Ron Swoboda
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Ron Swoboda is a former Major League Baseball outfielder best known for his spectacular game-saving catch in Game 4 of the 1969 World Series for the New York Mets.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ron Swoboda canonical | 2 |
| Ronald Alan Swoboda | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7647073 — 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: Ron Swoboda Context triple: [1969 New York Mets season, notablePositionPlayer, Ron Swoboda]
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A.
Jeff Tarpley
Jeff Tarpley is an American actor best known to the public as the ex-husband of comedian and television personality Sherri Shepherd.
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B.
John J. Tominac
John J. Tominac was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient recognized for extraordinary heroism during World War II.
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C.
William Knox Schroeder
William Knox Schroeder was a 19-year-old Kent State University student who was fatally shot by the Ohio National Guard during the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.
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D.
Hartland Snyder
Hartland Snyder was an American theoretical physicist known for his early work on black hole physics and for being one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s notable doctoral students.
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E.
Claude Stanush
Claude Stanush was an American writer and journalist known for his work chronicling Texas history and culture, including co-writing the screenplay for the film "The Newton Boys."
- 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: Ron Swoboda Target entity description: Ron Swoboda is a former Major League Baseball outfielder best known for his spectacular game-saving catch in Game 4 of the 1969 World Series for the New York Mets.
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A.
Jeff Tarpley
Jeff Tarpley is an American actor best known to the public as the ex-husband of comedian and television personality Sherri Shepherd.
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B.
John J. Tominac
John J. Tominac was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient recognized for extraordinary heroism during World War II.
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C.
William Knox Schroeder
William Knox Schroeder was a 19-year-old Kent State University student who was fatally shot by the Ohio National Guard during the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.
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D.
Hartland Snyder
Hartland Snyder was an American theoretical physicist known for his early work on black hole physics and for being one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s notable doctoral students.
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E.
Claude Stanush
Claude Stanush was an American writer and journalist known for his work chronicling Texas history and culture, including co-writing the screenplay for the film "The Newton Boys."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Ron Swoboda Description of subject: Ron Swoboda is a former Major League Baseball outfielder best known for his spectacular game-saving catch in Game 4 of the 1969 World Series for the New York Mets.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ron Swoboda