Bobby Smitheran
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Bobby Smitheran is a collegiate athletics administrator who serves as the athletic director overseeing the Long Beach State Beach women's basketball program.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bobby Smitheran canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9626905 — 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: Bobby Smitheran Context triple: [Long Beach State Beach women's basketball team, athleticDirector, Bobby Smitheran]
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A.
Bobby Elliott
Bobby Elliott is an English rock drummer best known for his long-time role in the influential band The Hollies.
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B.
Bobby Whitman
Bobby Whitman is a central character in the thriller film "Mindhunters," portrayed as one of the FBI profiler trainees trapped on a remote island during a deadly training exercise.
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C.
John O’May
John O’May is an actor known for his role in the Australian musical comedy film "Starstruck" (1982).
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D.
Jimmie Lyons
Jimmie Lyons was an American Negro league outfielder known for his speed, defense, and hitting during the early 20th century.
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E.
Roy Buchanan
Roy Buchanan was an influential American guitarist renowned for his emotive Telecaster tone and pioneering work in blues and rock music.
- 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: Bobby Smitheran Target entity description: Bobby Smitheran is a collegiate athletics administrator who serves as the athletic director overseeing the Long Beach State Beach women's basketball program.
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A.
Bobby Elliott
Bobby Elliott is an English rock drummer best known for his long-time role in the influential band The Hollies.
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B.
Bobby Whitman
Bobby Whitman is a central character in the thriller film "Mindhunters," portrayed as one of the FBI profiler trainees trapped on a remote island during a deadly training exercise.
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C.
John O’May
John O’May is an actor known for his role in the Australian musical comedy film "Starstruck" (1982).
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D.
Jimmie Lyons
Jimmie Lyons was an American Negro league outfielder known for his speed, defense, and hitting during the early 20th century.
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E.
Roy Buchanan
Roy Buchanan was an influential American guitarist renowned for his emotive Telecaster tone and pioneering work in blues and rock music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
athletic director
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| employer |
California State University, Long Beach
NERFINISHED
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Long Beach State Beach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | college athletics administration ⓘ |
| notableFor | overseeing the Long Beach State Beach women's basketball program ⓘ |
| occupation | collegiate athletics administrator ⓘ |
| position | athletic director ⓘ |
| sportsDisciplineAdministered | women's basketball ⓘ |
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: Bobby Smitheran Description of subject: Bobby Smitheran is a collegiate athletics administrator who serves as the athletic director overseeing the Long Beach State Beach women's basketball program.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.