Barry Davis
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Barry Davis is a former American freestyle wrestler and Olympic medalist who became one of the University of Iowa’s most accomplished competitors and later a longtime collegiate coach.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Barry Davis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10091963 — 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: Barry Davis Context triple: [Iowa Hawkeyes wrestling team, notableAlumnus, Barry Davis]
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A.
Barry Andrews
Barry Andrews is an English keyboardist and songwriter best known for his work with the new wave bands XTC and Shriekback.
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B.
Barry Jones
Barry Jones was a British character actor known for his distinguished stage and film career in the mid-20th century, often portraying scholarly or aristocratic figures.
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C.
Barry Reynolds
Barry Reynolds is a British guitarist and songwriter best known for his collaborations with Grace Jones and contributions to her influential 1980s albums.
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D.
Barry Bishop
Barry Bishop was an American mountaineer and National Geographic photographer best known for his pioneering high-altitude climbs, including being part of the first American team to summit Mount Everest.
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E.
Ben Durrant
Ben Durrant is a musician best known as a member of the indie supergroup Gayngs.
- 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: Barry Davis Target entity description: Barry Davis is a former American freestyle wrestler and Olympic medalist who became one of the University of Iowa’s most accomplished competitors and later a longtime collegiate coach.
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A.
Barry Andrews
Barry Andrews is an English keyboardist and songwriter best known for his work with the new wave bands XTC and Shriekback.
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B.
Barry Jones
Barry Jones was a British character actor known for his distinguished stage and film career in the mid-20th century, often portraying scholarly or aristocratic figures.
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C.
Barry Reynolds
Barry Reynolds is a British guitarist and songwriter best known for his collaborations with Grace Jones and contributions to her influential 1980s albums.
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D.
Barry Bishop
Barry Bishop was an American mountaineer and National Geographic photographer best known for his pioneering high-altitude climbs, including being part of the first American team to summit Mount Everest.
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E.
Ben Durrant
Ben Durrant is a musician best known as a member of the indie supergroup Gayngs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic wrestler
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freestyle wrestler ⓘ human ⓘ wrestling coach ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| careerStatus | retired wrestler ⓘ |
| coachedAtLevel | NCAA Division I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coachingRole | longtime head coach at the University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| collegeConferenceAsAthlete | Big Ten Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collegeConferenceAsCoach | Big Ten Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collegiateAchievement |
multiple-time All-American at the University of Iowa
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multiple-time NCAA champion for the University of Iowa ⓘ |
| collegiateTeam | Iowa Hawkeyes wrestling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competitionClass | 57 kg weight class ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1961-09-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
University of Iowa (as assistant coach)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Wisconsin–Madison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction | National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headCoachOf | Wisconsin Badgers wrestling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laterCareerStatus | retired collegiate head coach ⓘ |
| medalistIn | wrestling at the 1984 Summer Olympics – men’s freestyle 57 kg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Iowa Hawkeyes wrestling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Barry Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the University of Iowa’s most accomplished wrestlers ⓘ |
| notableTeammateOrCoach | Dan Gable GENERATED ⓘ |
| occupation |
wrestler
ⓘ
wrestling coach ⓘ |
| OlympicMedal | silver medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1984 Summer Olympics
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
1988 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bloomington, Indiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| representedCountry | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | wrestling ⓘ |
| sportDiscipline | men’s freestyle wrestling ⓘ |
| trainingBase | Iowa City, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrestlingStyle | freestyle wrestling ⓘ |
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: Barry Davis Description of subject: Barry Davis is a former American freestyle wrestler and Olympic medalist who became one of the University of Iowa’s most accomplished competitors and later a longtime collegiate coach.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.