1938 World Series
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The 1938 World Series was the Major League Baseball championship in which the New York Yankees defeated the Chicago Cubs to win their third consecutive title.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 1938 World Series canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13269621 — 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: 1938 World Series Context triple: [Frankie Crosetti, playedInWorldSeries, 1938 World Series]
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A.
1937 World Series
The 1937 World Series was the Major League Baseball championship in which the New York Yankees defeated the New York Giants to win their second consecutive title.
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B.
1936 World Series
The 1936 World Series was a Major League Baseball championship series in which the New York Yankees defeated the New York Giants to claim the title.
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C.
1931 World Series
The 1931 World Series was Major League Baseball's championship series in which the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Philadelphia Athletics in seven games.
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D.
1935 World Series
The 1935 World Series was Major League Baseball's championship series in which the Detroit Tigers defeated the Chicago Cubs to win their first World Series title.
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E.
1940 World Series
The 1940 World Series was Major League Baseball's championship series between the Cincinnati Reds and the Detroit Tigers, with the Reds winning the title in a seven-game matchup.
- 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: 1938 World Series Target entity description: The 1938 World Series was the Major League Baseball championship in which the New York Yankees defeated the Chicago Cubs to win their third consecutive title.
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A.
1937 World Series
The 1937 World Series was the Major League Baseball championship in which the New York Yankees defeated the New York Giants to win their second consecutive title.
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B.
1936 World Series
The 1936 World Series was a Major League Baseball championship series in which the New York Yankees defeated the New York Giants to claim the title.
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C.
1931 World Series
The 1931 World Series was Major League Baseball's championship series in which the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Philadelphia Athletics in seven games.
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D.
1935 World Series
The 1935 World Series was Major League Baseball's championship series in which the Detroit Tigers defeated the Chicago Cubs to win their first World Series title.
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E.
1940 World Series
The 1940 World Series was Major League Baseball's championship series between the Cincinnati Reds and the Detroit Tigers, with the Reds winning the title in a seven-game matchup.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball championship series
ⓘ
World Series ⓘ |
| americanLeagueChampion | New York Yankees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| champion | New York Yankees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| championTitleStreak | third consecutive World Series title for New York Yankees ⓘ |
| cityOfChampionTeam | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cityOfRunnerUpTeam | Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| cubsWorldSeriesDroughtFollowing | Cubs did not win another World Series until 2016 ⓘ |
| editionNumber | 35 ⓘ |
| endDate | 1938-10-09 ⓘ |
| finalSeriesResult | New York Yankees defeated Chicago Cubs 4–0 ⓘ |
| format | best-of-seven ⓘ |
| game1Winner | New York Yankees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| game2Winner | New York Yankees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| game3Winner | New York Yankees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| game4Winner | New York Yankees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| locationOfWrigleyField | Chicago, Illinois GENERATED ⓘ |
| locationOfYankeeStadium | Bronx, New York City GENERATED ⓘ |
| losingTeamLeaguePennant | National League pennant ⓘ |
| managerOfChampion | Joe McCarthy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managerOfRunnerUp | Gabby Hartnett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mostValuablePlayer | Red Ruffing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationalLeagueChampion | Chicago Cubs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nextEdition | 1939 World Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableHitterForYankees |
Bill Dickey
GENERATED
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Joe DiMaggio GENERATED ⓘ |
| notablePitcherForYankees |
Lefty Gomez
GENERATED
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Red Ruffing GENERATED ⓘ |
| notablePlayerForCubs |
Billy Herman
GENERATED
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Gabby Hartnett GENERATED ⓘ Stan Hack GENERATED ⓘ |
| numberOfGames | 4 ⓘ |
| previousEdition | 1937 World Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryMediumOfBroadcast | radio GENERATED ⓘ |
| runnerUp | Chicago Cubs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seasonOfLeague | 1938 Major League Baseball season ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| startDate | 1938-10-05 ⓘ |
| televisionCoverage | none ⓘ |
| umpireCrewChief | Bill McGowan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| venueForCubsHomeGames | Wrigley Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| venueForYankeesHomeGames | Yankee Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| winningTeamLeaguePennant | American League pennant ⓘ |
| yankeesConsecutiveTitlesCount | 3 ⓘ |
| yankeesTotalWorldSeriesTitlesAfterSeries | 7 ⓘ |
| year | 1938 ⓘ |
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: 1938 World Series Description of subject: The 1938 World Series was the Major League Baseball championship in which the New York Yankees defeated the Chicago Cubs to win their third consecutive title.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.