1987 National League Championship Series
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The 1987 National League Championship Series was a best-of-seven Major League Baseball playoff between the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants to determine the league’s representative in the World Series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1987 National League Championship Series canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6553613 — 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: 1987 National League Championship Series Context triple: [Doug Harvey, officiatedLeagueChampionshipSeries, 1987 National League Championship Series]
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A.
1980 National League Championship Series
The 1980 National League Championship Series was Major League Baseball’s best-of-five playoff between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Houston Astros to determine the league’s representative in the World Series.
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B.
1983 National League Championship Series
The 1983 National League Championship Series was Major League Baseball’s best-of-five playoff between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Dodgers to determine the league’s representative in the World Series.
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C.
1982 National League Championship Series
The 1982 National League Championship Series was Major League Baseball’s best-of-five playoff between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Atlanta Braves to determine the National League representative in the 1982 World Series.
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D.
1984 National League Championship Series
The 1984 National League Championship Series was Major League Baseball’s best-of-five playoff between the Chicago Cubs and San Diego Padres to determine the National League representative in the World Series.
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E.
1979 National League Championship Series
The 1979 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five playoff in which the Pittsburgh Pirates swept the Cincinnati Reds to advance to and eventually win the World Series.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: 1987 National League Championship Series Target entity description: The 1987 National League Championship Series was a best-of-seven Major League Baseball playoff between the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants to determine the league’s representative in the World Series.
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A.
1980 National League Championship Series
The 1980 National League Championship Series was Major League Baseball’s best-of-five playoff between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Houston Astros to determine the league’s representative in the World Series.
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B.
1983 National League Championship Series
The 1983 National League Championship Series was Major League Baseball’s best-of-five playoff between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Dodgers to determine the league’s representative in the World Series.
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C.
1982 National League Championship Series
The 1982 National League Championship Series was Major League Baseball’s best-of-five playoff between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Atlanta Braves to determine the National League representative in the 1982 World Series.
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D.
1984 National League Championship Series
The 1984 National League Championship Series was Major League Baseball’s best-of-five playoff between the Chicago Cubs and San Diego Padres to determine the National League representative in the World Series.
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E.
1979 National League Championship Series
The 1979 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five playoff in which the Pittsburgh Pirates swept the Cincinnati Reds to advance to and eventually win the World Series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball postseason series
ⓘ
National League Championship Series ⓘ |
| bestOf | 7 games ⓘ |
| cardinalsHomeFieldAdvantage | yes ⓘ |
| cardinalsLeagueTitleCountAfterSeries | 3 ⓘ |
| champion | St. Louis Cardinals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| championAdvancedTo | 1987 World Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| championLeaguePennant | National League pennant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decisiveGameNumber | 7 ⓘ |
| decisiveGameWinner | St. Louis Cardinals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endDate | 1987-10-14 ⓘ |
| format | best-of-seven ⓘ |
| game1Location | St. Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| game2Location | St. Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| game3Location | San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| game4Location | San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| game5Location | San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| game6Location | St. Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| game7Location | St. Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gamesPlayed | 7 ⓘ |
| giantsFirstNLCSAppearanceSince | 1971 ⓘ |
| homeFieldTeam1 | St. Louis Cardinals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeFieldTeam2 | San Francisco Giants NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league | National League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| level | Major League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managerOfChampionTeam | Whitey Herzog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managerOfRunnerUpTeam | Roger Craig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mostValuablePlayer | Jeffrey Leonard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MVPTeam | San Francisco Giants NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nextEdition | 1988 National League Championship Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postseasonRound | league championship series ⓘ |
| previousEdition | 1986 National League Championship Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| radioNetworkUS | CBS Radio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runnerUp | San Francisco Giants NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| season | 1987 Major League Baseball season ⓘ |
| seriesResult | St. Louis Cardinals won 4–3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| startDate | 1987-10-06 ⓘ |
| team1 | St. Louis Cardinals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| team1HomeBallpark | Busch Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| team2 | San Francisco Giants NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| team2HomeBallpark | Candlestick Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| televisionNetworkUS | NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| umpireCrewChief | Doug Harvey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| winnerAdvancesTo | 1987 World Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| year | 1987 ⓘ |
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: 1987 National League Championship Series Description of subject: The 1987 National League Championship Series was a best-of-seven Major League Baseball playoff between the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants to determine the league’s representative in the World Series.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.