Bill Greason
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Bill Greason is a former Negro League pitcher who starred for the Birmingham Black Barons before becoming one of the first Black players in the St. Louis Cardinals organization and later a longtime pastor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bill Greason canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5759842 — 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: Bill Greason Context triple: [Birmingham Black Barons, notablePlayer, Bill Greason]
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A.
Russ Hodges
Russ Hodges was a prominent American sportscaster best known as the longtime radio and television voice of the New York and San Francisco Giants and for his iconic call of Bobby Thomson’s 1951 “Shot Heard ’Round the World.”
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B.
Bill Reeves
Bill Reeves is a pioneering computer graphics researcher and animator best known for his influential work at Pixar, where he helped develop groundbreaking rendering and animation techniques.
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C.
Ted Dealey
Ted Dealey was an American newspaper publisher and influential editor of The Dallas Morning News, known for his conservative political views and impact on Texas journalism.
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D.
Bill Bryant
Bill Bryant is an American businessman and Republican politician from Washington state who has served as a Port of Seattle commissioner and ran for governor in 2016.
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E.
Bill Truitt
Bill Truitt is a central character in the dark comedy film "The Opposite of Sex," serving as a mild-mannered teacher whose life is upended by the manipulative actions of his teenage half-sister.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Greason Target entity description: Bill Greason is a former Negro League pitcher who starred for the Birmingham Black Barons before becoming one of the first Black players in the St. Louis Cardinals organization and later a longtime pastor.
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A.
Russ Hodges
Russ Hodges was a prominent American sportscaster best known as the longtime radio and television voice of the New York and San Francisco Giants and for his iconic call of Bobby Thomson’s 1951 “Shot Heard ’Round the World.”
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B.
Bill Reeves
Bill Reeves is a pioneering computer graphics researcher and animator best known for his influential work at Pixar, where he helped develop groundbreaking rendering and animation techniques.
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C.
Ted Dealey
Ted Dealey was an American newspaper publisher and influential editor of The Dallas Morning News, known for his conservative political views and impact on Texas journalism.
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D.
Bill Bryant
Bill Bryant is an American businessman and Republican politician from Washington state who has served as a Port of Seattle commissioner and ran for governor in 2016.
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E.
Bill Truitt
Bill Truitt is a central character in the dark comedy film "The Opposite of Sex," serving as a mild-mannered teacher whose life is upended by the manipulative actions of his teenage half-sister.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian pastor
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Negro league baseball player ⓘ baseball player ⓘ human ⓘ pitcher ⓘ |
| bats | right ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | World War II ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1924-09-03 ⓘ |
| debutLeague | Negro leagues NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| debutTeam | Birmingham Black Barons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 20th-century baseball ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Greason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasNotableTeammate | Willie Mays NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRetired | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a Negro League star pitcher
ⓘ
breaking racial barriers in the St. Louis Cardinals organization ⓘ longtime pastoral service ⓘ |
| league |
Major League Baseball
ⓘ
Negro American League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Marine Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mlbDebutTeam | St. Louis Cardinals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mlbDebutYear | 1954 ⓘ |
| name | Bill Greason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | starred as a pitcher for the Birmingham Black Barons ⓘ |
| occupation |
pastor
ⓘ
professional baseball player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Atlanta, Georgia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Birmingham Black Barons
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. Louis Cardinals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedIn | Negro World Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedWith | Willie Mays on the Birmingham Black Barons ⓘ |
| position | pitcher ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Birmingham, Alabama, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedAs | pastor in Birmingham, Alabama ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| teamRole | starting pitcher ⓘ |
| throws | right ⓘ |
| wasOneOfFirstBlackPlayersFor | St. Louis Cardinals organization 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: Bill Greason Description of subject: Bill Greason is a former Negro League pitcher who starred for the Birmingham Black Barons before becoming one of the first Black players in the St. Louis Cardinals organization and later a longtime pastor.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.