Howard Jonathan Ehmke
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Howard Jonathan Ehmke was an American Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his surprise starting role and record-setting strikeout performance in Game 1 of the 1929 World Series for the Philadelphia Athletics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howard Jonathan Ehmke canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9535795 — 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: Howard Jonathan Ehmke Context triple: [Howard Ehmke, fullName, Howard Jonathan Ehmke]
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A.
Eric Hinske
Eric Hinske is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and outfielder who played for multiple teams and later became a hitting coach.
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B.
Adam Bohling
Adam Bohling is a British film producer known for his work on high-profile action and genre films, including the Kingsman series.
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C.
John Hoberg
John Hoberg is an American television and film writer known for his work on animated and live-action projects, including co-writing the Pixar film "Elemental."
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D.
Jonathan Wiedemann
Jonathan Wiedemann is a former model and the ex-husband of Italian actress and model Isabella Rossellini.
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E.
Chris Weinke
Chris Weinke is a former American football quarterback best known for leading Florida State University to a national championship and winning the Heisman Trophy before playing in the NFL.
- 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: Howard Jonathan Ehmke Target entity description: Howard Jonathan Ehmke was an American Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his surprise starting role and record-setting strikeout performance in Game 1 of the 1929 World Series for the Philadelphia Athletics.
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A.
Eric Hinske
Eric Hinske is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and outfielder who played for multiple teams and later became a hitting coach.
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B.
Adam Bohling
Adam Bohling is a British film producer known for his work on high-profile action and genre films, including the Kingsman series.
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C.
John Hoberg
John Hoberg is an American television and film writer known for his work on animated and live-action projects, including co-writing the Pixar film "Elemental."
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D.
Jonathan Wiedemann
Jonathan Wiedemann is a former model and the ex-husband of Italian actress and model Isabella Rossellini.
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E.
Chris Weinke
Chris Weinke is a former American football quarterback best known for leading Florida State University to a national championship and winning the Heisman Trophy before playing in the NFL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball pitcher
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human ⓘ |
| bestKnownFor |
striking out a then-record number of batters in a World Series game
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surprise starting role in Game 1 of the 1929 World Series ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
German American
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linked to:
German Americans
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| familyName | Ehmke ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
professional baseball pitching
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professional sports ⓘ |
| givenName | Howard ⓘ |
| handedness | right-handed pitcher ⓘ |
| hasAchievement | World Series single-game strikeout record at the time ⓘ |
| hasPartInBiography | late-career World Series appearance with the Philadelphia Athletics ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf |
Philadelphia Athletics team histories
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historical accounts of the 1929 World Series ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Philadelphia Athletics ⓘ |
| middleName | Jonathan ⓘ |
| notableFor |
record-setting strikeout performance in Game 1 of the 1929 World Series
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starting pitcher in Game 1 of the 1929 World Series ⓘ |
| occupation | baseball player ⓘ |
| playedForTeam | Philadelphia Athletics ⓘ |
| playedIn | 1929 World Series ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | pitcher ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | starting pitcher in Game 1 of the 1929 World Series ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| sportingNationality | American ⓘ |
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: Howard Jonathan Ehmke Description of subject: Howard Jonathan Ehmke was an American Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his surprise starting role and record-setting strikeout performance in Game 1 of the 1929 World Series for the Philadelphia Athletics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.