1988 World Series
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The 1988 World Series was Major League Baseball’s championship series in which the underdog Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the heavily favored Oakland Athletics, famously highlighted by Kirk Gibson’s dramatic walk-off home run in Game 1.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1988 World Series canonical | 11 |
| 1988 Major League Baseball season | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T343049 — 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)
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Target entity: 1988 World Series Context triple: [1989 World Series, precededBy, 1988 World Series]
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1989 World Series
The 1989 World Series was a Major League Baseball championship between the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants that became infamous for being interrupted by a powerful earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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1983 World Series
The 1983 World Series was Major League Baseball's championship series between the Baltimore Orioles and the Philadelphia Phillies, ultimately won by the Orioles in five games.
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1980 World Series
The 1980 World Series was Major League Baseball’s championship series in which the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Kansas City Royals to win the first World Series title in franchise history.
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1993 World Series
The 1993 World Series was Major League Baseball’s championship series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Philadelphia Phillies, remembered for Joe Carter’s dramatic walk-off home run that clinched a second consecutive title for Toronto.
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E.
2018 World Series
The 2018 World Series was Major League Baseball’s championship series in which the Boston Red Sox defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers to win the title.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: 1988 World Series Target entity description: The 1988 World Series was Major League Baseball’s championship series in which the underdog Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the heavily favored Oakland Athletics, famously highlighted by Kirk Gibson’s dramatic walk-off home run in Game 1.
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A.
1989 World Series
The 1989 World Series was a Major League Baseball championship between the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants that became infamous for being interrupted by a powerful earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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B.
1983 World Series
The 1983 World Series was Major League Baseball's championship series between the Baltimore Orioles and the Philadelphia Phillies, ultimately won by the Orioles in five games.
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C.
1980 World Series
The 1980 World Series was Major League Baseball’s championship series in which the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Kansas City Royals to win the first World Series title in franchise history.
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D.
1993 World Series
The 1993 World Series was Major League Baseball’s championship series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Philadelphia Phillies, remembered for Joe Carter’s dramatic walk-off home run that clinched a second consecutive title for Toronto.
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E.
2018 World Series
The 2018 World Series was Major League Baseball’s championship series in which the Boston Red Sox defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers to win the title.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: 1988 World Series Description of subject: The 1988 World Series was Major League Baseball’s championship series in which the underdog Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the heavily favored Oakland Athletics, famously highlighted by Kirk Gibson’s dramatic walk-off home run in Game 1.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: 1988 World Series