Tommy La Stella
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Tommy La Stella is an American professional baseball infielder known for his contact hitting and versatility, having played for multiple Major League Baseball teams including the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Angels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tommy La Stella canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13507510 — 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: Tommy La Stella Context triple: [Westwood, New Jersey, hasNotablePerson, Tommy La Stella]
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A.
Joey Cora
Joey Cora is a former Major League Baseball second baseman and coach, known for his time with teams like the Chicago White Sox and Seattle Mariners.
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B.
Rocco Baldelli
Rocco Baldelli is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who became a successful manager, known for leading the Minnesota Twins and winning the American League Manager of the Year Award.
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C.
Richie DiMaso
Richie DiMaso is an ambitious and volatile FBI agent in the film "American Hustle" who drives the high-stakes sting operation at the story’s center.
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D.
Eric Hosmer
Eric Hosmer is an American former Major League Baseball first baseman best known for his key role with the Kansas City Royals, including their 2015 World Series championship.
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E.
Sergio Francisco Romo
Sergio Francisco Romo is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known for his key role in the San Francisco Giants’ three World Series championships in the early 2010s.
- 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: Tommy La Stella Target entity description: Tommy La Stella is an American professional baseball infielder known for his contact hitting and versatility, having played for multiple Major League Baseball teams including the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Angels.
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A.
Joey Cora
Joey Cora is a former Major League Baseball second baseman and coach, known for his time with teams like the Chicago White Sox and Seattle Mariners.
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B.
Rocco Baldelli
Rocco Baldelli is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who became a successful manager, known for leading the Minnesota Twins and winning the American League Manager of the Year Award.
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C.
Richie DiMaso
Richie DiMaso is an ambitious and volatile FBI agent in the film "American Hustle" who drives the high-stakes sting operation at the story’s center.
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D.
Eric Hosmer
Eric Hosmer is an American former Major League Baseball first baseman best known for his key role with the Kansas City Royals, including their 2015 World Series championship.
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E.
Sergio Francisco Romo
Sergio Francisco Romo is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known for his key role in the San Francisco Giants’ three World Series championships in the early 2010s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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infielder ⓘ professional baseball player ⓘ |
| allStarSelectionYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| awardReceived | MLB All-Star ⓘ |
| bats | left ⓘ |
| battingStyle | contact hitter ⓘ |
| championship | 2016 World Series ⓘ |
| championshipTeam | Chicago Cubs ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | Coastal Carolina University ⓘ |
| collegeTeam | Coastal Carolina Chanticleers baseball ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| debutLeague | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Atlanta Braves ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| hasNotableSkill |
contact hitting
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plate discipline ⓘ |
| hasNotableTrait | versatility ⓘ |
| knownFor |
high on-base percentage
ⓘ
low strikeout rate ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| name | Tommy La Stella ⓘ |
| occupation | baseball player ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Atlanta Braves
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Chicago Cubs ⓘ Los Angeles Angels ⓘ Oakland Athletics ⓘ San Francisco Giants ⓘ Seattle Mariners ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
second baseman
ⓘ
third baseman ⓘ |
| role | utility infielder ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| throws | right ⓘ |
| won | World Series ⓘ |
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: Tommy La Stella Description of subject: Tommy La Stella is an American professional baseball infielder known for his contact hitting and versatility, having played for multiple Major League Baseball teams including the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Angels.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Westwood, New Jersey, United States