simultaneously holding world titles in three different weight divisions during the late 1930s.
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B.
Rallo Tubbs
Rallo Tubbs is a precocious, sharp-tongued young boy and one of the central comedic characters in the animated sitcom "The Cleveland Show."
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C.
Gil Hodges
Gil Hodges was a renowned Major League Baseball first baseman and later manager, best known for his power hitting with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers and for managing the 1969 "Miracle Mets" to a World Series title.
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D.
Bill Cobbs
Bill Cobbs is an American character actor known for his prolific supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in movies like "Night at the Museum," "Demolition Man," and "The Hudsucker Proxy."
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E.
Eddie Collins
Eddie Collins was a Hall of Fame second baseman and one of early 20th-century baseball’s greatest players, renowned for his hitting, speed, and leadership on multiple World Series–winning teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic silver medalist
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athlete ⓘ human ⓘ sprinter ⓘ |
| competitionClass | 200 metres ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1914-07-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2000-03-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Pasadena Junior College
ⓘ
surface form:
Pasadena City College
|
| ethnicGroup | African American ⓘ |
| familyName | Robinson ⓘ |
| givenName | Mack ⓘ |
| medal | silver medal ⓘ |
| medalFor | 200-metre race at the 1936 Berlin Olympics ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Team USA
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Olympic track and field team
|
| notableAchievement | finished second to Jesse Owens in the 200-meter race at the 1936 Berlin Olympics ⓘ |
| notableWork | silver medal in 200-meter race at the 1936 Berlin Olympics ⓘ |
| occupation |
athlete
ⓘ
sprinter ⓘ |
| opponent | Jesse Owens ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1936 Summer Olympics (Berlin)
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surface form:
1936 Summer Olympics
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| placeOfBirth | Cairo, Georgia, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Pasadena
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surface form:
Pasadena, California, United States
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| relative | Jackie Robinson ⓘ |
| represented | United States at the 1936 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| residence |
Pasadena
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surface form:
Pasadena, California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Jackie Robinson ⓘ |
| sport |
sprinting
ⓘ
track and field ⓘ |
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: Mack Robinson Description of subject: Mack Robinson was an American sprinter best known for winning the silver medal in the 200-meter race at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, finishing behind Jesse Owens.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
1936 Summer Olympics
subject surface form:
Inglewood Park Cemetery