Darrell Porter
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Darrell Porter was an American Major League Baseball catcher best known for his standout postseason performances in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including key roles with the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Darrell Porter canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2771462 — 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: Darrell Porter Context triple: [1982 National League pennant, nlcsMVP, Darrell Porter]
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A.
Darrell Rivers
Darrell Rivers is the spirited and sometimes hot-tempered main character of Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers series, following her adventures and growth at an English boarding school.
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B.
Darrell Johnson
Darrell Johnson was an American Major League Baseball manager and former catcher best known for leading the Boston Red Sox to the 1975 American League pennant.
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C.
Darryl Pearson
Darryl Pearson is an American record producer and songwriter known for his work in R&B and hip hop with prominent artists in the 1990s and 2000s.
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D.
Dennis Byrd
Dennis Byrd was an American defensive lineman for the New York Jets whose promising NFL career was tragically cut short by a paralyzing on-field injury, after which he became a symbol of courage and inspiration.
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E.
Roderic Dallas
Roderic Dallas was a distinguished Australian fighter ace of World War I who became one of the leading pilots in British naval aviation.
- 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: Darrell Porter Target entity description: Darrell Porter was an American Major League Baseball catcher best known for his standout postseason performances in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including key roles with the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals.
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A.
Darrell Rivers
Darrell Rivers is the spirited and sometimes hot-tempered main character of Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers series, following her adventures and growth at an English boarding school.
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B.
Darrell Johnson
Darrell Johnson was an American Major League Baseball manager and former catcher best known for leading the Boston Red Sox to the 1975 American League pennant.
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C.
Darryl Pearson
Darryl Pearson is an American record producer and songwriter known for his work in R&B and hip hop with prominent artists in the 1990s and 2000s.
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D.
Dennis Byrd
Dennis Byrd was an American defensive lineman for the New York Jets whose promising NFL career was tragically cut short by a paralyzing on-field injury, after which he became a symbol of courage and inspiration.
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E.
Roderic Dallas
Roderic Dallas was a distinguished Australian fighter ace of World War I who became one of the leading pilots in British naval aviation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball catcher
ⓘ
baseball player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allStarSelection |
1978
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1979 ⓘ 1980 ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
National League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award
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World Series Most Valuable Player Award ⓘ |
| bats | left ⓘ |
| battingAverage | .247 ⓘ |
| battingHand | left-handed batter ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | drug-related accidental death ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-01-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2002-08-05 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Milwaukee Brewers ⓘ |
| draftOverallPick | 4 ⓘ |
| draftRound | 1 ⓘ |
| draftYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| familyName | Porter ⓘ |
| givenName |
Darrell
ⓘ
linked to:
Darryl
|
| hallOfFame | Kansas City Royals Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| homeRuns | 188 ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 12 ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Kansas City Royals
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Milwaukee Brewers ⓘ St. Louis Cardinals ⓘ Texas Rangers ⓘ |
| notableWork |
1978 American League Championship Series performance
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1980 postseason with Kansas City Royals ⓘ 1982 World Series performance ⓘ 1982 postseason with St. Louis Cardinals ⓘ autobiography "Snap Me Perfect" ⓘ |
| occupation | baseball player ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
1980 World Series
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1982 World Series ⓘ Major League Baseball postseason ⓘ
linked to:
MLB playoffs
|
| placeOfBirth |
Joplin, Missouri, United States of America
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linked to:
Joplin, Missouri
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| placeOfDeath |
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
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linked to:
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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| positionPlayed | catcher ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| runsBattedIn | 826 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| throwingHand | right-handed thrower ⓘ |
| throws | right ⓘ |
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: Darrell Porter Description of subject: Darrell Porter was an American Major League Baseball catcher best known for his standout postseason performances in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including key roles with the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.