Gary Payton
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Gary Payton is a Hall of Fame NBA point guard renowned for his elite perimeter defense, playmaking, and long tenure as the emotional leader of the Seattle SuperSonics.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gary Payton canonical | 13 |
| Gary Payton II | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T470185 — 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: Gary Payton Context triple: [Seattle SuperSonics, notablePlayer, Gary Payton]
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A.
Ray Allen
Ray Allen is a Hall of Fame American shooting guard renowned as one of the greatest three-point shooters in NBA history, winning championships with the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat.
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Brandon Roy
Brandon Roy is a former NBA shooting guard and three-time All-Star best known for his standout years with the Portland Trail Blazers before knee injuries cut his career short.
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C.
Kevin Terry
Kevin Terry is an American soccer referee best known for officiating at the highest levels of U.S. professional soccer, including Major League Soccer championship matches.
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Clyde Drexler
Clyde Drexler is a Hall of Fame shooting guard renowned for his high-flying athleticism and starring role with the Portland Trail Blazers and Houston Rockets, with whom he won an NBA championship.
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E.
Rasheed Wallace
Rasheed Wallace is a former NBA All-Star power forward known for his versatile scoring, defensive intensity, and fiery on-court demeanor, who won a championship with the Detroit Pistons.
- 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: Gary Payton Target entity description: Gary Payton is a Hall of Fame NBA point guard renowned for his elite perimeter defense, playmaking, and long tenure as the emotional leader of the Seattle SuperSonics.
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A.
Ray Allen
Ray Allen is a Hall of Fame American shooting guard renowned as one of the greatest three-point shooters in NBA history, winning championships with the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat.
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B.
Brandon Roy
Brandon Roy is a former NBA shooting guard and three-time All-Star best known for his standout years with the Portland Trail Blazers before knee injuries cut his career short.
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C.
Kevin Terry
Kevin Terry is an American soccer referee best known for officiating at the highest levels of U.S. professional soccer, including Major League Soccer championship matches.
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D.
Clyde Drexler
Clyde Drexler is a Hall of Fame shooting guard renowned for his high-flying athleticism and starring role with the Portland Trail Blazers and Houston Rockets, with whom he won an NBA championship.
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E.
Rasheed Wallace
Rasheed Wallace is a former NBA All-Star power forward known for his versatile scoring, defensive intensity, and fiery on-court demeanor, who won a championship with the Detroit Pistons.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Gary Payton Description of subject: Gary Payton is a Hall of Fame NBA point guard renowned for his elite perimeter defense, playmaking, and long tenure as the emotional leader of the Seattle SuperSonics.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Gary Payton II
subject surface form:
Shawn Kemp