The Rajah
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The Rajah was the nickname of Rogers Hornsby, a legendary Major League Baseball second baseman renowned for his extraordinary hitting ability and one of the highest career batting averages in history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Rajah canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6515375 — 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: The Rajah Context triple: [Rogers Hornsby, nickname, The Rajah]
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A.
The Rajah
The Rajah is the nickname of Roger Brown, a prominent American art historian and curator known for his influential work in the field of art history.
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B.
White Rajahs
The White Rajahs were a dynasty of British-born rulers from the Brooke family who governed the Kingdom of Sarawak on Borneo from the mid-19th to mid-20th century as personal monarchs.
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C.
The Sultan
The Sultan is the benevolent yet somewhat naive ruler of Agrabah and Princess Jasmine’s father in Disney’s Aladdin story.
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D.
King of the Indies
King of the Indies was a royal title used by Spanish monarchs to signify their sovereignty over Spain’s overseas territories in the Americas and other parts of the New World.
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E.
Prince of Madra
Prince of Madra is a royal title in the Indian epic Mahabharata held by Nakula, one of the Pandava brothers renowned for his beauty, skill with horses, and valor in battle.
- 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: The Rajah Target entity description: The Rajah was the nickname of Rogers Hornsby, a legendary Major League Baseball second baseman renowned for his extraordinary hitting ability and one of the highest career batting averages in history.
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A.
The Rajah
The Rajah is the nickname of Roger Brown, a prominent American art historian and curator known for his influential work in the field of art history.
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B.
White Rajahs
The White Rajahs were a dynasty of British-born rulers from the Brooke family who governed the Kingdom of Sarawak on Borneo from the mid-19th to mid-20th century as personal monarchs.
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C.
The Sultan
The Sultan is the benevolent yet somewhat naive ruler of Agrabah and Princess Jasmine’s father in Disney’s Aladdin story.
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D.
King of the Indies
King of the Indies was a royal title used by Spanish monarchs to signify their sovereignty over Spain’s overseas territories in the Americas and other parts of the New World.
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E.
Prince of Madra
Prince of Madra is a royal title in the Indian epic Mahabharata held by Nakula, one of the Pandava brothers renowned for his beauty, skill with horses, and valor in battle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
nickname ⓘ |
| bats | right ⓘ |
| battedOver400Season |
1922
ⓘ
1924 ⓘ 1925 ⓘ |
| battedOver400Seasons | 3 ⓘ |
| battingAverageCareer | .358 ⓘ |
| battingAverageSeasonRecord | .424 ⓘ |
| battingAverageSeasonRecordYear | 1924 ⓘ |
| battingTitlesWon | 7 ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1896-04-27 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Winters, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1963-01-05 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Chicago, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eraPlayedIn |
Dead-ball era
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Live-ball era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFame | National Baseball Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInductionYear | 1942 ⓘ |
| hasNickname | The Rajah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hitsCareer | 2930 ⓘ |
| homeRunsCareer | 301 ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 4 ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Boston Braves
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chicago Cubs NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Giants NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Louis Browns NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Louis Cardinals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MVPawardsWon | 2 ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | extraordinary hitting ability ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball player
ⓘ
second baseman ⓘ |
| onBasePlusSluggingPlusCareer | 175 ⓘ |
| position | second baseman ⓘ |
| RBIcareer | 1584 ⓘ |
| refersTo | Rogers Hornsby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| teamCaptainOf | St. Louis Cardinals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamManaged |
Boston Braves
NERFINISHED
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Chicago Cubs NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Louis Browns NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Louis Cardinals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| throws | right ⓘ |
| tripleCrownSeasons | 2 ⓘ |
| worldSeriesChampion | 1926 ⓘ |
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: The Rajah Description of subject: The Rajah was the nickname of Rogers Hornsby, a legendary Major League Baseball second baseman renowned for his extraordinary hitting ability and one of the highest career batting averages in history.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.