Matt Holliday
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Matt Holliday is a former Major League Baseball outfielder best known as a star slugger for the St. Louis Cardinals, with whom he won a World Series championship and became a franchise icon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matt Holliday canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4496729 — 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: Matt Holliday Context triple: [St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame, hasInductee, Matt Holliday]
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A.
Troy Tulowitzki
Troy Tulowitzki is a former Major League Baseball shortstop best known for his power hitting, elite defense, and multiple All-Star seasons, primarily with the Colorado Rockies.
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B.
Eric Hosmer
Eric Hosmer is an American former Major League Baseball first baseman best known for his key role with the Kansas City Royals, including their 2015 World Series championship.
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C.
Lance Berkman
Lance Berkman is a former Major League Baseball slugger and six-time All-Star outfielder/first baseman best known for his power-hitting years with the Houston Astros as part of the famed "Killer B's" lineup.
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D.
Todd Helton
Todd Helton is a former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his prolific hitting and long, distinguished career with the Colorado Rockies.
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E.
Pat Burrell
Pat Burrell is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and World Series champion best known for his power hitting with the Philadelphia Phillies and San Francisco Giants.
- 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: Matt Holliday Target entity description: Matt Holliday is a former Major League Baseball outfielder best known as a star slugger for the St. Louis Cardinals, with whom he won a World Series championship and became a franchise icon.
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A.
Troy Tulowitzki
Troy Tulowitzki is a former Major League Baseball shortstop best known for his power hitting, elite defense, and multiple All-Star seasons, primarily with the Colorado Rockies.
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B.
Eric Hosmer
Eric Hosmer is an American former Major League Baseball first baseman best known for his key role with the Kansas City Royals, including their 2015 World Series championship.
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C.
Lance Berkman
Lance Berkman is a former Major League Baseball slugger and six-time All-Star outfielder/first baseman best known for his power-hitting years with the Houston Astros as part of the famed "Killer B's" lineup.
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D.
Todd Helton
Todd Helton is a former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his prolific hitting and long, distinguished career with the Colorado Rockies.
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E.
Pat Burrell
Pat Burrell is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and World Series champion best known for his power hitting with the Philadelphia Phillies and San Francisco Giants.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball player
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human ⓘ professional baseball player ⓘ professional baseball player ⓘ |
| allStarSelection | 7 ⓘ |
| award | 2007 National League Championship Series MVP NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bats | right ⓘ |
| battingAverageCareer | .299 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1980-01-15 ⓘ |
| family | son of Tom Holliday ⓘ |
| familyName | Holliday NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Matthew Thomas Holliday NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Matthew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highSchool | Stillwater High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeRunsCareer | 300+ ⓘ |
| jerseyNumberWithCardinals | 7 ⓘ |
| league |
American League
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National League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MLBDebutDate | 2004-04-16 ⓘ |
| MLBDebutLeague | MLB NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MLBDebutTeam | Colorado Rockies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
power hitting
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run production ⓘ |
| notableSeason | 2007 with Colorado Rockies ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball outfielder
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hitting coach ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Colorado Rockies
NERFINISHED
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Kansas City Royals NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Yankees ⓘ Oakland Athletics NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Louis Cardinals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
left fielder
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outfielder ⓘ |
| relative | Jackson Holliday NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| retiredFromPlaying | true ⓘ |
| roleWithCardinals | middle-of-the-order slugger ⓘ |
| runsBattedInCareer | 1200+ ⓘ |
| SilverSluggerAwards | 4 ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| statusWithCardinals | franchise icon ⓘ |
| team |
Colorado Rockies
NERFINISHED
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Kansas City Royals NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Yankees NERFINISHED ⓘ Oakland Athletics NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Louis Cardinals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| throws | right ⓘ |
| WorldSeriesChampion | 2011 ⓘ |
| WorldSeriesTeam | St. Louis Cardinals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Matt Holliday Description of subject: Matt Holliday is a former Major League Baseball outfielder best known as a star slugger for the St. Louis Cardinals, with whom he won a World Series championship and became a franchise icon.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.