Harry Frazee
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Harry Frazee was an American theatrical producer and owner of the Boston Red Sox, best known for selling Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harry Frazee canonical | 2 |
| Harry Frazee Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11464472 — 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: Harry Frazee Context triple: [Worcester Academy, hasAlumni, Harry Frazee]
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A.
Joseph H. Lewis
Joseph H. Lewis was an American film director best known for his stylish, low-budget B movies and film noirs, including the cult classic "Gun Crazy."
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B.
Earl Holliman
Earl Holliman is an American actor known for his prolific film and television career from the 1950s onward, including notable roles in movies like "The Rainmaker" and "Giant" and in the TV series "Police Woman."
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C.
Joseph Lochner
Joseph Lochner was a New York bakery owner whose challenge to state labor regulations led to the landmark 1905 U.S. Supreme Court case Lochner v. New York, which became emblematic of the Court’s early 20th-century “Lochner era” of substantive due process jurisprudence.
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D.
Otis Harlan
Otis Harlan was an American actor and comedian best known for his early film and stage work during the silent and early sound eras.
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E.
Frank Seiberling
Frank Seiberling was an American industrialist best known for founding the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, which became one of the world’s leading tire manufacturers.
- 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: Harry Frazee Target entity description: Harry Frazee was an American theatrical producer and owner of the Boston Red Sox, best known for selling Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.
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A.
Joseph H. Lewis
Joseph H. Lewis was an American film director best known for his stylish, low-budget B movies and film noirs, including the cult classic "Gun Crazy."
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B.
Earl Holliman
Earl Holliman is an American actor known for his prolific film and television career from the 1950s onward, including notable roles in movies like "The Rainmaker" and "Giant" and in the TV series "Police Woman."
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C.
Joseph Lochner
Joseph Lochner was a New York bakery owner whose challenge to state labor regulations led to the landmark 1905 U.S. Supreme Court case Lochner v. New York, which became emblematic of the Court’s early 20th-century “Lochner era” of substantive due process jurisprudence.
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D.
Otis Harlan
Otis Harlan was an American actor and comedian best known for his early film and stage work during the silent and early sound eras.
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E.
Frank Seiberling
Frank Seiberling was an American industrialist best known for founding the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, which became one of the world’s leading tire manufacturers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| familyName | Frazee ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
professional baseball
ⓘ
theatre production ⓘ |
| givenName | Harry ⓘ |
| hasRole |
producer
ⓘ
team owner ⓘ |
| industry |
entertainment industry
ⓘ
sports industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
controversial sale of Babe Ruth
ⓘ
influence on Boston Red Sox history ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| leagueAssociatedWith | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| name | Harry Frazee ⓘ |
| notableEvent | transfer of Babe Ruth from Boston Red Sox to New York Yankees ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ownership of the Boston Red Sox
ⓘ
selling Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball executive
ⓘ
sports team owner ⓘ theatrical producer ⓘ |
| owned | Boston Red Sox ⓘ |
| positionHeld | owner of the Boston Red Sox ⓘ |
| residence |
Boston
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sold | Babe Ruth ⓘ |
| soldTo | New York Yankees ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| teamAssociatedWith | Boston Red Sox ⓘ |
| transactionType | player sale ⓘ |
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: Harry Frazee Description of subject: Harry Frazee was an American theatrical producer and owner of the Boston Red Sox, best known for selling Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Harry Frazee