Grainger Stadium

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baseball stadium minor league baseball park sports venue

Grainger Stadium is a historic minor league baseball park in Kinston, North Carolina, known for hosting local and regional baseball teams and events.

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Label	Occurrences
Grainger Stadium canonical	5

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3606930 — 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: Grainger Stadium
Context triple: [Kinston, North Carolina, hasAttraction, Grainger Stadium]

A. Hinchliffe Stadium
Hinchliffe Stadium is a historic sports venue in Paterson, New Jersey, best known as one of the few surviving ballparks that hosted Negro League baseball games.
B. Mack Cook Stadium
Mack Cook Stadium is a local sports venue in Lenoir, North Carolina, primarily used for hosting football games and other community athletic events.
C. Ed Smith Stadium
Ed Smith Stadium is a baseball park in Sarasota, Florida, best known as the spring training home of the Baltimore Orioles.
D. Briggs Stadium
Briggs Stadium was a historic Major League Baseball park in Detroit, best known as the longtime home of the Detroit Tigers before it was renamed Tiger Stadium.
E. Ron Joyce Stadium
Ron Joyce Stadium is a multi-purpose sports facility located at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, primarily used for Canadian football and other athletic events.
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: Grainger Stadium
Target entity description: Grainger Stadium is a historic minor league baseball park in Kinston, North Carolina, known for hosting local and regional baseball teams and events.

A. Hinchliffe Stadium
Hinchliffe Stadium is a historic sports venue in Paterson, New Jersey, best known as one of the few surviving ballparks that hosted Negro League baseball games.
B. Mack Cook Stadium
Mack Cook Stadium is a local sports venue in Lenoir, North Carolina, primarily used for hosting football games and other community athletic events.
C. Ed Smith Stadium
Ed Smith Stadium is a baseball park in Sarasota, Florida, best known as the spring training home of the Baltimore Orioles.
D. Briggs Stadium
Briggs Stadium was a historic Major League Baseball park in Detroit, best known as the longtime home of the Detroit Tigers before it was renamed Tiger Stadium.
E. Ron Joyce Stadium
Ron Joyce Stadium is a multi-purpose sports facility located at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, primarily used for Canadian football and other athletic events.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	baseball stadium ⓘ minor league baseball park ⓘ sports venue ⓘ
city	Kinston ⓘ
communityRole	host for local baseball events ⓘ regional sports attraction ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
county	Lenoir County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ
formerMajorLeagueAffiliation	Chicago White Sox ⓘ Cleveland Indians ⓘ Los Angeles Dodgers ⓘ San Francisco Giants ⓘ Texas Rangers ⓘ Toronto Blue Jays ⓘ
hasConcessions	concession stands ⓘ
hasLighting	stadium lights for night games ⓘ
hasScoreboardType	manual scoreboard ⓘ
hasSeatingType	bleacher seating ⓘ grandstand seating ⓘ
hasTenant	Down East Wood Ducks ⓘ linked to: Down East Wood Ducks (Minor League Baseball)
hostedEvent	college baseball games ⓘ high school baseball games ⓘ minor league baseball games ⓘ regional baseball tournaments ⓘ
hostedTeam	Kinston Blue Jays ⓘ linked to: Kinston Indians (Minor League Baseball) Kinston Dodgers ⓘ Kinston Eagles ⓘ Kinston Eagles (Coastal Plain League) ⓘ linked to: Kinston Eagles Kinston Expos ⓘ Kinston Giants ⓘ linked to: Kinston Dodgers Kinston Indians ⓘ linked to: Kinston Indians (Minor League Baseball) Kinston White Sox ⓘ linked to: Kinston Eagles
isHistoric	true ⓘ
leagueAffiliationHistory	Carolina League ⓘ
location	Kinston, North Carolina ⓘ linked to: Kinston, North Carolina, United States
namedAfter	J. E. Grainger ⓘ
notableFeature	intimate seating bowl ⓘ traditional ballpark design ⓘ
openingDate	1949 ⓘ
operator	City of Kinston ⓘ
owner	City of Kinston ⓘ
primaryUse	baseball ⓘ
renovation	1990s renovation ⓘ 2010s renovation ⓘ
state	North Carolina ⓘ
surface	natural grass ⓘ
tenantLeague	Carolina League ⓘ
tenantLevel	Minor League Baseball ⓘ