José
E38498
José is the given first name of Major League Baseball manager and former player Alex Cora.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| José canonical | 23 |
| José is his first given name | 1 |
| José is the Spanish form of Joseph | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T260612 — 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: José Context triple: [Alex Cora, givenName, José]
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A.
Eduardo
Eduardo is a masculine given name commonly used in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries, equivalent to the English name Edward.
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B.
Andrés
Andrés is a Spanish given name commonly used as the equivalent of Andrew.
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C.
Jorge
Jorge is the birth name of Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and the first pope from the Americas.
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D.
Pedro
Pedro is the Spanish and Portuguese given name equivalent to the English name Peter and the French name Pierre.
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E.
Guillermo
Guillermo is the Spanish form of the given name William, commonly used in Spanish-speaking countries.
- 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: José Target entity description: José is the given first name of Major League Baseball manager and former player Alex Cora.
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A.
Eduardo
Eduardo is a masculine given name commonly used in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries, equivalent to the English name Edward.
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B.
Andrés
Andrés is a Spanish given name commonly used as the equivalent of Andrew.
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C.
Jorge
Jorge is the birth name of Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and the first pope from the Americas.
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D.
Pedro
Pedro is the Spanish and Portuguese given name equivalent to the English name Peter and the French name Pierre.
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E.
Guillermo
Guillermo is the Spanish form of the given name William, commonly used in Spanish-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| bats | switch ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Puerto Rico ⓘ |
| familyName | Cora ⓘ |
| givenName | José self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| givenNameUsage |
José
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
José is his first given name
|
| leaguePlayedIn | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| managedTeam | Boston Red Sox ⓘ |
| middleName | Alexander ⓘ |
| notableAs | manager of the Boston Red Sox ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball manager
ⓘ
baseball player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Caguas, Puerto Rico ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Boston Red Sox
ⓘ
Cleveland Indians ⓘ Los Angeles Dodgers ⓘ New York Mets ⓘ Texas Rangers ⓘ Washington Nationals ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | infielder ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| 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: José Description of subject: José is the given first name of Major League Baseball manager and former player Alex Cora.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
José Alexander Cora
this entity surface form:
José is his first given name
this entity surface form:
José is the Spanish form of Joseph