Colby Lewis
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Colby Lewis is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his tenure with the Texas Rangers, including key contributions to their World Series appearances in 2010 and 2011.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Colby Lewis canonical | 2 |
| Colby Preston Lewis | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3715546 — 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: Colby Lewis Context triple: [Bakersfield High School, notableAlumnus, Colby Lewis]
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A.
Kyle Gibson
Kyle Gibson is an American professional baseball pitcher who has played in Major League Baseball for multiple teams, including the Minnesota Twins, Texas Rangers, and Philadelphia Phillies.
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B.
Trevor Bauer
Trevor Bauer is an American professional baseball pitcher known for his high strikeout rates, analytical approach to pitching, and a Cy Young Award–winning season in Major League Baseball.
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C.
Patrick Corbin
Patrick Corbin is an American left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his key role with the Washington Nationals during their 2019 championship season.
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D.
Garret Price
Garret Price is a documentary filmmaker best known for directing the acclaimed film "Love, Antosha" about the life and career of actor Anton Yelchin.
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E.
Paul Mejia
Paul Mejia is a former ballet dancer and choreographer, known for his work with major American ballet companies and his marriage to renowned ballerina Suzanne Farrell.
- 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: Colby Lewis Target entity description: Colby Lewis is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his tenure with the Texas Rangers, including key contributions to their World Series appearances in 2010 and 2011.
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A.
Kyle Gibson
Kyle Gibson is an American professional baseball pitcher who has played in Major League Baseball for multiple teams, including the Minnesota Twins, Texas Rangers, and Philadelphia Phillies.
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B.
Trevor Bauer
Trevor Bauer is an American professional baseball pitcher known for his high strikeout rates, analytical approach to pitching, and a Cy Young Award–winning season in Major League Baseball.
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C.
Patrick Corbin
Patrick Corbin is an American left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his key role with the Washington Nationals during their 2019 championship season.
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D.
Garret Price
Garret Price is a documentary filmmaker best known for directing the acclaimed film "Love, Antosha" about the life and career of actor Anton Yelchin.
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E.
Paul Mejia
Paul Mejia is a former ballet dancer and choreographer, known for his work with major American ballet companies and his marriage to renowned ballerina Suzanne Farrell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball player
ⓘ
human ⓘ pitcher ⓘ |
| bats | right ⓘ |
| birthName |
Colby Preston Lewis
ⓘ
linked to:
Colby Lewis
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1979-08-02 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Texas Rangers ⓘ |
| draftedFrom | Bakersfield College ⓘ |
| draftPickOverall | 38 ⓘ |
| draftRound | 1st round supplemental ⓘ |
| draftYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| education | Bakersfield College ⓘ |
| familyName | Lewis ⓘ |
| finalMLBgameDate | 2016-09-28 ⓘ |
| finalMLBteam | Texas Rangers ⓘ |
| fullName |
Colby Preston Lewis
ⓘ
linked to:
Colby Lewis
|
| givenName | Colby ⓘ |
| helpedTeamReach |
2010 World Series
ⓘ
2011 World Series ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
key contributions to Texas Rangers 2010 World Series appearance
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key contributions to Texas Rangers 2011 World Series appearance ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 48 ⓘ |
| leaguePlayedIn |
Major League Baseball
ⓘ
Nippon Professional Baseball ⓘ |
| MLBdebutDate | 2002-08-02 ⓘ |
| MLBdebutTeam | Texas Rangers ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
starting pitcher in 2010 American League Championship Series
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starting pitcher in 2011 American League Championship Series ⓘ |
| NPBdebutTeam | Hiroshima Toyo Carp ⓘ |
| occupation | former professional baseball pitcher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Bakersfield, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Bakersfield
|
| playedFor |
Detroit Tigers
ⓘ
Hiroshima Toyo Carp ⓘ Oakland Athletics ⓘ Texas Rangers ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | pitcher ⓘ |
| retiredFrom | professional baseball ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| teamTenure |
Detroit Tigers 2006
ⓘ
Hiroshima Toyo Carp 2008–2009 ⓘ Oakland Athletics 2007 ⓘ Texas Rangers 2002–2004 ⓘ Texas Rangers 2010–2016 ⓘ |
| throws | right ⓘ |
| worldSeriesTeam | Texas Rangers ⓘ |
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: Colby Lewis Description of subject: Colby Lewis is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his tenure with the Texas Rangers, including key contributions to their World Series appearances in 2010 and 2011.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Colby Lewis
linked to: Colby Lewis