Jerry Meals
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Jerry Meals is a veteran Major League Baseball umpire known for working numerous postseason games and serving as a crew chief in high-profile series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jerry Meals canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7893047 — 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: Jerry Meals Context triple: [2014 National League Championship Series, umpireCrewChief, Jerry Meals]
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A.
William Lundigan
William Lundigan was an American film and television actor active from the 1930s through the 1960s, known for roles in dramas, war films, and early TV series.
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B.
James Ritz
James Ritz is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1977 action-comedy film "Grand Theft Auto," one of Ron Howard’s early directing projects.
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C.
Jay "Chef" Hicks
Jay "Chef" Hicks is a nervous yet good-natured Navy cook who serves alongside Captain Benjamin L. Willard in the Vietnam War film "Apocalypse Now."
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D.
David Huntley
David Huntley is an entrepreneur best known as a founder of the outdoor apparel and equipment company Mountain Hardwear.
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E.
Richard McDonald
Richard McDonald was an American entrepreneur who, with his brother Maurice, created the original McDonald’s restaurant concept that evolved into the global fast-food chain.
- 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: Jerry Meals Target entity description: Jerry Meals is a veteran Major League Baseball umpire known for working numerous postseason games and serving as a crew chief in high-profile series.
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A.
William Lundigan
William Lundigan was an American film and television actor active from the 1930s through the 1960s, known for roles in dramas, war films, and early TV series.
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B.
James Ritz
James Ritz is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1977 action-comedy film "Grand Theft Auto," one of Ron Howard’s early directing projects.
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C.
Jay "Chef" Hicks
Jay "Chef" Hicks is a nervous yet good-natured Navy cook who serves alongside Captain Benjamin L. Willard in the Vietnam War film "Apocalypse Now."
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D.
David Huntley
David Huntley is an entrepreneur best known as a founder of the outdoor apparel and equipment company Mountain Hardwear.
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E.
Richard McDonald
Richard McDonald was an American entrepreneur who, with his brother Maurice, created the original McDonald’s restaurant concept that evolved into the global fast-food chain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball umpire
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Major League Baseball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| field | baseball ⓘ |
| hasParticipatedIn |
Major League Baseball postseason
NERFINISHED
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Major League Baseball regular season NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
first base umpire
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home plate umpire ⓘ left field umpire ⓘ right field umpire ⓘ second base umpire ⓘ third base umpire ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
serving as a crew chief in high-profile series
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working numerous postseason games as an MLB umpire ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | long tenure as a Major League Baseball umpire ⓘ |
| notableWork | Major League Baseball postseason games NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | Major League Baseball umpire ⓘ |
| partOf | Major League Baseball umpiring staff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
crew chief
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umpire ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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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: Jerry Meals Description of subject: Jerry Meals is a veteran Major League Baseball umpire known for working numerous postseason games and serving as a crew chief in high-profile series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.