Edgar Frederick Yost III
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Edgar Frederick "Ned" Yost III is a former Major League Baseball catcher and manager best known for leading the Kansas City Royals to the 2015 World Series championship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edgar Frederick Yost III canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3301539 — 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: Edgar Frederick Yost III Context triple: [Ned Yost, fullName, Edgar Frederick Yost III]
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A.
Billy Keller
Billy Keller is a former American professional basketball guard best known for his sharpshooting and key role on the Indiana Pacers’ championship teams in the American Basketball Association.
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B.
Dwight Morrow
Dwight Morrow was an American lawyer, banker, and diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and later as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
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C.
Lloyd Waner
Lloyd Waner was a speedy, contact-hitting center fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates and a Baseball Hall of Famer known for his exceptional defense and ability to get on base.
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D.
Carl Hubbell
Carl Hubbell was a Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher famed for his devastating screwball and dominance with the New York Giants during the 1930s.
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E.
Frank Nighbor
Frank Nighbor was a pioneering early 20th-century Canadian ice hockey star renowned for his exceptional two-way play and sportsmanship in the National Hockey League.
- 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: Edgar Frederick Yost III Target entity description: Edgar Frederick "Ned" Yost III is a former Major League Baseball catcher and manager best known for leading the Kansas City Royals to the 2015 World Series championship.
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A.
Billy Keller
Billy Keller is a former American professional basketball guard best known for his sharpshooting and key role on the Indiana Pacers’ championship teams in the American Basketball Association.
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B.
Dwight Morrow
Dwight Morrow was an American lawyer, banker, and diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and later as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
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C.
Lloyd Waner
Lloyd Waner was a speedy, contact-hitting center fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates and a Baseball Hall of Famer known for his exceptional defense and ability to get on base.
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D.
Carl Hubbell
Carl Hubbell was a Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher famed for his devastating screwball and dominance with the New York Giants during the 1930s.
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E.
Frank Nighbor
Frank Nighbor was a pioneering early 20th-century Canadian ice hockey star renowned for his exceptional two-way play and sportsmanship in the National Hockey League.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball catcher
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World Series champion manager ⓘ baseball manager ⓘ baseball player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Atlanta Braves
ⓘ
Atlanta Braves (coach) ⓘ
linked to:
Atlanta Braves
California Angels ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles Angels
Kansas City Royals ⓘ Kansas City Royals (as player) ⓘ
linked to:
Kansas City Royals
Kansas City Royals (manager) ⓘ
linked to:
Kansas City Royals
Milwaukee Brewers ⓘ Milwaukee Brewers (as player) ⓘ
linked to:
Milwaukee Brewers
Milwaukee Brewers (manager) ⓘ Montreal Expos (minor leagues) ⓘ
linked to:
Montreal Expos
New York Mets ⓘ Texas Rangers ⓘ |
| familyName | Yost ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
professional baseball playing
ⓘ
professional sports coaching ⓘ |
| givenName | Edgar ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| leagueTitleWonAsManager |
2014 American League pennant
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2015 World Series ⓘ |
| managedInLeague | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| managedTeamToWorldSeriesAppearance | Kansas City Royals ⓘ |
| managedTeamToWorldSeriesTitle | Kansas City Royals ⓘ |
| middleName | Frederick ⓘ |
| nickname | Ned ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
led the Kansas City Royals to the 2014 American League pennant
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led the Kansas City Royals to the 2015 World Series title ⓘ |
| notableFor |
postseason bullpen management with the Kansas City Royals
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transforming the Kansas City Royals into a championship team ⓘ |
| notableWork | managing the Kansas City Royals to the 2015 World Series championship ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball manager
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baseball player ⓘ |
| playedInLeague | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | catcher ⓘ |
| retiredFrom | Major League Baseball managing ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| teamManaged |
Kansas City Royals
ⓘ
Milwaukee Brewers ⓘ |
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: Edgar Frederick Yost III Description of subject: Edgar Frederick "Ned" Yost III is a former Major League Baseball catcher and manager best known for leading the Kansas City Royals to the 2015 World Series championship.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.