Newark Eagles
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The Newark Eagles were a prominent Negro League baseball team based in Newark, New Jersey, known for fielding several Hall of Fame players and winning the 1946 Negro World Series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Newark Eagles canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4779201 — 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: Newark Eagles Context triple: [Hinchliffe Stadium, hostedTeam, Newark Eagles]
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St. Louis Eagles
The St. Louis Eagles were a short-lived National Hockey League team that played only the 1934–35 season after relocating from Ottawa before folding due to financial difficulties.
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B.
Cleveland Rockers
The Cleveland Rockers were a former Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in Cleveland, Ohio, that played from the league's inaugural 1997 season until folding in 2003.
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C.
Baltimore Clippers
The Baltimore Clippers were a professional minor league ice hockey team that played in the American Hockey League and later the Southern Hockey League during the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
St. Louis Bombers
The St. Louis Bombers were a professional basketball team based in St. Louis, Missouri, that played in the late 1940s and early 1950s and were part of the early history of what became the NBA.
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E.
Philadelphia Wings
The Philadelphia Wings are a professional box lacrosse team based in Philadelphia that competes in the National Lacrosse League.
- 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: Newark Eagles Target entity description: The Newark Eagles were a prominent Negro League baseball team based in Newark, New Jersey, known for fielding several Hall of Fame players and winning the 1946 Negro World Series.
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A.
St. Louis Eagles
The St. Louis Eagles were a short-lived National Hockey League team that played only the 1934–35 season after relocating from Ottawa before folding due to financial difficulties.
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B.
Cleveland Rockers
The Cleveland Rockers were a former Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in Cleveland, Ohio, that played from the league's inaugural 1997 season until folding in 2003.
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C.
Baltimore Clippers
The Baltimore Clippers were a professional minor league ice hockey team that played in the American Hockey League and later the Southern Hockey League during the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
St. Louis Bombers
The St. Louis Bombers were a professional basketball team based in St. Louis, Missouri, that played in the late 1940s and early 1950s and were part of the early history of what became the NBA.
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E.
Philadelphia Wings
The Philadelphia Wings are a professional box lacrosse team based in Philadelphia that competes in the National Lacrosse League.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Negro league baseball team ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1936–1948 ⓘ |
| championshipTitle | Negro World Series champion 1946 ⓘ |
| city | Newark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorBarrierContext | played during racial segregation in American professional baseball ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | top-tier Negro league club ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dissolved | 1948 ⓘ |
| era | pre-integration era of Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| founded | 1936 ⓘ |
| gender | men’s team ⓘ |
| hallOfFameAlumnus |
Biz Mackey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Effa Manley NERFINISHED ⓘ Larry Doby NERFINISHED ⓘ Leon Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Monte Irvin NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Dandridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Willie Wells NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | produced several future National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees ⓘ |
| homeBallpark | Ruppert Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| integrationContext | Larry Doby went from Newark Eagles to become first Black player in American League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league | Negro National League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Newark, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manager |
Biz Mackey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Max Manning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Eagles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
progressive ownership under Effa Manley
ⓘ
strong farm system and player development ⓘ |
| notablePlayer |
Biz Mackey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clarence “Spoony” Palm NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ Larry Doby NERFINISHED ⓘ Leon Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Max Manning NERFINISHED ⓘ Monte Irvin NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Dandridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Willie Wells NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner |
Abe Manley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Effa Manley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Negro World Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Brooklyn Eagles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Newark Dodgers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| professionalStatus | professional baseball team ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| state |
New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
|
| won | 1946 Negro World Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Newark Eagles Description of subject: The Newark Eagles were a prominent Negro League baseball team based in Newark, New Jersey, known for fielding several Hall of Fame players and winning the 1946 Negro World Series.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hinchliffe Stadium