David Eckstein
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David Eckstein is a former Major League Baseball shortstop known for his scrappy, high-effort play and key postseason performances, particularly with the St. Louis Cardinals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Eckstein canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1167376 — 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: David Eckstein Context triple: [2006 World Series, mostValuablePlayer, David Eckstein]
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A.
Troy Glaus
Troy Glaus is a former Major League Baseball third baseman best known for his power hitting, including leading the American League in home runs in 2000 and earning World Series MVP honors in 2002.
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B.
Jason Freese
Jason Freese is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist best known for his extensive session and touring work, particularly as a keyboardist and saxophonist with bands like Green Day and related side projects.
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C.
Chris Stolte
Chris Stolte is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former chief development officer of the data visualization company Tableau Software.
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D.
Clay Morrow
Clay Morrow is a central fictional character in the television series "Sons of Anarchy," known as the manipulative and often ruthless president of the outlaw motorcycle club at the heart of the show.
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E.
Garret Anderson
Garret Anderson is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and three-time All-Star best known for his long, productive career with the Angels, with whom he won a World Series in 2002.
- 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: David Eckstein Target entity description: David Eckstein is a former Major League Baseball shortstop known for his scrappy, high-effort play and key postseason performances, particularly with the St. Louis Cardinals.
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A.
Troy Glaus
Troy Glaus is a former Major League Baseball third baseman best known for his power hitting, including leading the American League in home runs in 2000 and earning World Series MVP honors in 2002.
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B.
Jason Freese
Jason Freese is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist best known for his extensive session and touring work, particularly as a keyboardist and saxophonist with bands like Green Day and related side projects.
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C.
Chris Stolte
Chris Stolte is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former chief development officer of the data visualization company Tableau Software.
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D.
Clay Morrow
Clay Morrow is a central fictional character in the television series "Sons of Anarchy," known as the manipulative and often ruthless president of the outlaw motorcycle club at the heart of the show.
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E.
Garret Anderson
Garret Anderson is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and three-time All-Star best known for his long, productive career with the Angels, with whom he won a World Series in 2002.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball player
ⓘ
human ⓘ professional baseball player ⓘ |
| awardReceived | World Series Most Valuable Player Award ⓘ |
| bats | right ⓘ |
| battingOrderRole | top-of-the-order hitter ⓘ |
| championship | World Series champion ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | University of Florida ⓘ |
| collegeTeam |
Florida Gators baseball team
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linked to:
Florida Gators baseball
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| familyName | Eckstein ⓘ |
| fullName | David Mark Eckstein ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| isA |
World Series champion shortstop
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former Anaheim Angels player ⓘ former San Diego Padres player ⓘ former St. Louis Cardinals player ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being an undersized but effective infielder
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strong work ethic ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| notableFor |
key postseason performances
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postseason performances with the St. Louis Cardinals ⓘ scrappy high-effort playing style ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball player
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second baseman ⓘ shortstop ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Anaheim Angels
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linked to:
Los Angeles Angels
Arizona Diamondbacks ⓘ Los Angeles Angels ⓘ San Diego Padres ⓘ St. Louis Cardinals ⓘ Toronto Blue Jays ⓘ |
| playedIn |
American League
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National League ⓘ |
| position |
second base
ⓘ
shortstop ⓘ |
| role | leadoff hitter ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| styleOfPlay |
contact hitter
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gritty player ⓘ high-effort player ⓘ |
| teamAchievement |
won World Series with Anaheim Angels
ⓘ
won World Series with St. Louis Cardinals ⓘ |
| throws | right ⓘ |
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: David Eckstein Description of subject: David Eckstein is a former Major League Baseball shortstop known for his scrappy, high-effort play and key postseason performances, particularly with the St. Louis Cardinals.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.