Jimmy Rollins
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Jimmy Rollins is a former Major League Baseball shortstop best known for his long, accomplished career with the Philadelphia Phillies, where he won the 2007 NL MVP and helped lead the team to the 2008 World Series title.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jimmy Rollins canonical | 8 |
| James Calvin Rollins | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T105280 — 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: Jimmy Rollins Context triple: [Philadelphia Phillies, notablePlayer, Jimmy Rollins]
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A.
Chase Utley
Chase Utley is a former Major League Baseball second baseman best known as a cornerstone of the Philadelphia Phillies’ mid-2000s championship teams and one of the premier hitters at his position.
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B.
Ryan Zimmerman
Ryan Zimmerman is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and first baseman who became the longtime face of the Washington Nationals franchise and helped lead the team to its first World Series title in 2019.
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C.
Bryce Harper
Bryce Harper is an American professional baseball outfielder and former MVP known for his prodigious power hitting and early stardom in Major League Baseball.
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D.
Sam Fuld
Sam Fuld is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who transitioned into a front-office executive role and became a key decision-maker for the Philadelphia Phillies.
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E.
Dustin Pedroia
Dustin Pedroia is a former Major League Baseball second baseman renowned for his gritty play, elite defense, and key role in multiple Boston Red Sox championship teams.
- 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: Jimmy Rollins Target entity description: Jimmy Rollins is a former Major League Baseball shortstop best known for his long, accomplished career with the Philadelphia Phillies, where he won the 2007 NL MVP and helped lead the team to the 2008 World Series title.
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A.
Chase Utley
Chase Utley is a former Major League Baseball second baseman best known as a cornerstone of the Philadelphia Phillies’ mid-2000s championship teams and one of the premier hitters at his position.
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B.
Ryan Zimmerman
Ryan Zimmerman is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and first baseman who became the longtime face of the Washington Nationals franchise and helped lead the team to its first World Series title in 2019.
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C.
Bryce Harper
Bryce Harper is an American professional baseball outfielder and former MVP known for his prodigious power hitting and early stardom in Major League Baseball.
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D.
Sam Fuld
Sam Fuld is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who transitioned into a front-office executive role and became a key decision-maker for the Philadelphia Phillies.
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E.
Dustin Pedroia
Dustin Pedroia is a former Major League Baseball second baseman renowned for his gritty play, elite defense, and key role in multiple Boston Red Sox championship teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
professional baseball player ⓘ shortstop ⓘ |
| AllStarSelection |
2001
ⓘ
2002 ⓘ 2005 ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Gold Glove Award
ⓘ
National League All-Star ⓘ National League Most Valuable Player Award ⓘ National League runs scored leader ⓘ National League stolen base leader ⓘ National League triples leader ⓘ Roberto Clemente Award ⓘ Silver Slugger Award ⓘ World Series champion ⓘ |
| bats | switch ⓘ |
| brokeFranchiseRecord | Philadelphia Phillies all-time hits record ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1978-11-27 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Philadelphia Phillies ⓘ |
| draftRound | 2nd round ⓘ |
| draftYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| finalMLBGameDate | 2016-06-08 ⓘ |
| finalMLBTeam | Chicago White Sox ⓘ |
| fullName |
Jimmy Rollins
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
James Calvin Rollins
|
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| GoldGloveYear |
2007
ⓘ
2008 ⓘ 2009 ⓘ |
| heldRecordFor | Philadelphia Phillies all-time hits leader ⓘ |
| highSchoolAttended | Encinal High School ⓘ |
| leaguePlayedIn | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| MLBDebutDate | 2000-09-17 ⓘ |
| MLBDebutTeam | Philadelphia Phillies ⓘ |
| MVPYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| nickname |
J-Roll
ⓘ
Jimmy Rollins self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
durability and consecutive games played streak
ⓘ
power-speed combination as a leadoff hitter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Oakland
ⓘ
surface form:
Oakland, California, United States
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| playedForOrganization |
Chicago White Sox
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago White Sox organization
Los Angeles Dodgers ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles Dodgers organization
Philadelphia Phillies ⓘ
surface form:
Philadelphia Phillies organization
|
| positionPlayed | shortstop ⓘ |
| SilverSluggerYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| teamPlayedFor |
Chicago White Sox
ⓘ
Los Angeles Dodgers ⓘ Philadelphia Phillies ⓘ |
| throws | right ⓘ |
| WorldSeriesChampionYear | 2008 ⓘ |
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: Jimmy Rollins Description of subject: Jimmy Rollins is a former Major League Baseball shortstop best known for his long, accomplished career with the Philadelphia Phillies, where he won the 2007 NL MVP and helped lead the team to the 2008 World Series title.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
James Calvin Rollins