Greaseball
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Greaseball is the swaggering, villainous diesel engine and champion racer in the musical *Starlight Express*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Greaseball canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16877020 — 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: Greaseball Context triple: [Starlight Express, centralCharacter, Greaseball]
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A.
Whiteyball
Whiteyball was the speed-, defense-, and pitching-focused style of play popularized by manager Whitey Herzog’s St. Louis Cardinals in the 1980s, emphasizing small ball over power hitting.
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B.
Blackball
Blackball is a track from DJ Khaled’s 2013 hip-hop album "Suffering from Success."
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C.
The Ball
"The Ball" is a short story by renowned Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, reflecting his characteristic blend of psychological insight and modernist narrative style.
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D.
The Ball
The Ball is the central object used in football (soccer), whose movement and status determine when play is active or stopped according to the Laws of the Game.
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E.
The Ball
The Ball is the popular nickname for Reunion Tower, a distinctive geodesic observation tower and Dallas landmark known for its glowing spherical top.
- 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: Greaseball Target entity description: Greaseball is the swaggering, villainous diesel engine and champion racer in the musical *Starlight Express*.
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A.
Whiteyball
Whiteyball was the speed-, defense-, and pitching-focused style of play popularized by manager Whitey Herzog’s St. Louis Cardinals in the 1980s, emphasizing small ball over power hitting.
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B.
Blackball
Blackball is a track from DJ Khaled’s 2013 hip-hop album "Suffering from Success."
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C.
The Ball
"The Ball" is a short story by renowned Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, reflecting his characteristic blend of psychological insight and modernist narrative style.
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D.
The Ball
The Ball is the popular nickname for Reunion Tower, a distinctive geodesic observation tower and Dallas landmark known for its glowing spherical top.
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E.
The Ball
The Ball is the central object used in football (soccer), whose movement and status determine when play is active or stopped according to the Laws of the Game.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.