Bruce Froemming
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Bruce Froemming is a longtime Major League Baseball umpire known for his record-setting career longevity and participation in numerous postseason and World Series games.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bruce Froemming canonical | 3 |
| Bruce Neal Froemming | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3230591 — 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)
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Target entity: Bruce Froemming Context triple: [1995 World Series, umpireCrewChief, Bruce Froemming]
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A.
John Eisendrath
John Eisendrath is a television writer and producer best known for his work on series such as "The Blacklist" and "Alias."
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B.
Charles Rettig
Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
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C.
Bill Frieder
Bill Frieder is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of Michigan to national prominence in the 1980s before departing just prior to their 1989 NCAA championship run.
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D.
John Kiffmeyer
John Kiffmeyer is an American drummer best known for being the original drummer of the punk rock band Green Day during their early years.
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E.
Curt Rothenberger
Curt Rothenberger was a German jurist and high-ranking Nazi official who played a key role in implementing and justifying the Third Reich’s oppressive legal policies.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Bruce Froemming Target entity description: Bruce Froemming is a longtime Major League Baseball umpire known for his record-setting career longevity and participation in numerous postseason and World Series games.
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A.
John Eisendrath
John Eisendrath is a television writer and producer best known for his work on series such as "The Blacklist" and "Alias."
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B.
Charles Rettig
Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
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C.
Bill Frieder
Bill Frieder is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of Michigan to national prominence in the 1980s before departing just prior to their 1989 NCAA championship run.
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D.
John Kiffmeyer
John Kiffmeyer is an American drummer best known for being the original drummer of the punk rock band Green Day during their early years.
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E.
Curt Rothenberger
Curt Rothenberger was a German jurist and high-ranking Nazi official who played a key role in implementing and justifying the Third Reich’s oppressive legal policies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball umpire
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baseball umpire ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-09-28 ⓘ |
| debutInMLBAsUmpire | 1971 ⓘ |
| employer | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| eraOfActivity |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| familyName | Froemming ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | professional baseball officiating ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Bruce ⓘ |
| hasNotableCharacteristic |
durability
ⓘ
longevity in professional sports officiating ⓘ |
| hasPosition |
base umpire
ⓘ
home plate umpire ⓘ |
| knownFor |
career longevity as a Major League Baseball umpire
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officiating numerous postseason games ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| league | National League ⓘ |
| name |
Bruce Neal Froemming
ⓘ
linked to:
Bruce Froemming
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| notableAchievement |
one of the longest-tenured umpires in Major League Baseball history
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set record for most games umpired in Major League history at time of retirement ⓘ umpired more than 5,000 Major League games ⓘ |
| notableFor | record-setting number of games umpired in MLB ⓘ |
| occupation | baseball umpire ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Division Series
ⓘ
League Championship Series ⓘ Major League Baseball All-Star Game ⓘ
linked to:
MLB All-Star Game
World Series ⓘ |
| partOf |
National League umpiring staff
ⓘ
linked to:
Major League Baseball umpires
|
| placeOfBirth | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States ⓘ |
| residence |
Wisconsin, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Wisconsin
|
| retired | true ⓘ |
| roleInWorldSeries | umpire ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| totalMLBGamesUmpired | 5000+ ⓘ |
| umpiringCareerEndYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| umpiringCareerStartYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| workedIn |
Major League Baseball postseason
ⓘ
linked to:
MLB playoffs
National League ⓘ |
| yearsActiveAsMLBUmpire | 1971–2007 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Bruce Froemming Description of subject: Bruce Froemming is a longtime Major League Baseball umpire known for his record-setting career longevity and participation in numerous postseason and World Series games.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bruce Froemming