Scott Wedman
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Scott Wedman is a former American professional basketball player best known as a sharpshooting forward and two-time NBA champion with the Boston Celtics in the 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scott Wedman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6273934 — 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: Scott Wedman Context triple: [Colorado Buffaloes men's basketball, notableAlumnus, Scott Wedman]
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A.
Tom Wedloe
Tom Wedloe is a central character in the family adventure series "Gentle Ben," portrayed as the father of Mark Wedloe and a wildlife officer living in the Florida Everglades.
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B.
Scott Yagemann
Scott Yagemann is a screenwriter best known for writing the gritty 1997 crime drama film "One Eight Seven," starring Samuel L. Jackson.
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C.
Scott Gill
Scott Gill is a British architect and the long-term partner and husband of actor and singer John Barrowman.
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D.
Scott Wittman
Scott Wittman is an American lyricist, director, and writer best known for his Tony-winning Broadway collaborations with Marc Shaiman on shows like "Hairspray" and "Catch Me If You Can."
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E.
Scott Ehrlich
Scott Ehrlich is a notable individual recognized for his contributions in his professional field, though specific widely known details about his work are not clearly established from the given information.
- 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: Scott Wedman Target entity description: Scott Wedman is a former American professional basketball player best known as a sharpshooting forward and two-time NBA champion with the Boston Celtics in the 1980s.
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A.
Tom Wedloe
Tom Wedloe is a central character in the family adventure series "Gentle Ben," portrayed as the father of Mark Wedloe and a wildlife officer living in the Florida Everglades.
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B.
Scott Yagemann
Scott Yagemann is a screenwriter best known for writing the gritty 1997 crime drama film "One Eight Seven," starring Samuel L. Jackson.
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C.
Scott Gill
Scott Gill is a British architect and the long-term partner and husband of actor and singer John Barrowman.
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D.
Scott Wittman
Scott Wittman is an American lyricist, director, and writer best known for his Tony-winning Broadway collaborations with Marc Shaiman on shows like "Hairspray" and "Catch Me If You Can."
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E.
Scott Ehrlich
Scott Ehrlich is a notable individual recognized for his contributions in his professional field, though specific widely known details about his work are not clearly established from the given information.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
National Basketball Association player
ⓘ
basketball player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| AllStarSeason |
1979–80
ⓘ
1980–81 ⓘ |
| AllStarSelection | NBA All-Star NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Harper, Kansas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| careerEndYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| careerStartYear | 1974 ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | University of Colorado Boulder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collegeTeam | Colorado Buffaloes men's basketball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-07-29 ⓘ |
| draftLeague |
National Basketball Association
ⓘ
surface form:
NBA
|
| draftPickNumber | 6 ⓘ |
| draftRound | 2 ⓘ |
| draftTeam | Kansas City–Omaha Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| draftYear | 1974 ⓘ |
| familyName | Wedman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Scott Dean Wedman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height | 6 ft 7 in ⓘ |
| heightInMeters | 2.01 ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber |
2
ⓘ
3 ⓘ 8 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
outside shooting
ⓘ
three-point shooting ⓘ |
| league | National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| NBAChampionSeason |
1983–84
ⓘ
1985–86 ⓘ |
| NBAChampionships | 2 ⓘ |
| notableTeammate |
Kevin McHale
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Larry Bird NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Parish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedForTeam |
Boston Celtics
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cleveland Cavaliers NERFINISHED ⓘ Kansas City Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ Kansas City–Omaha Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInEra |
1970s NBA
ⓘ
1980s NBA ⓘ |
| position |
power forward
ⓘ
small forward ⓘ |
| professionalDebutLeague | NBA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| professionalDebutYear | 1974 ⓘ |
| roleOnTeam | sixth man ⓘ |
| shootingHand | right ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| wonChampionshipWith | Boston Celtics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Scott Wedman Description of subject: Scott Wedman is a former American professional basketball player best known as a sharpshooting forward and two-time NBA champion with the Boston Celtics in the 1980s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.