Official Baseball Rules
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The Official Baseball Rules is the formal rulebook that defines how professional baseball is played and officiated in Major League Baseball.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T49251 — 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: Official Baseball Rules Context triple: [Major League Baseball, governingDocument, Official Baseball Rules]
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Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball is the premier professional baseball organization in North America, comprising teams from the United States and Canada and representing the highest level of play in the sport.
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Industriales (baseball)
Industriales is one of Cuba’s most successful and popular baseball teams, traditionally representing Havana in the Cuban National Series.
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World Series
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball in North America, determining the league's overall champion.
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Curse of the Bambino
Curse of the Bambino is the popular superstition that blamed the Boston Red Sox’s 86-year World Series championship drought on their 1919 sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.
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E.
American League
The American League is one of the two major professional baseball leagues in Major League Baseball, comprising teams primarily based in the United States and Canada.
- 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: Official Baseball Rules Target entity description: The Official Baseball Rules is the formal rulebook that defines how professional baseball is played and officiated in Major League Baseball.
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A.
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball is the premier professional baseball organization in North America, comprising teams from the United States and Canada and representing the highest level of play in the sport.
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B.
Industriales (baseball)
Industriales is one of Cuba’s most successful and popular baseball teams, traditionally representing Havana in the Cuban National Series.
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C.
NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament
The NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament is the annual national championship playoff for top-tier U.S. college baseball teams, culminating in the College World Series.
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D.
World Series
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball in North America, determining the league's overall champion.
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E.
Curse of the Bambino
Curse of the Bambino is the popular superstition that blamed the Boston Red Sox’s 86-year World Series championship drought on their 1919 sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball rulebook
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legal code of the game of baseball ⓘ sports rulebook ⓘ |
| abbreviation | OBR ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Major League Baseball All-Star Game
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linked to:
MLB All-Star Game
Major League Baseball postseason games ⓘ Major League Baseball regular season games ⓘ Minor League Baseball with modifications ⓘ many professional baseball leagues worldwide with adaptations ⓘ |
| defines |
definitions of terms used in Major League Baseball
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duties and powers of umpires in Major League Baseball ⓘ official scoring rules for Major League Baseball ⓘ regulations for equipment used in Major League Baseball ⓘ regulations for playing field layout in Major League Baseball ⓘ rules for balks in Major League Baseball ⓘ rules for balls and strikes in Major League Baseball ⓘ rules for batting order in Major League Baseball ⓘ rules for fair and foul balls in Major League Baseball ⓘ rules for obstruction and interference in Major League Baseball ⓘ rules for outs in Major League Baseball ⓘ rules for protests and forfeits in Major League Baseball ⓘ rules for scoring runs in Major League Baseball ⓘ rules for substitutions in Major League Baseball ⓘ rules of play for Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| governs | professional baseball games in Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| hasSection |
Definitions of Terms
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Game Preliminaries ⓘ Official Scoring Rules ⓘ
linked to:
Official Baseball Rules
Playing Field and Equipment ⓘ Putting the Ball in Play and Dead Ball ⓘ Starting and Ending a Game ⓘ The Batter ⓘ The Pitcher ⓘ The Runner ⓘ The Scorer ⓘ The Umpire ⓘ |
| influenced |
rules of amateur baseball organizations
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rules of international baseball competitions ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
PDF document
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online publication on MLB website ⓘ printed book ⓘ |
| name | Official Baseball Rules ⓘ |
| publishedBy |
Major League Baseball
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Office of the Commissioner of Baseball ⓘ
linked to:
Commissioner of Baseball
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| subjectTo | periodic revision ⓘ |
| updatedBy | Major League Baseball Rules Committee ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Major League Baseball managers
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Major League Baseball players ⓘ Major League Baseball umpires ⓘ official scorers in Major League Baseball ⓘ |
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: Official Baseball Rules Description of subject: The Official Baseball Rules is the formal rulebook that defines how professional baseball is played and officiated in Major League Baseball.
Referenced by (35)
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Major League Baseball rules with postseason modifications
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