Robert Brown Thomson
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Robert Brown Thomson, better known as Bobby Thomson, was a Scottish-born American Major League Baseball player famed for hitting the legendary 1951 pennant-winning home run dubbed the "Shot Heard 'Round the World."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Brown Thomson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11033861 — 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: Robert Brown Thomson Context triple: [Shot Heard Round the World (baseball), batterFullName, Robert Brown Thomson]
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A.
George Grant Elmslie
George Grant Elmslie was an influential American architect associated with the Prairie School movement, known for his richly ornamented designs and collaborations with Louis Sullivan.
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B.
John Sturgeon
John Sturgeon is an American hunter and conservationist best known for his U.S. Supreme Court case challenging federal authority over state-owned lands in Alaska.
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C.
Robert Dundas Duncan
Robert Dundas Duncan was the son of British Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, and a member of the British aristocracy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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D.
Archibald Murray
Archibald Murray was a British Army general best known for leading early British operations in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, particularly in Egypt and Palestine.
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E.
David Couper Thomson
David Couper Thomson was a Scottish publisher who founded the D.C. Thomson & Co. media company, known for its newspapers, magazines, and comics.
- 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: Robert Brown Thomson Target entity description: Robert Brown Thomson, better known as Bobby Thomson, was a Scottish-born American Major League Baseball player famed for hitting the legendary 1951 pennant-winning home run dubbed the "Shot Heard 'Round the World."
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A.
George Grant Elmslie
George Grant Elmslie was an influential American architect associated with the Prairie School movement, known for his richly ornamented designs and collaborations with Louis Sullivan.
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B.
John Sturgeon
John Sturgeon is an American hunter and conservationist best known for his U.S. Supreme Court case challenging federal authority over state-owned lands in Alaska.
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C.
Robert Dundas Duncan
Robert Dundas Duncan was the son of British Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, and a member of the British aristocracy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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D.
Archibald Murray
Archibald Murray was a British Army general best known for leading early British operations in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, particularly in Egypt and Palestine.
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E.
David Couper Thomson
David Couper Thomson was a Scottish publisher who founded the D.C. Thomson & Co. media company, known for its newspapers, magazines, and comics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball player
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human ⓘ professional baseball player ⓘ |
| achievement | hit famous 1951 playoff home run off Ralph Branca ⓘ |
| bats | right ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Scotland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Thomson ⓘ |
| famousFor |
1951 National League pennant race
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linked to:
1951 National League tie-breaker playoff
hitting the Shot Heard 'Round the World ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| heritage | Scottish-American ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| leagueTitleWon | 1951 National League pennant with New York Giants ⓘ |
| nickname | Bobby Thomson ⓘ |
| notableEvent | 1951 National League pennant-winning home run ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Shot Heard 'Round the World
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linked to:
Shot Heard Round the World
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| occupation | baseball player ⓘ |
| playedIn |
American League
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National League ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
outfielder
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third baseman ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| team |
Baltimore Orioles
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Boston Red Sox ⓘ Chicago Cubs ⓘ Milwaukee Braves ⓘ
linked to:
Atlanta Braves
New York Giants ⓘ |
| throws | right ⓘ |
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: Robert Brown Thomson Description of subject: Robert Brown Thomson, better known as Bobby Thomson, was a Scottish-born American Major League Baseball player famed for hitting the legendary 1951 pennant-winning home run dubbed the "Shot Heard 'Round the World."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Shot Heard Round the World