Tom Cheek
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Tom Cheek was a celebrated Canadian baseball broadcaster best known as the longtime radio voice of the Toronto Blue Jays.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Cheek canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4032531 — 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: Tom Cheek Context triple: [Ford C. Frick Award, hasNotableRecipient, Tom Cheek]
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A.
Hank Cicalo
Hank Cicalo is a recording engineer best known for his work on influential rock and pop albums, including projects with artists like Carole King and The Monkees.
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B.
Dick Hantak
Dick Hantak is a former National Football League official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl XXVII.
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C.
Chris Lemmon
Chris Lemmon is an American actor and author, known for his work in film and television and for being the son of acclaimed actor Jack Lemmon.
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D.
Jim Harrick
Jim Harrick is an American college basketball coach best known for leading UCLA to the 1995 NCAA championship.
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E.
Charlie Cappa
Charlie Cappa is the conflicted small-time hood and devout yet morally torn protagonist of Martin Scorsese’s crime drama film "Mean Streets."
- 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: Tom Cheek Target entity description: Tom Cheek was a celebrated Canadian baseball broadcaster best known as the longtime radio voice of the Toronto Blue Jays.
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A.
Hank Cicalo
Hank Cicalo is a recording engineer best known for his work on influential rock and pop albums, including projects with artists like Carole King and The Monkees.
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B.
Dick Hantak
Dick Hantak is a former National Football League official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl XXVII.
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C.
Chris Lemmon
Chris Lemmon is an American actor and author, known for his work in film and television and for being the son of acclaimed actor Jack Lemmon.
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D.
Jim Harrick
Jim Harrick is an American college basketball coach best known for leading UCLA to the 1995 NCAA championship.
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E.
Charlie Cappa
Charlie Cappa is the conflicted small-time hood and devout yet morally torn protagonist of Martin Scorsese’s crime drama film "Mean Streets."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball broadcaster
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human ⓘ radio personality ⓘ sports broadcaster ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Blue Jays radio network
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linked to:
Toronto Blue Jays Radio Network
Canadian baseball ⓘ Rogers Centre ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Blue Jays Level of Excellence honour
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Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame induction ⓘ Ford C. Frick Award ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coveredLeague | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| coveredTeam | Toronto Blue Jays ⓘ |
| employer |
CJCL
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Major League Baseball on radio ⓘ Telemedia ⓘ Toronto Blue Jays ⓘ |
| familyName | Cheek ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | baseball broadcasting ⓘ |
| fullName | Thomas F. Cheek ⓘ |
| genre | sports broadcasting ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| hasHonor | name on the Blue Jays Level of Excellence at Rogers Centre ⓘ |
| hasRole |
play-by-play commentator
ⓘ
radio announcer ⓘ |
| influenced | later generations of Canadian baseball broadcasters ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | radio ⓘ |
| memorial | Tom Cheek Award (for perseverance in baseball broadcasting) ⓘ |
| notableCall | Joe Carter’s 1993 World Series-winning home run ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the longtime radio voice of the Toronto Blue Jays
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calling every Toronto Blue Jays regular-season game from 1977 to 2004 ⓘ consecutive games broadcast streak for the Toronto Blue Jays ⓘ |
| notableWork | Toronto Blue Jays radio play-by-play ⓘ |
| occupation |
play-by-play announcer
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radio broadcaster ⓘ sportscaster ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | Toronto ⓘ |
| positionHeld | radio voice of the Toronto Blue Jays ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Canada
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Ontario ⓘ |
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: Tom Cheek Description of subject: Tom Cheek was a celebrated Canadian baseball broadcaster best known as the longtime radio voice of the Toronto Blue Jays.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.