Augie Donatelli
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Augie Donatelli was a prominent Major League Baseball umpire known for working numerous World Series and All-Star Games during his long career.
All labels observed (1)
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| Augie Donatelli canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6644814 — 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: Augie Donatelli Context triple: [1973 World Series, umpireCrewChief, Augie Donatelli]
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A.
Joey DeLuca
Joey DeLuca is a fictional character from the short-lived 1970s American sitcom "Blansky's Beauties."
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B.
Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto is an American actor known for his roles in television series such as "Masters of Sex" and "Heroes," as well as films like "Final Destination 5."
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C.
Augie Meyers
Augie Meyers is an American musician best known as a founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet and the Texas Tornados, recognized for his distinctive Vox organ and keyboard work in Tex-Mex, country, and rock music.
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D.
Vince DiCola
Vince DiCola is an American composer and keyboardist best known for his synth-driven film scores in the 1980s, particularly for Rocky IV and The Transformers: The Movie.
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E.
Joey Spampinato
Joey Spampinato is an American bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band NRBQ and for his work as a sought-after session and touring musician.
- 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: Augie Donatelli Target entity description: Augie Donatelli was a prominent Major League Baseball umpire known for working numerous World Series and All-Star Games during his long career.
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A.
Joey DeLuca
Joey DeLuca is a fictional character from the short-lived 1970s American sitcom "Blansky's Beauties."
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B.
Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto is an American actor known for his roles in television series such as "Masters of Sex" and "Heroes," as well as films like "Final Destination 5."
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C.
Augie Meyers
Augie Meyers is an American musician best known as a founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet and the Texas Tornados, recognized for his distinctive Vox organ and keyboard work in Tex-Mex, country, and rock music.
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D.
Vince DiCola
Vince DiCola is an American composer and keyboardist best known for his synth-driven film scores in the 1980s, particularly for Rocky IV and The Transformers: The Movie.
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E.
Joey Spampinato
Joey Spampinato is an American bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band NRBQ and for his work as a sought-after session and touring musician.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball umpire
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human ⓘ |
| activeAsMLBUmpireFrom | 1950 ⓘ |
| activeAsMLBUmpireUntil | 1973 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Clearwater, Florida, United States ⓘ |
| conflictParticipated | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1914-08-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1990-05-24 ⓘ |
| employer | National League ⓘ |
| era | 20th-century baseball ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Italian American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | professional sports officiating ⓘ |
| fullName | August Joseph Donatelli ⓘ |
| givenName | August ⓘ |
| knownFor |
fiery and authoritative umpiring style
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working multiple MLB All-Star Games ⓘ working multiple World Series ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| leagueDebut | National League ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Army Air Forces ⓘ |
| MLBDebutAsUmpire | 1950 ⓘ |
| nickname | Augie Donatelli ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | umpired more than 3,000 Major League games ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
held as prisoner of war in Germany during World War II
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shot down over Germany during World War II ⓘ |
| notableGame |
home plate umpire for Game 7 of the 1960 World Series
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home plate umpire for Jim Bunning’s perfect game in 1964 ⓘ home plate umpire for Sandy Koufax’s first no-hitter in 1962 ⓘ |
| occupation |
Major League Baseball umpire
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baseball umpire ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Heinrich, Pennsylvania, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
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linked to:
St. Petersburg, Florida
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| positionPlayed | umpire ⓘ |
| residence |
St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
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linked to:
St. Petersburg, Florida
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| workedAllStarGame |
1952 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
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linked to:
1952 MLB All-Star Game
1954 Major League Baseball All-Star Game ⓘ
linked to:
1954 MLB All-Star Game
1958 Major League Baseball All-Star Game ⓘ 1962 Major League Baseball All-Star Game ⓘ 1968 Major League Baseball All-Star Game ⓘ
linked to:
1968 MLB All-Star Game
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| workedWorldSeries |
1955 World Series
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1957 World Series ⓘ 1961 World Series ⓘ 1967 World Series ⓘ 1973 World Series ⓘ |
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: Augie Donatelli Description of subject: Augie Donatelli was a prominent Major League Baseball umpire known for working numerous World Series and All-Star Games during his long career.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.