Jim Morris
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Jim Morris is a high school teacher and former baseball pitcher whose unlikely late-career rise to the major leagues inspired the film "The Rookie."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jim Morris canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6150324 — 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: Jim Morris Context triple: [The Rookie, mainCharacter, Jim Morris]
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A.
Jim Morris
Jim Morris is an American film producer and executive best known for his work at Pixar Animation Studios, including producing the acclaimed animated film WALL-E.
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B.
Brian Morris
Brian Morris is an American jurist who serves as the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Montana and is known for his federal judicial service in that state.
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C.
Don Saleski
Don Saleski is a former NHL right winger best known for his gritty, physical play with the Philadelphia Flyers during their 1970s "Broad Street Bullies" era.
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D.
Greg Morris
Greg Morris was an American actor best known for his role as electronics expert Barney Collier on the television series "Mission: Impossible."
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E.
James Morris
James Morris is a music industry professional best known as the founder of Dublin’s renowned Windmill Lane Studios, a landmark recording facility used by numerous major artists.
- 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: Jim Morris Target entity description: Jim Morris is a high school teacher and former baseball pitcher whose unlikely late-career rise to the major leagues inspired the film "The Rookie."
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A.
Jim Morris
Jim Morris is an American film producer and executive best known for his work at Pixar Animation Studios, including producing the acclaimed animated film WALL-E.
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B.
Brian Morris
Brian Morris is an American jurist who serves as the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Montana and is known for his federal judicial service in that state.
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C.
Don Saleski
Don Saleski is a former NHL right winger best known for his gritty, physical play with the Philadelphia Flyers during their 1970s "Broad Street Bullies" era.
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D.
Greg Morris
Greg Morris was an American actor best known for his role as electronics expert Barney Collier on the television series "Mission: Impossible."
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E.
James Morris
James Morris is a music industry professional best known as the founder of Dublin’s renowned Windmill Lane Studios, a landmark recording facility used by numerous major artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball player
ⓘ
human ⓘ school teacher ⓘ |
| bats | left ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | a Texas high school baseball program ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
education
ⓘ
public speaking ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| genre | inspirational sports story ⓘ |
| givenName | Jim ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeTheme |
perseverance
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pursuing dreams later in life ⓘ second chances ⓘ |
| hasOccupationAtTime | high school teacher before MLB debut ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn | storyline of "The Rookie" ⓘ |
| inspiredWork |
film "The Rookie"
ⓘ
linked to:
The Rookie
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| name | Jim Morris ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | reaching MLB after arm injuries and retirement ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
MLB debut in his mid-30s
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late-career rise to Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| notableFor |
making MLB as a middle-aged high school teacher
ⓘ
unusual late start to MLB career ⓘ |
| notableWork |
autobiography "The Oldest Rookie"
ⓘ
memoir that inspired the film "The Rookie" ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball pitcher
ⓘ
high school teacher ⓘ motivational speaker ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Dennis Quaid ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | pitcher ⓘ |
| residence | Texas ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
film "The Rookie"
ⓘ
linked to:
The Rookie
|
| throws | left ⓘ |
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: Jim Morris Description of subject: Jim Morris is a high school teacher and former baseball pitcher whose unlikely late-career rise to the major leagues inspired the film "The Rookie."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.