Vida Blue
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Vida Blue was a dominant left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher, best known for his Cy Young and MVP-winning 1971 season and his role in the Oakland Athletics’ early-1970s championship teams.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vida Blue canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4908554 — 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: Vida Blue Context triple: [Burlington Bees, notableAlumni, Vida Blue]
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A.
Violeta
Violeta is a novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende that follows the tumultuous, century-long life of a woman born during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.
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B.
Angel Blue
Angel Blue is an acclaimed American operatic soprano known for her performances at leading international opera houses and her interpretations of major lyric and spinto roles.
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C.
Ms. Blu Rain
Ms. Blu Rain is the compassionate and determined alternative-school teacher who mentors and advocates for the abused teenage protagonist in Sapphire’s novel (and its film adaptation) "Precious."
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D.
Violet
Violet is a small, typically purple-flowered plant commonly found in temperate regions and widely recognized as a symbol of modesty and springtime.
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E.
Violet
Violet is a character portrayed by Australian actress Robin McLeavy, likely known from her work in film or television.
- 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: Vida Blue Target entity description: Vida Blue was a dominant left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher, best known for his Cy Young and MVP-winning 1971 season and his role in the Oakland Athletics’ early-1970s championship teams.
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A.
Violeta
Violeta is a novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende that follows the tumultuous, century-long life of a woman born during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.
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B.
Angel Blue
Angel Blue is an acclaimed American operatic soprano known for her performances at leading international opera houses and her interpretations of major lyric and spinto roles.
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C.
Ms. Blu Rain
Ms. Blu Rain is the compassionate and determined alternative-school teacher who mentors and advocates for the abused teenage protagonist in Sapphire’s novel (and its film adaptation) "Precious."
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D.
Violet
Violet is a small, typically purple-flowered plant commonly found in temperate regions and widely recognized as a symbol of modesty and springtime.
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E.
Violet
Violet is a character portrayed by Australian actress Robin McLeavy, likely known from her work in film or television.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball pitcher
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
American League Cy Young Award
NERFINISHED
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American League Most Valuable Player Award NERFINISHED ⓘ MLB All-Star NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bats | switch ⓘ |
| completeGamesIn1971 | 24 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-07-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2023-05-06 ⓘ |
| earnedRunAverageIn1971 | 1.82 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalMLBGameDate | 1986-09-28 ⓘ |
| finalMLBTeam | San Francisco Giants NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Vida Rochelle Blue Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gamesStartedIn1971 | 39 ⓘ |
| givenName | Vida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| handedness | left-handed pitcher ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber |
14
ⓘ
35 ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Kansas City Royals
NERFINISHED
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Oakland Athletics NERFINISHED ⓘ San Francisco Giants NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MLBDebutDate | 1969-07-20 ⓘ |
| MLBDebutTeam | Oakland Athletics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dominant fastball and curveball combination
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key role in Oakland Athletics early-1970s dynasty ⓘ |
| notableSeason | 1971 MLB season ⓘ |
| numberOfAllStarSelections | 6 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Mansfield, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | San Francisco, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedForOrganization |
Kansas City Royals organization
NERFINISHED
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Oakland Athletics organization NERFINISHED ⓘ San Francisco Giants organization NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | pitcher ⓘ |
| seasonOfAward |
1971 American League Cy Young Award
NERFINISHED
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1971 American League Most Valuable Player Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| shutoutsIn1971 | 8 ⓘ |
| strikeoutsIn1971 | 301 ⓘ |
| teamDuringChampionship | Oakland Athletics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| throws | left ⓘ |
| winsIn1971 | 24 ⓘ |
| WorldSeriesChampion |
1972 World Series
NERFINISHED
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1973 World Series NERFINISHED ⓘ 1974 World Series 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: Vida Blue Description of subject: Vida Blue was a dominant left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher, best known for his Cy Young and MVP-winning 1971 season and his role in the Oakland Athletics’ early-1970s championship teams.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.