Rick Robey
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Rick Robey is a former American basketball center best known for starring on the University of Kentucky’s 1978 NCAA championship team and later playing in the NBA.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rick Robey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10278416 — 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: Rick Robey Context triple: [Joe B. Hall, coachedNotablePlayer, Rick Robey]
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A.
Barry Detweiler
Barry Detweiler is a fictional character appearing in the Fedora universe, contributing to its narrative and thematic development.
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B.
Rob Tapert
Rob Tapert is an American film and television producer best known for co-creating and producing genre series like Xena: Warrior Princess and Spartacus, as well as collaborating frequently with director Sam Raimi on horror and fantasy projects.
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C.
David Robey
David Robey is the primary antagonist in the crime thriller film "Luther: The Fallen Sun," known for being a highly intelligent and sadistic tech-savvy serial killer who torments detective John Luther.
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D.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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E.
Ed Vargo
Ed Vargo was a prominent Major League Baseball umpire who worked in the National League for over two decades and officiated multiple World Series and All-Star Games.
- 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: Rick Robey Target entity description: Rick Robey is a former American basketball center best known for starring on the University of Kentucky’s 1978 NCAA championship team and later playing in the NBA.
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A.
Barry Detweiler
Barry Detweiler is a fictional character appearing in the Fedora universe, contributing to its narrative and thematic development.
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B.
Rob Tapert
Rob Tapert is an American film and television producer best known for co-creating and producing genre series like Xena: Warrior Princess and Spartacus, as well as collaborating frequently with director Sam Raimi on horror and fantasy projects.
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C.
David Robey
David Robey is the primary antagonist in the crime thriller film "Luther: The Fallen Sun," known for being a highly intelligent and sadistic tech-savvy serial killer who torments detective John Luther.
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D.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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E.
Ed Vargo
Ed Vargo was a prominent Major League Baseball umpire who worked in the National League for over two decades and officiated multiple World Series and All-Star Games.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NBA player
ⓘ
basketball player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | NCAA champion (1978) ⓘ |
| careerEnd | 1986 ⓘ |
| careerStart | 1978 ⓘ |
| collegeTeam | Kentucky Wildcats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1956-01-30 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Indiana Pacers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| draftLeague |
National Basketball Association
ⓘ
surface form:
NBA
|
| draftPickNumber | 3 ⓘ |
| draftRound | 1 ⓘ |
| draftYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Kentucky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Robey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Rick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFame | Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| handedness | right-handed ⓘ |
| height |
208 cm
ⓘ
6 ft 10 in ⓘ |
| highSchool | Brother Martin High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber |
40
ⓘ
50 ⓘ 53 ⓘ |
| league | National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Boston Celtics
ⓘ
Indiana Pacers NERFINISHED ⓘ Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball NERFINISHED ⓘ Phoenix Suns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Rick Robey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
playing center in the NBA
ⓘ
starring on the University of Kentucky 1978 NCAA championship team ⓘ |
| occupation |
college basketball player
ⓘ
professional basketball player ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1978 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NBA playoffs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfEducation | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | center ⓘ |
| residence | Louisville, Kentucky, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| sportNumber |
40 (Indiana Pacers)
ⓘ
50 (Phoenix Suns) ⓘ 53 (Boston Celtics) ⓘ |
| teamFoundedBy | played under coach Joe B. Hall at Kentucky ⓘ |
| winnerOf | 1978 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship 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: Rick Robey Description of subject: Rick Robey is a former American basketball center best known for starring on the University of Kentucky’s 1978 NCAA championship team and later playing in the NBA.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.