Gerald Dempsey Posey III
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All-Star
Gold Glove Award winner
National League Most Valuable Player
Rookie of the Year
Silver Slugger Award winner
World Series champion
baseball player
catcher
human
Gerald Dempsey Posey III, better known as Buster Posey, is a former Major League Baseball catcher and cornerstone of the San Francisco Giants’ 2010s championship teams.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gerald Dempsey Posey III canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6438731 — 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: Gerald Dempsey Posey III Context triple: [Buster Posey, fullName, Gerald Dempsey Posey III]
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A.
Jim Threapleton
Jim Threapleton is a British film director and former assistant director, known in the public eye largely for his past marriage to actress Kate Winslet.
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B.
Craig Leipold
Craig Leipold is an American businessman and sports executive best known as the owner of the NHL’s Minnesota Wild and former owner of the Nashville Predators.
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C.
Chris Dickerson
Chris Dickerson was an American professional bodybuilder best known for winning the 1982 Mr. Olympia title and for being one of the sport’s pioneering African-American and openly gay champions.
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D.
Matt Roberts
Matt Roberts was an American guitarist best known as a founding member of the rock band 3 Doors Down.
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E.
Robert Presnell Jr.
Robert Presnell Jr. was an American screenwriter and producer active in mid-20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on numerous films and television projects.
- 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: Gerald Dempsey Posey III Target entity description: Gerald Dempsey Posey III, better known as Buster Posey, is a former Major League Baseball catcher and cornerstone of the San Francisco Giants’ 2010s championship teams.
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A.
Jim Threapleton
Jim Threapleton is a British film director and former assistant director, known in the public eye largely for his past marriage to actress Kate Winslet.
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B.
Craig Leipold
Craig Leipold is an American businessman and sports executive best known as the owner of the NHL’s Minnesota Wild and former owner of the Nashville Predators.
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C.
Chris Dickerson
Chris Dickerson was an American professional bodybuilder best known for winning the 1982 Mr. Olympia title and for being one of the sport’s pioneering African-American and openly gay champions.
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D.
Matt Roberts
Matt Roberts was an American guitarist best known as a founding member of the rock band 3 Doors Down.
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E.
Robert Presnell Jr.
Robert Presnell Jr. was an American screenwriter and producer active in mid-20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on numerous films and television projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
All-Star
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Gold Glove Award winner ⓘ National League Most Valuable Player ⓘ Rookie of the Year ⓘ Silver Slugger Award winner ⓘ World Series champion ⓘ baseball player ⓘ catcher ⓘ human ⓘ |
| alsoPlayedPosition | first baseman ⓘ |
| bats | right ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | Florida State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collegeTeam | Florida State Seminoles baseball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1987-03-27 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | San Francisco Giants NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| draftOverallPick | 5 ⓘ |
| draftRound | first round ⓘ |
| draftYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| finalMLBGameLeague | Major League Baseball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalMLBGameSeason | 2021 ⓘ |
| finalMLBGameTeam | San Francisco Giants NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| GoldGloveSeason | 2016 ⓘ |
| hasName | Gerald Dempsey Posey III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNickname | Buster Posey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league | National League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MLBDebutDate | 2009-09-11 ⓘ |
| MLBDebutLeague | Major League Baseball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MLBDebutSeason | 2009 ⓘ |
| MLBDebutTeam | San Francisco Giants NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MVPAwardSeason | 2012 ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a cornerstone of the San Francisco Giants’ 2010s championship teams ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Leesburg, Georgia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor | San Francisco Giants NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedForOrganization | San Francisco Giants organization NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| position | catcher ⓘ |
| primaryTeam | San Francisco Giants NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retiredFromMLB | 2021 ⓘ |
| rookieOfTheYearSeason | 2010 ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| throws | right ⓘ |
| wonAward |
Gold Glove Award
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
National League Most Valuable Player Award NERFINISHED ⓘ National League Rookie of the Year Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver Slugger Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| WorldSeriesChampionSeason |
2010
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2012 ⓘ 2014 ⓘ |
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: Gerald Dempsey Posey III Description of subject: Gerald Dempsey Posey III, better known as Buster Posey, is a former Major League Baseball catcher and cornerstone of the San Francisco Giants’ 2010s championship teams.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.