Vic Raschi
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Vic Raschi was a dominant right-handed pitcher for the New York Yankees in the 1940s and 1950s, known as one of the "Big Three" starters who helped lead the team to multiple World Series titles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vic Raschi canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T539116 — 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: Vic Raschi Context triple: [1950 World Series, game1WinningPitcher, Vic Raschi]
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A.
Bill Klem
Bill Klem was a pioneering Major League Baseball umpire, often called the "father of modern umpiring," known for his long career and influential role in shaping officiating standards.
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B.
Tuffy Rhodes
Tuffy Rhodes is an American former professional baseball outfielder best known for his prolific power-hitting career in Nippon Professional Baseball, where he tied the single-season home run record.
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C.
Gil Hodges
Gil Hodges was a renowned Major League Baseball first baseman and later manager, best known for his power hitting with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers and for managing the 1969 "Miracle Mets" to a World Series title.
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D.
Billy Cunningham
Billy Cunningham is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach best known for his starring role with the Philadelphia 76ers in the 1960s and 1970s and later leading the team to an NBA championship as head coach.
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E.
Tito Francona
Tito Francona was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and first baseman who played primarily in the 1950s and 1960s and is also known as the father of manager Terry Francona.
- 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: Vic Raschi Target entity description: Vic Raschi was a dominant right-handed pitcher for the New York Yankees in the 1940s and 1950s, known as one of the "Big Three" starters who helped lead the team to multiple World Series titles.
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A.
Bill Klem
Bill Klem was a pioneering Major League Baseball umpire, often called the "father of modern umpiring," known for his long career and influential role in shaping officiating standards.
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B.
Tuffy Rhodes
Tuffy Rhodes is an American former professional baseball outfielder best known for his prolific power-hitting career in Nippon Professional Baseball, where he tied the single-season home run record.
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C.
Gil Hodges
Gil Hodges was a renowned Major League Baseball first baseman and later manager, best known for his power hitting with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers and for managing the 1969 "Miracle Mets" to a World Series title.
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D.
Billy Cunningham
Billy Cunningham is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach best known for his starring role with the Philadelphia 76ers in the 1960s and 1970s and later leading the team to an NBA championship as head coach.
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E.
Tito Francona
Tito Francona was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and first baseman who played primarily in the 1950s and 1960s and is also known as the father of manager Terry Francona.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball pitcher
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human ⓘ professional baseball player ⓘ |
| allStarSelection |
American League All-Star
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surface form:
1948 American League All-Star
1949 American League All-Star ⓘ 1950 American League All-Star ⓘ 1952 American League All-Star ⓘ |
| bats | right-handed ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1919-03-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1988-10-14 ⓘ |
| debutInLeague | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| era |
1940s
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1950s ⓘ |
| familyName | Raschi ⓘ |
| fullName | Victor John Raschi ⓘ |
| givenName | Victor ⓘ |
| hasPartner |
Allie Reynolds
ⓘ
Eddie Lopat ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Oakland Athletics
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surface form:
Kansas City Athletics
New York Yankees ⓘ St. Louis Cardinals ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Army Air Forces ⓘ |
| MLBDebutTeam | New York Yankees ⓘ |
| nickname | The Springfield Rifle ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being part of Yankees dynasty years
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postseason performances ⓘ power pitching ⓘ |
| notableWork | contributed to multiple New York Yankees World Series championships ⓘ |
| occupation | baseball player ⓘ |
| partOf |
New York Yankees
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surface form:
New York Yankees "Big Three" starting pitchers
New York Yankees starting rotation ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
West Springfield, Massachusetts
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surface form:
West Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
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| placeOfDeath |
Groveland, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Groveland, Massachusetts, United States
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| positionPlayed | pitcher ⓘ |
| residence |
Massachusetts
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surface form:
Massachusetts, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| throws | right-handed ⓘ |
| worldSeriesChampion |
1947 World Series
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1949 World Series ⓘ 1950 World Series ⓘ 1951 World Series ⓘ 1952 World Series ⓘ 1953 World Series ⓘ |
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: Vic Raschi Description of subject: Vic Raschi was a dominant right-handed pitcher for the New York Yankees in the 1940s and 1950s, known as one of the "Big Three" starters who helped lead the team to multiple World Series titles.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Eddie Lopat