Jackie Robinson Jr.
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Jackie Robinson Jr. was the eldest son of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, known for his military service in the Vietnam War and his later work in drug rehabilitation and social causes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jackie Robinson Jr. canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1369961 — 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: Jackie Robinson Jr. Context triple: [Jackie Robinson, child, Jackie Robinson Jr.]
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A.
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was a pioneering American baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947 and became a symbol of the civil rights movement.
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B.
Mack Robinson
Mack Robinson was an American sprinter best known for winning the silver medal in the 200-meter race at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, finishing behind Jesse Owens.
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C.
Joseph Jackson Gibbs
Joseph Jackson Gibbs is a renowned American football coach and former NASCAR team owner best known for leading the Washington Redskins to three Super Bowl titles.
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D.
Monte Irvin
Monte Irvin was a Hall of Fame American baseball player renowned as a star of the Negro Leagues who later became one of Major League Baseball’s early Black pioneers.
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E.
Zutty Singleton
Zutty Singleton was an influential American jazz drummer and early pioneer of swing-era percussion, best known for his work with Louis Armstrong and other leading New Orleans and Chicago jazz musicians.
- 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: Jackie Robinson Jr. Target entity description: Jackie Robinson Jr. was the eldest son of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, known for his military service in the Vietnam War and his later work in drug rehabilitation and social causes.
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A.
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was a pioneering American baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947 and became a symbol of the civil rights movement.
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B.
Mack Robinson
Mack Robinson was an American sprinter best known for winning the silver medal in the 200-meter race at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, finishing behind Jesse Owens.
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C.
Joseph Jackson Gibbs
Joseph Jackson Gibbs is a renowned American football coach and former NASCAR team owner best known for leading the Washington Redskins to three Super Bowl titles.
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D.
Monte Irvin
Monte Irvin was a Hall of Fame American baseball player renowned as a star of the Negro Leagues who later became one of Major League Baseball’s early Black pioneers.
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E.
Zutty Singleton
Zutty Singleton was an influential American jazz drummer and early pioneer of swing-era percussion, best known for his work with Louis Armstrong and other leading New Orleans and Chicago jazz musicians.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | car accident ⓘ |
| conflict | Vietnam War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Robinson ⓘ |
| father | Jackie Robinson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
drug rehabilitation
ⓘ
social activism ⓘ |
| givenName | Jackie ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
public awareness of drug rehabilitation needs
ⓘ
public awareness of veterans’ issues ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
David Robinson
ⓘ
surface form:
David Robinson (son of Jackie Robinson)
Sharon Robinson ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| mother | Rachel Robinson ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Robinson family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the eldest son of Jackie Robinson
ⓘ
involvement in social causes ⓘ military service in the Vietnam War ⓘ work in drug rehabilitation ⓘ |
| occupation |
drug rehabilitation worker
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| positionInFamily | eldest son of Jackie Robinson ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Jackie Robinson Jr. Description of subject: Jackie Robinson Jr. was the eldest son of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, known for his military service in the Vietnam War and his later work in drug rehabilitation and social causes.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.