Danny Tarkanian
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Danny Tarkanian is an American businessman and Republican political candidate from Nevada, known for multiple runs for Congress and other public offices.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Danny Tarkanian canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7352765 — 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: Danny Tarkanian Context triple: [Jerry Tarkanian, child, Danny Tarkanian]
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A.
Jerry Tarkanian
Jerry Tarkanian was a Hall of Fame college basketball coach best known for turning UNLV into a national powerhouse and winning the 1990 NCAA championship.
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B.
Don Waddell
Don Waddell is an American ice hockey executive best known for serving as the longtime general manager of the NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers and later holding senior management roles with other NHL franchises.
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C.
Pat Keady
Pat Keady is best known as the wife of longtime Purdue basketball coach and Hall of Famer Gene Keady.
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D.
Adolph Rupp
Adolph Rupp was a legendary American college basketball coach who led the University of Kentucky to multiple national championships and became one of the winningest coaches in NCAA history.
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E.
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.
- 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: Danny Tarkanian Target entity description: Danny Tarkanian is an American businessman and Republican political candidate from Nevada, known for multiple runs for Congress and other public offices.
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A.
Jerry Tarkanian
Jerry Tarkanian was a Hall of Fame college basketball coach best known for turning UNLV into a national powerhouse and winning the 1990 NCAA championship.
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B.
Don Waddell
Don Waddell is an American ice hockey executive best known for serving as the longtime general manager of the NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers and later holding senior management roles with other NHL franchises.
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C.
Pat Keady
Pat Keady is best known as the wife of longtime Purdue basketball coach and Hall of Famer Gene Keady.
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D.
Adolph Rupp
Adolph Rupp was a legendary American college basketball coach who led the University of Kentucky to multiple national championships and became one of the winningest coaches in NCAA history.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of San Diego School of Law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Armenian American ⓘ |
| familyName | Tarkanian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
business
ⓘ
politics ⓘ |
| givenName | Danny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProfession | real estate developer ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Jerry Tarkanian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole | candidate for public office ⓘ |
| isFrom | Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Republican Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Republican Party (United States)
|
| notableFamilyMember | Jerry Tarkanian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Republican political campaigns in Nevada
ⓘ
Republican primary campaigns in Nevada ⓘ multiple campaigns for United States Congress ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | conservative ⓘ |
| ranForOffice |
Nevada statewide office
ⓘ
United States House of Representatives NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Senate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence | Nevada politics ⓘ |
| stateOfPoliticalActivity | Nevada 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: Danny Tarkanian Description of subject: Danny Tarkanian is an American businessman and Republican political candidate from Nevada, known for multiple runs for Congress and other public offices.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.