Don Robinson
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Don Robinson is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher known for his long career primarily with the Pittsburgh Pirates and his role as both a starter and reliever in the 1970s and 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Don Robinson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1997294 — 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: Don Robinson Context triple: [Game 3 of the 1989 World Series, losingPitcher, Don Robinson]
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A.
Fred Robinson
Fred Robinson was an American jazz trombonist active in the 1920s and 1930s, known for his work with Louis Armstrong and other leading early jazz ensembles.
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B.
Larry Robinson
Larry Robinson is an American academic and administrator best known for serving as president of Florida A&M University.
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C.
Dwight Merriman
Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
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D.
Joe Caldwell
Joe Caldwell is a former American professional basketball player best known for his scoring and athleticism in both the NBA and ABA during the 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
Oscar Furlong
Oscar Furlong was an Argentine basketball player renowned as one of the sport’s early international stars, particularly for leading Argentina to prominence in the mid-20th century.
- 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: Don Robinson Target entity description: Don Robinson is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher known for his long career primarily with the Pittsburgh Pirates and his role as both a starter and reliever in the 1970s and 1980s.
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A.
Fred Robinson
Fred Robinson was an American jazz trombonist active in the 1920s and 1930s, known for his work with Louis Armstrong and other leading early jazz ensembles.
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B.
Larry Robinson
Larry Robinson is an American academic and administrator best known for serving as president of Florida A&M University.
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C.
Dwight Merriman
Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
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D.
Joe Caldwell
Joe Caldwell is a former American professional basketball player best known for his scoring and athleticism in both the NBA and ABA during the 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
Oscar Furlong
Oscar Furlong was an Argentine basketball player renowned as one of the sport’s early international stars, particularly for leading Argentina to prominence in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball player
ⓘ
human ⓘ pitcher ⓘ |
| bats | right ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Robinson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Major League Baseball pitching
ⓘ
professional sports ⓘ |
| givenName | Don ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Los Angeles Angels
ⓘ
surface form:
California Angels
Philadelphia Phillies ⓘ Pittsburgh Pirates ⓘ San Francisco Giants ⓘ |
| notableFor |
long MLB career primarily with the Pittsburgh Pirates
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serving as both a starter and reliever in the 1970s and 1980s ⓘ |
| occupation | professional baseball player ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Major League Baseball season 1978
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Major League Baseball season 1979 ⓘ Major League Baseball season 1980s ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | pitcher ⓘ |
| role |
relief pitcher
ⓘ
starting 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: Don Robinson Description of subject: Don Robinson is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher known for his long career primarily with the Pittsburgh Pirates and his role as both a starter and reliever in the 1970s and 1980s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Game 3 of the 1989 World Series