Tommy Davis
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Tommy Davis was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and third baseman best known for his standout hitting with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the early 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tommy Davis canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7082208 — 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: Tommy Davis Context triple: [1963 World Series, notablePlayer, Tommy Davis]
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A.
Bill Dobson
Bill Dobson is a troubled, charismatic English professor whose personal and professional unraveling drives much of the dark comedy and drama in the Netflix series "The Chair."
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B.
Tommy Maddox
Tommy Maddox is a former American football quarterback best known for his comeback from the Arena Football League and XFL to become an NFL starter and 2002 Comeback Player of the Year with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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C.
Milton Moore
Milton Moore was a cinematographer active during the silent film era, known for his work on early American cinema.
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D.
Ed Tom Bell
Ed Tom Bell is a weary, morally reflective sheriff in Cormac McCarthy’s novel and its film adaptation, embodying the struggle to uphold traditional justice amid escalating modern violence.
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E.
Bill Roberts
Bill Roberts was an American animator and film director best known for his work on several classic Walt Disney animated features, including segments of "Fantasia."
- 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: Tommy Davis Target entity description: Tommy Davis was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and third baseman best known for his standout hitting with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the early 1960s.
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A.
Bill Dobson
Bill Dobson is a troubled, charismatic English professor whose personal and professional unraveling drives much of the dark comedy and drama in the Netflix series "The Chair."
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B.
Tommy Maddox
Tommy Maddox is a former American football quarterback best known for his comeback from the Arena Football League and XFL to become an NFL starter and 2002 Comeback Player of the Year with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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C.
Milton Moore
Milton Moore was a cinematographer active during the silent film era, known for his work on early American cinema.
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D.
Ed Tom Bell
Ed Tom Bell is a weary, morally reflective sheriff in Cormac McCarthy’s novel and its film adaptation, embodying the struggle to uphold traditional justice amid escalating modern violence.
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E.
Bill Roberts
Bill Roberts was an American animator and film director best known for his work on several classic Walt Disney animated features, including segments of "Fantasia."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball player
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baseball outfielder ⓘ human ⓘ third baseman ⓘ |
| allStarSelection |
1962
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1963 ⓘ |
| bats | right ⓘ |
| battingTitle |
National League batting champion 1962
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National League batting champion 1963 ⓘ |
| birthName | Herman Thomas Davis Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-03-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2022-04-03 ⓘ |
| era | 20th-century baseball players ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalMLBGameDate | 1976-09-29 ⓘ |
| finalMLBTeam | Kansas City Royals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Herman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 12 ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| MLBDebutDate | 1959-09-22 ⓘ |
| MLBDebutTeam | Los Angeles Dodgers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Tommy Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | standout hitting with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the early 1960s ⓘ |
| occupation | professional baseball player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Phoenix, Arizona, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Baltimore Orioles
NERFINISHED
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California Angels NERFINISHED ⓘ Chicago Cubs NERFINISHED ⓘ Chicago White Sox NERFINISHED ⓘ Houston Astros NERFINISHED ⓘ Kansas City Royals NERFINISHED ⓘ Los Angeles Dodgers ⓘ New York Mets NERFINISHED ⓘ Oakland Athletics NERFINISHED ⓘ Seattle Pilots NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
left fielder
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third baseman ⓘ |
| residence | Phoenix, Arizona, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| statistic |
careerBattingAverage .294
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careerHits 2052 ⓘ careerHomeRuns 153 ⓘ |
| team | Los Angeles Dodgers 1962 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| throws | right ⓘ |
| worldSeriesChampion |
1963
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1965 ⓘ |
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: Tommy Davis Description of subject: Tommy Davis was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and third baseman best known for his standout hitting with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the early 1960s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.