Spiders
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Spiders was the nickname of the Cleveland Spiders, a late-19th-century Major League Baseball team best known for its historically poor 1899 season.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spiders canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4838653 — 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: Spiders Context triple: [Cleveland Spiders, nickname, Spiders]
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A.
Spiders
The Spiders are the athletic teams representing the University of Richmond in collegiate sports.
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B.
Tarantula
Tarantula is an experimental, stream-of-consciousness prose poetry book by Bob Dylan, reflecting his surreal and avant-garde literary style of the 1960s.
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C.
Pająk
Pająk is a Polish surname borne by various notable individuals, including politicians, athletes, and public figures.
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D.
Harvestman
Harvestman is a post-metal musical project led by Steve Von Till of Neurosis, known for its atmospheric, folk-influenced soundscapes.
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E.
The Spider
The Spider is the English title of the 29th chapter (Surah Al-Ankabut) of the Qur’an, which addresses themes of faith, trials, and the fragility of relying on anything other than God.
- 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: Spiders Target entity description: Spiders was the nickname of the Cleveland Spiders, a late-19th-century Major League Baseball team best known for its historically poor 1899 season.
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A.
Spiders
The Spiders are the athletic teams representing the University of Richmond in collegiate sports.
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B.
Tarantula
Tarantula is an experimental, stream-of-consciousness prose poetry book by Bob Dylan, reflecting his surreal and avant-garde literary style of the 1960s.
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C.
Pająk
Pająk is a Polish surname borne by various notable individuals, including politicians, athletes, and public figures.
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D.
Harvestman
Harvestman is a post-metal musical project led by Steve Von Till of Neurosis, known for its atmospheric, folk-influenced soundscapes.
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E.
The Spider
The Spider is the English title of the 29th chapter (Surah Al-Ankabut) of the Qur’an, which addresses themes of faith, trials, and the fragility of relying on anything other than God.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball pitcher
ⓘ
Major League Baseball season ⓘ Major League Baseball team ⓘ nickname ⓘ |
| activeFrom | 1887 ⓘ |
| activeUntil | 1899 ⓘ |
| ballpark | League Park (Cleveland) ⓘ |
| city | Cleveland ⓘ |
| cityRepresented |
Cleveland, Ohio
ⓘ
linked to:
Cleveland
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| disbanded | 1899 ⓘ |
| division |
National League (no divisions era)
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linked to:
National League
|
| era | 19th-century baseball team ⓘ |
| finalMajorLeagueSeason | 1899 ⓘ |
| firstMajorLeagueSeason | 1887 ⓘ |
| formerName |
Cleveland Blues
ⓘ
linked to:
Cleveland Blue Stockings
|
| gamesPlayed | 154 ⓘ |
| homeField | League Park ⓘ |
| homeGamesPlayedElsewhereIn1899 | most games on the road ⓘ |
| joinedNationalLeague | 1889 ⓘ |
| league | National League ⓘ |
| leagueStatus | defunct ⓘ |
| location |
Cleveland, Ohio
ⓘ
linked to:
Cleveland
|
| losses | 134 ⓘ |
| nickname | Spiders ⓘ |
| notableFor | historically poor 1899 season ⓘ |
| notablePlayer | Cy Young ⓘ |
| notableRecord | fewest wins in a modern MLB season ⓘ |
| notableSeason |
1899 Cleveland Spiders season
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linked to:
Cleveland Spiders
|
| owner |
Frank Robison
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linked to:
Frank De Haas Robison
Stanley Robison ⓘ |
| reasonForPoor1899Season | roster stripped in favor of St. Louis Perfectos ⓘ |
| recordType | worst single-season record in Major League Baseball history by winning percentage ⓘ |
| refersTo | Cleveland Spiders ⓘ |
| seasonCount | 13 ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| state | Ohio ⓘ |
| status | defunct Major League Baseball team ⓘ |
| team | Cleveland Spiders ⓘ |
| teamColor |
brown
ⓘ
red ⓘ |
| winningPercentage | .130 ⓘ |
| wins | 20 ⓘ |
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: Spiders Description of subject: Spiders was the nickname of the Cleveland Spiders, a late-19th-century Major League Baseball team best known for its historically poor 1899 season.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.