Jackie Robinson
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Jackie Robinson was a pioneering American baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947 and became a symbol of the civil rights movement.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T234784 — 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: Jackie Robinson Context triple: [Los Angeles Dodgers, notablePlayer, Jackie Robinson]
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Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth was an iconic American baseball player widely regarded as one of the greatest hitters in the sport’s history, whose power and charisma helped popularize Major League Baseball in the early 20th century.
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B.
Shoeless Joe Jackson
Shoeless Joe Jackson was an American baseball outfielder and one of the sport’s greatest hitters, whose legacy is overshadowed by his alleged involvement in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
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C.
Honus Wagner
Honus Wagner was a legendary early 20th-century Major League Baseball shortstop, primarily for the Pittsburgh Pirates, widely regarded as one of the greatest players in baseball history.
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D.
Lou Gehrig
Lou Gehrig was a legendary American baseball first baseman renowned for his durability, powerful hitting, and iconic career with the New York Yankees before it was tragically cut short by ALS.
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Mickey Mantle
Mickey Mantle was a legendary Hall of Fame switch-hitting center fielder widely regarded as one of the greatest players in baseball history.
- 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: Jackie Robinson Target entity description: Jackie Robinson was a pioneering American baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947 and became a symbol of the civil rights movement.
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A.
Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth was an iconic American baseball player widely regarded as one of the greatest hitters in the sport’s history, whose power and charisma helped popularize Major League Baseball in the early 20th century.
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B.
Shoeless Joe Jackson
Shoeless Joe Jackson was an American baseball outfielder and one of the sport’s greatest hitters, whose legacy is overshadowed by his alleged involvement in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
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C.
Honus Wagner
Honus Wagner was a legendary early 20th-century Major League Baseball shortstop, primarily for the Pittsburgh Pirates, widely regarded as one of the greatest players in baseball history.
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D.
Lou Gehrig
Lou Gehrig was a legendary American baseball first baseman renowned for his durability, powerful hitting, and iconic career with the New York Yankees before it was tragically cut short by ALS.
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E.
Mickey Mantle
Mickey Mantle was a legendary Hall of Fame switch-hitting center fielder widely regarded as one of the greatest players in baseball history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (71)
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: Jackie Robinson Description of subject: Jackie Robinson was a pioneering American baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947 and became a symbol of the civil rights movement.
Referenced by (67)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jack Roosevelt Robinson
this entity surface form:
Jackie Robinson’s MLB debut
subject surface form:
Kansas City Monarchs
subject surface form:
Cypress Hills Cemetery
this entity surface form:
Jackie Robinson (commemorative recognition via award context)
subject surface form:
42
subject surface form:
Arizona Diamondbacks