2016 Major League Baseball season
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The 2016 Major League Baseball season was the 147th regular season of MLB, culminating in a historic postseason highlighted by the Chicago Cubs ending their 108-year championship drought.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 2016 Major League Baseball season canonical | 4 |
| Major League Baseball season 2016 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T593872 — 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: 2016 Major League Baseball season Context triple: [2016 World Series, seasonOfLeague, 2016 Major League Baseball season]
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2016 World Series
The 2016 World Series was the Major League Baseball championship in which the Chicago Cubs ended their 108-year title drought by defeating the Cleveland Indians in a dramatic seven-game series.
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B.
2013 Major League Baseball season
The 2013 Major League Baseball season was the 144th regular season of MLB, culminating in the Boston Red Sox defeating the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series.
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C.
2008 Major League Baseball season
The 2008 Major League Baseball season was the 109th MLB season, highlighted by the Philadelphia Phillies’ World Series championship and notable individual performances and milestones across both the American and National Leagues.
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MLB regular season
The MLB regular season is the months-long schedule of professional baseball games in which all Major League Baseball teams compete to determine standings and playoff qualification.
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E.
2017 World Series
The 2017 World Series was Major League Baseball’s championship series for the 2017 season, featuring the Houston Astros defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games.
- 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: 2016 Major League Baseball season Target entity description: The 2016 Major League Baseball season was the 147th regular season of MLB, culminating in a historic postseason highlighted by the Chicago Cubs ending their 108-year championship drought.
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A.
2016 World Series
The 2016 World Series was the Major League Baseball championship in which the Chicago Cubs ended their 108-year title drought by defeating the Cleveland Indians in a dramatic seven-game series.
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B.
2013 Major League Baseball season
The 2013 Major League Baseball season was the 144th regular season of MLB, culminating in the Boston Red Sox defeating the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series.
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C.
2008 Major League Baseball season
The 2008 Major League Baseball season was the 109th MLB season, highlighted by the Philadelphia Phillies’ World Series championship and notable individual performances and milestones across both the American and National Leagues.
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D.
MLB regular season
The MLB regular season is the months-long schedule of professional baseball games in which all Major League Baseball teams compete to determine standings and playoff qualification.
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E.
2017 World Series
The 2017 World Series was Major League Baseball’s championship series for the 2017 season, featuring the Houston Astros defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: 2016 Major League Baseball season Description of subject: The 2016 Major League Baseball season was the 147th regular season of MLB, culminating in a historic postseason highlighted by the Chicago Cubs ending their 108-year championship drought.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: 2016 Major League Baseball season