Roger Maris
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Roger Maris was an American Major League Baseball outfielder best known for breaking Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record by hitting 61 homers in 1961 for the New York Yankees.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roger Maris canonical | 15 |
| Babe Ruth single-season home run record | 1 |
| Roger Eugene Maris | 1 |
| Roger Maris in 61* | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T553087 — 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: Roger Maris Context triple: [Mickey Mantle, notableTeammate, Roger Maris]
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Mickey Mantle
Mickey Mantle was a legendary Hall of Fame switch-hitting center fielder widely regarded as one of the greatest players in baseball history.
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B.
Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio was an American Hall of Fame center fielder renowned for his 56-game hitting streak and his storied career in Major League Baseball.
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C.
Reggie Jackson
Reggie Jackson is a Hall of Fame American baseball slugger, nicknamed "Mr. October" for his clutch postseason performances, particularly with the New York Yankees in the 1970s.
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D.
Willie Mays
Willie Mays is a legendary Hall of Fame center fielder widely regarded as one of the greatest baseball players in MLB history.
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E.
Eddie Lopat
Eddie Lopat was a crafty left-handed pitcher for the New York Yankees in the 1940s and 1950s, known for his control and off-speed repertoire as part of the famed "Big Three" pitching staff with Allie Reynolds and Vic Raschi.
- 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: Roger Maris Target entity description: Roger Maris was an American Major League Baseball outfielder best known for breaking Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record by hitting 61 homers in 1961 for the New York Yankees.
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A.
Mickey Mantle
Mickey Mantle was a legendary Hall of Fame switch-hitting center fielder widely regarded as one of the greatest players in baseball history.
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B.
Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio was an American Hall of Fame center fielder renowned for his 56-game hitting streak and his storied career in Major League Baseball.
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C.
Reggie Jackson
Reggie Jackson is a Hall of Fame American baseball slugger, nicknamed "Mr. October" for his clutch postseason performances, particularly with the New York Yankees in the 1970s.
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D.
Willie Mays
Willie Mays is a legendary Hall of Fame center fielder widely regarded as one of the greatest baseball players in MLB history.
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E.
Eddie Lopat
Eddie Lopat was a crafty left-handed pitcher for the New York Yankees in the 1940s and 1950s, known for his control and off-speed repertoire as part of the famed "Big Three" pitching staff with Allie Reynolds and Vic Raschi.
- 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: Roger Maris Description of subject: Roger Maris was an American Major League Baseball outfielder best known for breaking Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record by hitting 61 homers in 1961 for the New York Yankees.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Roger Maris
linked to: Roger Maris
subject linked to:
1961 World Series games
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Hammerin’ Hank
linked to: Roger Maris