Wade Davis
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Wade Davis is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as a dominant late-inning arm for the Kansas City Royals during their mid-2010s postseason runs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wade Davis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4778372 — 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: Wade Davis Context triple: [2014 American League Championship Series, game1WinningPitcher, Wade Davis]
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A.
Wade Davis
Wade Davis is a Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, and author known for his explorations of indigenous cultures and psychoactive plants.
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B.
Timothy J. Mara
Timothy J. Mara is a member of the Mara family, the longtime owners of the NFL’s New York Giants franchise.
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C.
Michael Rivers
Michael Rivers is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Rivers rather than with widely recognized public achievements.
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D.
Daniel J. Chure
Daniel J. Chure is an American paleontologist known for his research on large Jurassic theropod dinosaurs and his long-time work at Dinosaur National Monument.
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E.
Karl Kerfoot
Karl Kerfoot is a musician best known as a former member of the American indie folk band Lord Huron.
- 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: Wade Davis Target entity description: Wade Davis is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as a dominant late-inning arm for the Kansas City Royals during their mid-2010s postseason runs.
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A.
Wade Davis
Wade Davis is a Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, and author known for his explorations of indigenous cultures and psychoactive plants.
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B.
Timothy J. Mara
Timothy J. Mara is a member of the Mara family, the longtime owners of the NFL’s New York Giants franchise.
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C.
Michael Rivers
Michael Rivers is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Rivers rather than with widely recognized public achievements.
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D.
Daniel J. Chure
Daniel J. Chure is an American paleontologist known for his research on large Jurassic theropod dinosaurs and his long-time work at Dinosaur National Monument.
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E.
Karl Kerfoot
Karl Kerfoot is a musician best known as a former member of the American indie folk band Lord Huron.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball player
ⓘ
human ⓘ pitcher ⓘ relief pitcher ⓘ |
| allStarSelection |
2015 MLB All-Star Game
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
2016 MLB All-Star Game NERFINISHED ⓘ 2017 MLB All-Star Game NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | World Series champion ⓘ |
| bats | right ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1985-09-07 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African Americans
|
| finalMLBGame | 2021-09-30 ⓘ |
| finalMLBTeam | Kansas City Royals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| handedness | right-handed pitcher ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Chicago Cubs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Colorado Rockies NERFINISHED ⓘ Kansas City Royals NERFINISHED ⓘ Tampa Bay Rays NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MLBDebut | 2009-09-06 ⓘ |
| MLBDebutTeam | Tampa Bay Rays NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dominant late-inning relief pitching for the Kansas City Royals
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key role in Kansas City Royals postseason runs in the mid-2010s ⓘ |
| occupation | baseball player ⓘ |
| partOf | 2015 Kansas City Royals World Series championship team ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lake Wales, Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Chicago Cubs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Colorado Rockies NERFINISHED ⓘ Kansas City Royals NERFINISHED ⓘ Tampa Bay Rays NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedIn |
2014 American League Championship Series
NERFINISHED
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2014 American League Wild Card Game NERFINISHED ⓘ 2014 World Series NERFINISHED ⓘ 2015 American League Championship Series NERFINISHED ⓘ 2015 American League Division Series NERFINISHED ⓘ 2015 World Series NERFINISHED ⓘ 2016 National League Division Series NERFINISHED ⓘ 2017 National League Wild Card Game ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | pitcher ⓘ |
| retired | true ⓘ |
| role |
closer
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relief pitcher ⓘ starting pitcher ⓘ |
| 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: Wade Davis Description of subject: Wade Davis is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as a dominant late-inning arm for the Kansas City Royals during their mid-2010s postseason runs.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.