Paul Jesperson
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Paul Jesperson is an American former college basketball player best known for his memorable half-court buzzer-beater in the 2016 NCAA Tournament while playing for the Northern Iowa Panthers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Jesperson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7982100 — 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: Paul Jesperson Context triple: [Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball, notablePlayer, Paul Jesperson]
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A.
Paul Jesson
Paul Jesson is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including a role in Mike Leigh’s biographical drama "Mr. Turner."
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B.
Paul Madvig
Paul Madvig is the politically connected fixer and central protagonist of the 1942 film noir "The Glass Key," navigating corruption, loyalty, and murder in a tense urban underworld.
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C.
Paul Christman
Paul Christman was an American football quarterback who became a prominent television sportscaster in the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
Philip Bruns
Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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E.
Paul Gilpin
Paul Gilpin is a cinematographer best known for his work on the adventure film "Tarzan and the Lost City."
- 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: Paul Jesperson Target entity description: Paul Jesperson is an American former college basketball player best known for his memorable half-court buzzer-beater in the 2016 NCAA Tournament while playing for the Northern Iowa Panthers.
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A.
Paul Jesson
Paul Jesson is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including a role in Mike Leigh’s biographical drama "Mr. Turner."
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B.
Paul Madvig
Paul Madvig is the politically connected fixer and central protagonist of the 1942 film noir "The Glass Key," navigating corruption, loyalty, and murder in a tense urban underworld.
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C.
Paul Christman
Paul Christman was an American football quarterback who became a prominent television sportscaster in the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
Philip Bruns
Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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E.
Paul Gilpin
Paul Gilpin is a cinematographer best known for his work on the adventure film "Tarzan and the Lost City."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball player
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| buzzerBeater | game-winning shot vs Texas in 2016 NCAA Tournament ⓘ |
| careerStatus | former college basketball player ⓘ |
| college | University of Northern Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collegeTeam | Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| educationLevel | college-educated ⓘ |
| formerCollege |
University of Virginia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | #13 (Northern Iowa Panthers) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leaguePlayedIn | NCAA Division I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | half-court buzzer-beater in the 2016 NCAA Tournament ⓘ |
| opponentTeam | Texas Longhorns men's basketball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playoffRound | 2016 NCAA Tournament first round NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| position | guard ⓘ |
| shotType | half-court shot ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| teamLevel | college ⓘ |
| teamRepresentedDuringBuzzerBeater | Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tournament | 2016 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transferStatus | transferred from Virginia to Northern Iowa ⓘ |
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: Paul Jesperson Description of subject: Paul Jesperson is an American former college basketball player best known for his memorable half-court buzzer-beater in the 2016 NCAA Tournament while playing for the Northern Iowa Panthers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.