Larry Sherry
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Larry Sherry was an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known for his standout postseason performance with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Larry Sherry canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4264718 — 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: Larry Sherry Context triple: [1959 World Series, mostValuablePlayer, Larry Sherry]
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A.
Dennis Shaw
Dennis Shaw is a former American football quarterback who starred at San Diego State before playing in the NFL, most notably for the Buffalo Bills.
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B.
Tony Kiser
Tony Kiser is an American theater producer and philanthropist known for his significant support of the performing arts, including having an Off-Broadway theater named in his honor.
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C.
Bruce Sherman
Bruce Sherman is an American businessman and investor best known as the principal owner and chairman of Major League Baseball’s Miami Marlins.
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D.
John Lesher
John Lesher is an American film producer best known for his work on acclaimed, auteur-driven movies such as the Academy Award–winning "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)."
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E.
Terry Linden
Terry Linden is a central character in the 2004 drama film "We Don't Live Here Anymore," whose strained marriage and emotional conflicts drive much of the story’s exploration of infidelity and dissatisfaction.
- 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: Larry Sherry Target entity description: Larry Sherry was an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known for his standout postseason performance with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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A.
Dennis Shaw
Dennis Shaw is a former American football quarterback who starred at San Diego State before playing in the NFL, most notably for the Buffalo Bills.
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B.
Tony Kiser
Tony Kiser is an American theater producer and philanthropist known for his significant support of the performing arts, including having an Off-Broadway theater named in his honor.
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C.
Bruce Sherman
Bruce Sherman is an American businessman and investor best known as the principal owner and chairman of Major League Baseball’s Miami Marlins.
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D.
John Lesher
John Lesher is an American film producer best known for his work on acclaimed, auteur-driven movies such as the Academy Award–winning "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)."
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E.
Terry Linden
Terry Linden is a central character in the 2004 drama film "We Don't Live Here Anymore," whose strained marriage and emotional conflicts drive much of the story’s exploration of infidelity and dissatisfaction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball pitcher
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baseball player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
1960s
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late 1950s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | World Series Most Valuable Player Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bats | right ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1935-07-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2006-12-17 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Sherry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Brooklyn Dodgers
NERFINISHED
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Detroit Tigers NERFINISHED ⓘ Houston Astros NERFINISHED ⓘ Houston Colt .45s NERFINISHED ⓘ Los Angeles Dodgers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
Named 1959 World Series MVP
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Recorded two saves in the 1959 World Series ⓘ Winning pitcher in two games of the 1959 World Series ⓘ |
| notableWork | 1959 World Series performance ⓘ |
| occupation | baseball player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Mission Viejo, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Detroit Tigers
NERFINISHED
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Houston Colt .45s NERFINISHED ⓘ Los Angeles Dodgers ⓘ |
| playedIn | 1959 World Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
pitcher
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relief pitcher ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Norm Sherry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| teamParticipatedIn |
Detroit Tigers
NERFINISHED
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Houston Colt .45s NERFINISHED ⓘ Los Angeles Dodgers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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: Larry Sherry Description of subject: Larry Sherry was an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known for his standout postseason performance with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.