Victor John Raschi
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Victor John Raschi was an American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher best known for his dominant years with the New York Yankees in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Victor John Raschi canonical | 2 |
| Victor John Angelo Raschi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3545191 — 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: Victor John Raschi Context triple: [Vic Raschi, fullName, Victor John Raschi]
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A.
Victor Rasuk
Victor Rasuk is an American actor known for roles in films like "Lords of Dogtown" and "How to Make It in America," as well as supporting parts in major franchises.
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B.
Victor Grinich
Victor Grinich was an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the Traitorous Eight who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor, helping launch Silicon Valley’s semiconductor industry.
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C.
Victor Varconi
Victor Varconi was a Hungarian-born actor who became a prominent leading man in silent and early sound films in both Europe and Hollywood.
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D.
Paul Seydor
Paul Seydor is a film editor and scholar best known for his work on Sam Peckinpah’s films and his writings on American cinema.
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E.
Jean Tiberi
Jean Tiberi is a French politician from the Gaullist right who served as mayor of Paris in the 1990s and early 2000s.
- 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: Victor John Raschi Target entity description: Victor John Raschi was an American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher best known for his dominant years with the New York Yankees in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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A.
Victor Rasuk
Victor Rasuk is an American actor known for roles in films like "Lords of Dogtown" and "How to Make It in America," as well as supporting parts in major franchises.
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B.
Victor Grinich
Victor Grinich was an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the Traitorous Eight who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor, helping launch Silicon Valley’s semiconductor industry.
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C.
Victor Varconi
Victor Varconi was a Hungarian-born actor who became a prominent leading man in silent and early sound films in both Europe and Hollywood.
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D.
Paul Seydor
Paul Seydor is a film editor and scholar best known for his work on Sam Peckinpah’s films and his writings on American cinema.
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E.
Jean Tiberi
Jean Tiberi is a French politician from the Gaullist right who served as mayor of Paris in the 1990s and early 2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball pitcher
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| allStarSelection |
1948 American League All-Star
ⓘ
1949 American League All-Star ⓘ 1950 American League All-Star ⓘ 1952 American League All-Star ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Vic Raschi ⓘ |
| bats | right-handed ⓘ |
| brokeIntoRotation | 1947 with the New York Yankees ⓘ |
| burialPlace | St. Thomas the Apostle Cemetery, West Springfield, Massachusetts, United States ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1919-03-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1988-10-14 ⓘ |
| education | attended Springfield College ⓘ |
| familyName | Raschi ⓘ |
| finalMLBGameDate | 1955-09-23 ⓘ |
| finalMLBTeam |
Oakland Athletics
ⓘ
surface form:
Kansas City Athletics
|
| fullName | Victor John Raschi self-link ⓘ |
| givenName | Victor ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction | Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame is false ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Oakland Athletics
ⓘ
surface form:
Kansas City Athletics
New York Yankees ⓘ St. Louis Cardinals ⓘ |
| militaryService | served in the United States Army during World War II ⓘ |
| MLBDebutDate | 1946-09-23 ⓘ |
| MLBDebutTeam | New York Yankees ⓘ |
| nickname | The Springfield Rifle ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | won 20 or more games in multiple seasons for the Yankees ⓘ |
| notableFor | dominant pitching with the New York Yankees in the late 1940s and early 1950s ⓘ |
| occupation | baseball player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
West Springfield, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
West Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
|
| placeOfDeath |
Groveland, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Groveland, Massachusetts, United States
|
| positionPlayed | pitcher ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| team |
Kansas City Athletics 1955
ⓘ
New York Yankees dynasty of 1949–1953 ⓘ
surface form:
New York Yankees 1946–1953
St. Louis Cardinals 1954 ⓘ |
| throws | right-handed ⓘ |
| worldSeriesChampion |
1947 World Series
ⓘ
1949 World Series ⓘ 1950 World Series ⓘ 1951 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: Victor John Raschi Description of subject: Victor John Raschi was an American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher best known for his dominant years with the New York Yankees in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Vic Raschi
this entity surface form:
Victor John Angelo Raschi