C. I. Taylor
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C. I. Taylor was an influential early 20th-century Negro league baseball manager and executive best known for building and leading the Indianapolis ABCs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| C. I. Taylor canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5193159 — 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: C. I. Taylor Context triple: [Indianapolis ABCs, foundedBy, C. I. Taylor]
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A.
A. M. Taylor
A. M. Taylor is a physicist known for contributing to the influential optics textbook "Principles of Optics."
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B.
Francis Lenn Taylor
Francis Lenn Taylor was an American art dealer best known as the father of iconic actress Elizabeth Taylor.
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C.
J.H. Taylor
J.H. Taylor was a pioneering English professional golfer and multiple Open Championship winner who helped shape the early development of modern golf.
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D.
Charles Taylor Sherman
Charles Taylor Sherman was a 19th-century American lawyer and judge, and the elder brother of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.
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E.
Samuel A. Taylor
Samuel A. Taylor was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film "Vertigo" and for his successful Broadway plays.
- 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: C. I. Taylor Target entity description: C. I. Taylor was an influential early 20th-century Negro league baseball manager and executive best known for building and leading the Indianapolis ABCs.
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A.
A. M. Taylor
A. M. Taylor is a physicist known for contributing to the influential optics textbook "Principles of Optics."
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B.
Francis Lenn Taylor
Francis Lenn Taylor was an American art dealer best known as the father of iconic actress Elizabeth Taylor.
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C.
J.H. Taylor
J.H. Taylor was a pioneering English professional golfer and multiple Open Championship winner who helped shape the early development of modern golf.
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D.
Charles Taylor Sherman
Charles Taylor Sherman was a 19th-century American lawyer and judge, and the elder brother of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.
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E.
Samuel A. Taylor
Samuel A. Taylor was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film "Vertigo" and for his successful Broadway plays.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Negro league baseball manager
ⓘ
baseball executive ⓘ baseball manager ⓘ human ⓘ sports executive ⓘ |
| activeIn | early 20th century ⓘ |
| basedIn | Indianapolis, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
Black American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Negro league baseball
NERFINISHED
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baseball ⓘ |
| fullName | Charles Isham Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | professional baseball ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasPart | Indianapolis ABCs organization-building efforts ⓘ |
| influenced | development of Negro league baseball in Indianapolis ⓘ |
| league | Negro leagues NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | C. I. Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | establishing the Indianapolis ABCs as a competitive Negro league club ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Taylor baseball family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being an influential early 20th-century Negro league baseball figure
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building the Indianapolis ABCs into a leading Negro league team ⓘ managing the Indianapolis ABCs ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball executive
ⓘ
baseball manager ⓘ team owner ⓘ |
| positionInOrganization |
co-owner of the Indianapolis ABCs
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manager of the Indianapolis ABCs ⓘ |
| relative |
Ben Taylor
NERFINISHED
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Candy Jim Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Steel Arm Johnny Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
executive
ⓘ
manager ⓘ team builder ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Ben Taylor
NERFINISHED
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Candy Jim Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Steel Arm Johnny Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| teamManaged | Indianapolis ABCs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Indianapolis, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: C. I. Taylor Description of subject: C. I. Taylor was an influential early 20th-century Negro league baseball manager and executive best known for building and leading the Indianapolis ABCs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.