Rod Dedeaux
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Rod Dedeaux was a legendary American college baseball coach who built the USC Trojans into a national powerhouse, winning a record number of NCAA championships.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rod Dedeaux canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7099457 — 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: Rod Dedeaux Context triple: [USC Trojans baseball, notableCoach, Rod Dedeaux]
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A.
Bill Belew
Bill Belew was an American fashion and costume designer best known for creating many of Elvis Presley’s iconic stage outfits and jumpsuits.
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B.
Lute Olson
Lute Olson was a Hall of Fame American college basketball coach best known for transforming the University of Arizona into a national powerhouse and winning the 1997 NCAA championship.
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C.
Ed Gagliardi
Ed Gagliardi was an American bass guitarist best known as the original bassist for the rock band Foreigner during their late 1970s success.
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D.
Tubby Smith
Tubby Smith is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of Kentucky to the 1998 NCAA national championship and for his long, successful career across multiple major programs.
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E.
Al McGuire
Al McGuire was a Hall of Fame American college basketball coach best known for leading Marquette University to the 1977 NCAA championship and later becoming a popular television commentator.
- 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: Rod Dedeaux Target entity description: Rod Dedeaux was a legendary American college baseball coach who built the USC Trojans into a national powerhouse, winning a record number of NCAA championships.
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A.
Bill Belew
Bill Belew was an American fashion and costume designer best known for creating many of Elvis Presley’s iconic stage outfits and jumpsuits.
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B.
Lute Olson
Lute Olson was a Hall of Fame American college basketball coach best known for transforming the University of Arizona into a national powerhouse and winning the 1997 NCAA championship.
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C.
Ed Gagliardi
Ed Gagliardi was an American bass guitarist best known as the original bassist for the rock band Foreigner during their late 1970s success.
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D.
Tubby Smith
Tubby Smith is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of Kentucky to the 1998 NCAA national championship and for his long, successful career across multiple major programs.
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E.
Al McGuire
Al McGuire was a Hall of Fame American college basketball coach best known for leading Marquette University to the 1977 NCAA championship and later becoming a popular television commentator.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American baseball player
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baseball coach ⓘ college baseball coach ⓘ human ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| coachedTeam | USC Trojans baseball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1914-02-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2006-01-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Louisiana State University
NERFINISHED
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University of Southern California ⓘ |
| employer |
USC Trojans baseball
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Southern California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1986 (USC head coach) ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Cajun ⓘ |
| familyName | Dedeaux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | college baseball coaching ⓘ |
| fullName | Raoul Martial Dedeaux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Raoul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction |
College Baseball Hall of Fame
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
USC Athletic Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honor | baseball field at USC named Dedeaux Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | college baseball coaching in the United States ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Brooklyn Dodgers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Rod NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
built USC Trojans into a national college baseball powerhouse
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led USC to five consecutive NCAA baseball titles from 1970 to 1974 ⓘ won 11 NCAA baseball championships as head coach at USC ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Fred Lynn
NERFINISHED
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Mark McGwire NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Seaver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | USC Trojans baseball program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfNCAAChampionshipsWonAsCoach | 11 ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball coach
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baseball player ⓘ college baseball coach ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Glendale, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | shortstop ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Southern California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| spouse | Helen Dedeaux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1942 (USC head coach) ⓘ |
| totalWinsAsCollegeCoach | over 1300 ⓘ |
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: Rod Dedeaux Description of subject: Rod Dedeaux was a legendary American college baseball coach who built the USC Trojans into a national powerhouse, winning a record number of NCAA championships.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.