Harry Kalas
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Harry Kalas was a renowned American sportscaster best known as the longtime play-by-play voice of the Philadelphia Phillies and a prominent narrator for NFL Films.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harry Kalas canonical | 5 |
| Harold Norbert Kalas | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4376673 — 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: Harry Kalas Context triple: [NFL Films, employer, Harry Kalas]
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A.
Jack Buck
Jack Buck was a renowned American sportscaster best known for his long tenure as the voice of the St. Louis Cardinals and his iconic calls in Major League Baseball.
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B.
Marty Brennaman
Marty Brennaman is an American sportscaster best known as the longtime radio play-by-play voice of the Cincinnati Reds.
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C.
Curt Gowdy
Curt Gowdy was a prominent American sportscaster renowned for his play-by-play coverage of major events across multiple sports on network television from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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D.
Marv Ross
Marv Ross is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band Quarterflash.
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E.
Cam Neely
Cam Neely is a Hall of Fame Canadian power forward renowned for his prolific scoring, physical play, and later role as an executive with the Boston Bruins in the NHL.
- 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: Harry Kalas Target entity description: Harry Kalas was a renowned American sportscaster best known as the longtime play-by-play voice of the Philadelphia Phillies and a prominent narrator for NFL Films.
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A.
Jack Buck
Jack Buck was a renowned American sportscaster best known for his long tenure as the voice of the St. Louis Cardinals and his iconic calls in Major League Baseball.
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B.
Marty Brennaman
Marty Brennaman is an American sportscaster best known as the longtime radio play-by-play voice of the Cincinnati Reds.
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C.
Curt Gowdy
Curt Gowdy was a prominent American sportscaster renowned for his play-by-play coverage of major events across multiple sports on network television from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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D.
Marv Ross
Marv Ross is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band Quarterflash.
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E.
Cam Neely
Cam Neely is a Hall of Fame Canadian power forward renowned for his prolific scoring, physical play, and later role as an executive with the Boston Bruins in the NHL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball announcer
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human ⓘ radio personality ⓘ sportscaster ⓘ television personality ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Iowa ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Ford C. Frick Award
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Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame induction ⓘ Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame induction ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart disease ⓘ |
| child |
Brad Kalas
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Kane Kalas ⓘ Todd Kalas ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coveredLeague |
Major League Baseball
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National Football League ⓘ |
| coveredTeam |
Houston Astros
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Philadelphia Phillies ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1936-03-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2009-04-13 ⓘ |
| employer |
Hawaii Islanders
ⓘ
Houston Astros ⓘ NFL Films ⓘ Philadelphia Phillies ⓘ |
| endTime | Philadelphia Phillies play-by-play announcer 2009 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | sports broadcasting ⓘ |
| fullName |
Harold Norbert Kalas
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linked to:
Harry Kalas
|
| genre |
American football narration
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baseball broadcasting ⓘ |
| givenName | Harold ⓘ |
| hasHonor |
Phillies Wall of Fame induction
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linked to:
Philadelphia Phillies Wall of Fame
broadcast booth at Citizens Bank Park named in his honor ⓘ statue at Citizens Bank Park ⓘ |
| knownFor | signature home run call "Outta here!" ⓘ |
| memberOf |
National Baseball Hall of Fame broadcasters (Ford C. Frick Award recipients)
ⓘ
linked to:
Ford C. Frick Award
|
| militaryService | United States Army ⓘ |
| nickname | Harry Kalas ⓘ |
| notableFor |
longtime play-by-play voice of the Philadelphia Phillies
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prominent narrator for NFL Films ⓘ |
| occupation |
narrator
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play-by-play announcer ⓘ sportscaster ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Naperville, Illinois, United States
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linked to:
Naperville, Illinois
|
| placeOfDeath |
Washington, D.C., United States
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linked to:
Washington, D.C.
|
| residence |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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linked to:
Philadelphia
|
| spouse | Eileen Kalas ⓘ |
| startTime | Philadelphia Phillies play-by-play announcer 1971 ⓘ |
| voiceType | distinctive baritone voice ⓘ |
| workedOn |
NFL Films highlight films
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Philadelphia Phillies radio broadcasts ⓘ Philadelphia Phillies television broadcasts ⓘ |
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: Harry Kalas Description of subject: Harry Kalas was a renowned American sportscaster best known as the longtime play-by-play voice of the Philadelphia Phillies and a prominent narrator for NFL Films.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Harry Kalas