Kevin Young
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Kevin Young is an American former hurdler best known for setting the long-standing world record in the 400-meter hurdles while winning Olympic gold in 1992.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kevin Young canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10556764 — 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: Kevin Young Context triple: [1991 World Championships in Athletics, goldMedalWinnerIn men's 400 metres hurdles, Kevin Young]
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A.
Kevin Young
Kevin Young is an American basketball coach known for his roles in the NBA and NBA G League, including serving as a head coach and prominent assistant coach.
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B.
Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes is an acclaimed contemporary American poet known for his innovative use of form and exploration of race, identity, and masculinity in works such as "Lighthead."
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C.
Charles B. Wright
Charles B. Wright was a 19th-century American businessman and railroad executive best known for leading the early development and expansion of the Northern Pacific Railway.
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D.
Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith is an acclaimed American poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate whose work explores history, identity, and the cosmos.
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E.
Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate known for exploring themes of memory, race, and the American South.
- 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: Kevin Young Target entity description: Kevin Young is an American former hurdler best known for setting the long-standing world record in the 400-meter hurdles while winning Olympic gold in 1992.
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A.
Kevin Young
Kevin Young is an American basketball coach known for his roles in the NBA and NBA G League, including serving as a head coach and prominent assistant coach.
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B.
Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes is an acclaimed contemporary American poet known for his innovative use of form and exploration of race, identity, and masculinity in works such as "Lighthead."
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C.
Charles B. Wright
Charles B. Wright was a 19th-century American businessman and railroad executive best known for leading the early development and expansion of the Northern Pacific Railway.
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D.
Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith is an acclaimed American poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate whose work explores history, identity, and the cosmos.
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E.
Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate known for exploring themes of memory, race, and the American South.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
athlete
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human ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of California, Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1966-09-16 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collegeTeam | UCLA Bruins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competedIn | World Championships in Athletics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | late 20th century ⓘ |
| event | 400 metres hurdles ⓘ |
| familyName | Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Kevin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height | about 1.93 m ⓘ |
| heldWorldRecordForEvent | 400 metres hurdles ⓘ |
| isRetired | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
400 metres hurdles world record
ⓘ
winning Olympic gold medal in 400 metres hurdles at 1992 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| name | Kevin Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | first man to run 400 metres hurdles under 47 seconds ⓘ |
| occupation | hurdler ⓘ |
| OlympicGames | 1992 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| OlympicGoldMedalIn | 400 metres hurdles ⓘ |
| personalBest | 46.78 seconds in 400 metres hurdles ⓘ |
| representedCountry | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport |
athletics
ⓘ
track and field ⓘ |
| weight | about 79 kg ⓘ |
| worldRecordCompetition | 1992 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worldRecordDate | 1992-08-06 ⓘ |
| worldRecordEvent | 400 metres hurdles ⓘ |
| worldRecordLongevity | long-standing world record in 400 metres hurdles ⓘ |
| worldRecordPlace | Barcelona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worldRecordTime | 46.78 seconds ⓘ |
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: Kevin Young Description of subject: Kevin Young is an American former hurdler best known for setting the long-standing world record in the 400-meter hurdles while winning Olympic gold in 1992.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.