Mark Appel
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Mark Appel is an American professional baseball pitcher and former Stanford University standout who was selected first overall in the 2013 MLB Draft.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mark Appel canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13481973 — 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)
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Target entity: Mark Appel Context triple: [Stanford Cardinal baseball, notableAlumnus, Mark Appel]
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A.
Ken Schretzmann
Ken Schretzmann is a film editor known for his work on major animated features, including Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio.
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B.
Marc Klasfeld
Marc Klasfeld is an American music video director known for his prolific work with major hip-hop and rock artists and for creating visually distinctive, narrative-driven videos.
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C.
Eric Wetzels
Eric Wetzels is a Dutch politician who serves as the chairperson of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
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D.
Michael Nolin
Michael Nolin is an American film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed music drama "Mr. Holland's Opus."
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E.
Matt Oberg
Matt Oberg is an American actor and comedian known for his work in television comedies and voice acting roles.
- 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: Mark Appel Target entity description: Mark Appel is an American professional baseball pitcher and former Stanford University standout who was selected first overall in the 2013 MLB Draft.
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A.
Ken Schretzmann
Ken Schretzmann is a film editor known for his work on major animated features, including Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio.
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B.
Marc Klasfeld
Marc Klasfeld is an American music video director known for his prolific work with major hip-hop and rock artists and for creating visually distinctive, narrative-driven videos.
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C.
Eric Wetzels
Eric Wetzels is a Dutch politician who serves as the chairperson of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
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D.
Michael Nolin
Michael Nolin is an American film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed music drama "Mr. Holland's Opus."
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E.
Matt Oberg
Matt Oberg is an American actor and comedian known for his work in television comedies and voice acting roles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball player
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human ⓘ pitcher ⓘ |
| bats | right ⓘ |
| collegeTeam | Stanford Cardinal baseball ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1991-07-15 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Houston Astros ⓘ |
| draftPosition | first overall ⓘ |
| draftYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Stanford University ⓘ |
| familyName | Appel ⓘ |
| givenName | Mark ⓘ |
| leagueDraftedIn |
Major League Baseball Draft
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linked to:
MLB Draft
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| memberOfSportsTeam |
Houston Astros organization
ⓘ
linked to:
Houston Astros
Philadelphia Phillies organization ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia Phillies
Stanford Cardinal baseball ⓘ |
| minorLeagueTeam |
Corpus Christi Hooks
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Lancaster JetHawks ⓘ Lehigh Valley IronPigs ⓘ Reading Fightin Phils ⓘ Tri-City ValleyCats ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
selected first overall in the 2013 MLB Draft
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standout pitcher at Stanford University ⓘ |
| occupation | professional baseball player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Houston, Texas, United States ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | pitcher ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| throws | right ⓘ |
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: Mark Appel Description of subject: Mark Appel is an American professional baseball pitcher and former Stanford University standout who was selected first overall in the 2013 MLB Draft.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.