Moneyball
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Moneyball is a 2011 sports drama film (based on Michael Lewis’s nonfiction book) that chronicles the Oakland Athletics’ pioneering use of sabermetrics and data-driven analysis to build a competitive baseball team on a limited budget.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Moneyball canonical | 23 |
| Moneyball (film) | 2 |
| Moneyball (2011 film) | 1 |
| Moneyball approach to roster construction | 1 |
| Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game | 1 |
| book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game | 1 |
| film "Moneyball" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T962412 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Moneyball Context triple: [Oakland Athletics, popularizedBy, Moneyball]
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A.
The Score
The Score is a 2001 heist thriller film starring Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, and Marlon Brando, centered on an aging safecracker drawn into one last high-stakes robbery.
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B.
Curse of the Bambino
Curse of the Bambino is the popular superstition that blamed the Boston Red Sox’s 86-year World Series championship drought on their 1919 sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.
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C.
Field of Dreams
Field of Dreams is a 1989 American fantasy-drama film about an Iowa farmer who builds a baseball field in his cornfield after hearing a mysterious voice, leading to encounters with legendary players and reflections on family and redemption.
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D.
The Bambino
The Bambino is the legendary nickname of Babe Ruth, one of baseball’s greatest sluggers and most iconic sports figures.
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E.
The Splendid Splinter
The Splendid Splinter was the legendary Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams, widely regarded as one of the greatest hitters in baseball history.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Moneyball Target entity description: Moneyball is a 2011 sports drama film (based on Michael Lewis’s nonfiction book) that chronicles the Oakland Athletics’ pioneering use of sabermetrics and data-driven analysis to build a competitive baseball team on a limited budget.
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A.
The Score
The Score is a 2001 heist thriller film starring Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, and Marlon Brando, centered on an aging safecracker drawn into one last high-stakes robbery.
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B.
Curse of the Bambino
Curse of the Bambino is the popular superstition that blamed the Boston Red Sox’s 86-year World Series championship drought on their 1919 sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.
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C.
Field of Dreams
Field of Dreams is a 1989 American fantasy-drama film about an Iowa farmer who builds a baseball field in his cornfield after hearing a mysterious voice, leading to encounters with legendary players and reflections on family and redemption.
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D.
The Bambino
The Bambino is the legendary nickname of Babe Ruth, one of baseball’s greatest sluggers and most iconic sports figures.
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E.
The Splendid Splinter
The Splendid Splinter was the legendary Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams, widely regarded as one of the greatest hitters in baseball history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Moneyball Description of subject: Moneyball is a 2011 sports drama film (based on Michael Lewis’s nonfiction book) that chronicles the Oakland Athletics’ pioneering use of sabermetrics and data-driven analysis to build a competitive baseball team on a limited budget.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
this entity surface form:
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
this entity surface form:
Moneyball approach to roster construction
this entity surface form:
film "Moneyball"
this entity surface form:
Moneyball (film)
this entity surface form:
Moneyball (2011 film)
subject surface form:
Philip Seymour Hoffman
this entity surface form:
Moneyball (film)