Don James
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Don James was a highly successful American college football coach best known for leading the University of Washington Huskies to national prominence, including a share of the 1991 national championship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Don James canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7068532 — 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: Don James Context triple: [Washington Huskies football, notableCoach, Don James]
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A.
Del James
Del James is an American writer and musician best known for his work with Guns N’ Roses, including short stories that inspired some of the band’s iconic music videos.
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B.
B.J. Thomas
B.J. Thomas was an American pop and country singer best known for hits like "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" and "Hooked on a Feeling."
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C.
Scott C. Chapman
Scott C. Chapman is an astronomer known for his work on nearby galaxies and the discovery of faint dwarf galaxies such as Andromeda XIV.
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D.
Will Jennings
Will Jennings is an American songwriter and lyricist best known for penning the lyrics to numerous hit songs, including the Oscar-winning "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic.
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E.
Johnny Lee Bench
Johnny Lee Bench is a Hall of Fame American baseball catcher best known for his stellar career with the Cincinnati Reds and his role in the "Big Red Machine" of the 1970s.
- 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: Don James Target entity description: Don James was a highly successful American college football coach best known for leading the University of Washington Huskies to national prominence, including a share of the 1991 national championship.
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A.
Del James
Del James is an American writer and musician best known for his work with Guns N’ Roses, including short stories that inspired some of the band’s iconic music videos.
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B.
B.J. Thomas
B.J. Thomas was an American pop and country singer best known for hits like "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" and "Hooked on a Feeling."
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C.
Scott C. Chapman
Scott C. Chapman is an astronomer known for his work on nearby galaxies and the discovery of faint dwarf galaxies such as Andromeda XIV.
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D.
Will Jennings
Will Jennings is an American songwriter and lyricist best known for penning the lyrics to numerous hit songs, including the Oscar-winning "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic.
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E.
Johnny Lee Bench
Johnny Lee Bench is a Hall of Fame American baseball catcher best known for his stellar career with the Cincinnati Reds and his role in the "Big Red Machine" of the 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football coach
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human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
AFCA Coach of the Year
NERFINISHED
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Pac-10 Coach of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Bear Bryant Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pancreatic cancer ⓘ |
| coachedInBowlGame |
Aloha Bowl
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Orange Bowl NERFINISHED ⓘ Rose Bowl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coachedNotablePlayer |
Jack Lambert
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Napoleon Kaufman NERFINISHED ⓘ Warren Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conferenceChampionship | Pac-10 Conference titles with Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1932-12-31 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2013-10-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Miami University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Kent State University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime |
1974 (head coach at Kent State)
ⓘ
1992 (head coach at Washington) ⓘ |
| familyName | James NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Donald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction | College Football Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInductionYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| headCoachOf |
Kent State Golden Flashes football
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington Huskies football NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Miami RedHawks football NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Army ⓘ |
| nickname | The Dawgfather NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | 1991 Washington Huskies football season NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football coach
ⓘ
American football player ⓘ |
| overallRecord | 178–76–3 (college head coach) ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Massillon, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Kirkland, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | quarterback ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Seattle, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Carol James NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime |
1971 (head coach at Kent State)
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1975 (head coach at Washington) ⓘ |
| teamNationalChampionship | 1991 NCAA Division I-A football season (shared) ⓘ |
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: Don James Description of subject: Don James was a highly successful American college football coach best known for leading the University of Washington Huskies to national prominence, including a share of the 1991 national championship.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Washington Huskies football