Peter Ueberroth
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Peter Ueberroth is an American sports executive and businessman best known for organizing the highly profitable 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and later serving as Major League Baseball’s commissioner in the 1980s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Ueberroth canonical | 8 |
| Ueberroth | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T182920 — 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)
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Target entity: Peter Ueberroth Context triple: [Commissioner of Baseball, notableHolder, Peter Ueberroth]
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A.
Bowie Kuhn
Bowie Kuhn was an American lawyer and sports executive who served as the fifth Commissioner of Major League Baseball from 1969 to 1984, overseeing a period of significant expansion, labor conflict, and modernization in the sport.
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B.
Bob Miner
Bob Miner was an American software engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Oracle Corporation and a key architect of its early database technology.
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C.
Dave Dombrowski
Dave Dombrowski is a veteran Major League Baseball executive known for building multiple pennant- and World Series–contending teams with several franchises.
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D.
Gary Bettman
Gary Bettman is the longtime commissioner of the National Hockey League, known for overseeing its expansion, labor disputes, and major broadcast and revenue growth since the 1990s.
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E.
George Steinbrenner
George Steinbrenner was the longtime, famously demanding principal owner of the New York Yankees who transformed the franchise into a modern sports powerhouse.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Peter Ueberroth Target entity description: Peter Ueberroth is an American sports executive and businessman best known for organizing the highly profitable 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and later serving as Major League Baseball’s commissioner in the 1980s.
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A.
Bowie Kuhn
Bowie Kuhn was an American lawyer and sports executive who served as the fifth Commissioner of Major League Baseball from 1969 to 1984, overseeing a period of significant expansion, labor conflict, and modernization in the sport.
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B.
Bob Miner
Bob Miner was an American software engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Oracle Corporation and a key architect of its early database technology.
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C.
Dave Dombrowski
Dave Dombrowski is a veteran Major League Baseball executive known for building multiple pennant- and World Series–contending teams with several franchises.
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D.
Gary Bettman
Gary Bettman is the longtime commissioner of the National Hockey League, known for overseeing its expansion, labor disputes, and major broadcast and revenue growth since the 1990s.
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E.
George Steinbrenner
George Steinbrenner was the longtime, famously demanding principal owner of the New York Yankees who transformed the franchise into a modern sports powerhouse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic Games organizer
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businessperson ⓘ human ⓘ sports executive ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
The Olympic Order
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linked to:
Olympic Order
Time Person of the Year ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Ambassadors International
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Hilton Hotels Corporation ⓘ The Coca-Cola Company ⓘ The Irvine Company ⓘ |
| business | First Travel Corporation ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Fremont High School (Sunnyvale, California)
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San Jose State University ⓘ |
| familyName |
Ueberroth
ⓘ
linked to:
Peter Ueberroth
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| fieldOfWork |
business management
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sports management ⓘ |
| givenName | Peter ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative Olympic sponsorship model
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serving as Commissioner of Major League Baseball ⓘ turning the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics into a financial success ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Republican Party (United States)
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linked to:
Republican Party
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| notableAchievement | made the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics highly profitable ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
helped leave a surplus from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics that funded youth sports programs in Southern California
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helped secure corporate sponsorships for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics ⓘ oversaw Major League Baseball during the 1985–1987 collusion cases ⓘ |
| notableWork |
leadership of Major League Baseball during the mid-1980s
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organization of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles ⓘ
linked to:
1984 Summer Olympics
role in restructuring Olympic sponsorship and television rights ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball executive
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business executive ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ sports executive ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Commissioner of Major League Baseball
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chairman of the United States Olympic Committee ⓘ co-chair of the Commission on the Reform of the International Olympic Committee ⓘ president of First Travel Corporation ⓘ president of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee ⓘ |
| residence |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sportsDisciplineManaged |
Olympic sports
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baseball ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Peter Ueberroth Description of subject: Peter Ueberroth is an American sports executive and businessman best known for organizing the highly profitable 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and later serving as Major League Baseball’s commissioner in the 1980s.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Peter Ueberroth