Elmer Smith
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Elmer Smith was an American Major League Baseball outfielder best known for hitting the first grand slam in World Series history during the 1920 Fall Classic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elmer Smith canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10099288 — 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: Elmer Smith Context triple: [1920 World Series, firstGrandSlamInWorldSeriesHistoryBy, Elmer Smith]
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A.
Elmer Winter
Elmer Winter was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Manpower Inc., one of the world’s largest staffing and workforce solutions companies.
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B.
Elmer Imes
Elmer Imes was an American physicist renowned as one of the first African Americans to earn a Ph.D. in physics and for his pioneering work in molecular spectroscopy.
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C.
Elmer Booth
Elmer Booth was an early 20th-century American silent film actor known for his dynamic performances in pioneering gangster and crime dramas.
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D.
Lewis Branscomb
Lewis Branscomb was an American physicist and influential science and technology policy leader known for his work at the intersection of research, innovation, and public policy.
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E.
Samuel Franklin Emmons
Samuel Franklin Emmons was a prominent 19th-century American geologist and explorer known for his influential surveys of the American West and contributions to the understanding of its mineral resources.
- 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: Elmer Smith Target entity description: Elmer Smith was an American Major League Baseball outfielder best known for hitting the first grand slam in World Series history during the 1920 Fall Classic.
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A.
Elmer Winter
Elmer Winter was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Manpower Inc., one of the world’s largest staffing and workforce solutions companies.
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B.
Elmer Imes
Elmer Imes was an American physicist renowned as one of the first African Americans to earn a Ph.D. in physics and for his pioneering work in molecular spectroscopy.
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C.
Elmer Booth
Elmer Booth was an early 20th-century American silent film actor known for his dynamic performances in pioneering gangster and crime dramas.
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D.
Lewis Branscomb
Lewis Branscomb was an American physicist and influential science and technology policy leader known for his work at the intersection of research, innovation, and public policy.
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E.
Samuel Franklin Emmons
Samuel Franklin Emmons was a prominent 19th-century American geologist and explorer known for his influential surveys of the American West and contributions to the understanding of its mineral resources.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball player
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baseball outfielder ⓘ human ⓘ |
| achievement | hit first grand slam in World Series history ⓘ |
| bats | left ⓘ |
| battedGrandSlamIn | Game 5 of the 1920 World Series ⓘ |
| battingAverage | approximately .276 in MLB career ⓘ |
| battingStyle | left-handed ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1892-09-21 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Sandusky, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1984-08-03 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Columbus, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| debutLeague | Major League Baseball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 20th-century baseball player ⓘ |
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| givenName | Elmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandSlamOpponentTeam | Brooklyn Robins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandSlamPitcherFaced | Burleigh Grimes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeRuns | over 60 career home runs in MLB ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | unknown ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| notableEvent | 1920 World Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | hitting the first grand slam in World Series history ⓘ |
| notableGame | Game 5 of the 1920 World Series at League Park in Cleveland ⓘ |
| occupation | baseball player ⓘ |
| playedForFranchise |
Boston Red Sox franchise
NERFINISHED
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Cincinnati Reds franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ Cleveland Indians franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Yankees franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington Senators franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | outfielder ⓘ |
| runsBattedIn | over 400 career RBIs in MLB ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| team |
Boston Red Sox
NERFINISHED
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Cincinnati Reds NERFINISHED ⓘ Cleveland Indians NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Yankees NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington Senators NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| throwingStyle | left-handed ⓘ |
| throws | left ⓘ |
| worldSeriesTitle | 1920 World Series champion ⓘ |
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: Elmer Smith Description of subject: Elmer Smith was an American Major League Baseball outfielder best known for hitting the first grand slam in World Series history during the 1920 Fall Classic.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.