1987 New York Mets season
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The 1987 New York Mets season was the Major League Baseball campaign in which the defending World Series champions attempted to repeat their success but ultimately finished second in the National League East.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1987 New York Mets season canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7647138 — 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 New York Mets season Context triple: [1986 New York Mets season, followedBySeason, 1987 New York Mets season]
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A.
1986 New York Mets season
The 1986 New York Mets season was a championship-winning Major League Baseball campaign in which the Mets, nicknamed the "Amazins," captured the World Series in dramatic fashion.
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B.
1969 New York Mets season
The 1969 New York Mets season was the franchise’s historic “Miracle Mets” campaign, culminating in an unexpected World Series championship that transformed a once-struggling expansion team into baseball legends.
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C.
1987 National League Championship Series
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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D.
1980 New York Yankees season
The 1980 New York Yankees season was a Major League Baseball campaign in which the Yankees returned to prominence by winning the American League East title before falling short in the postseason.
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E.
1987 World Series games
The 1987 World Series games were the championship baseball series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Minnesota Twins that determined Major League Baseball’s world champion for the 1987 season.
- 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 New York Mets season Target entity description: The 1987 New York Mets season was the Major League Baseball campaign in which the defending World Series champions attempted to repeat their success but ultimately finished second in the National League East.
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A.
1986 New York Mets season
The 1986 New York Mets season was a championship-winning Major League Baseball campaign in which the Mets, nicknamed the "Amazins," captured the World Series in dramatic fashion.
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B.
1969 New York Mets season
The 1969 New York Mets season was the franchise’s historic “Miracle Mets” campaign, culminating in an unexpected World Series championship that transformed a once-struggling expansion team into baseball legends.
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C.
1987 National League Championship Series
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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D.
1980 New York Yankees season
The 1980 New York Yankees season was a Major League Baseball campaign in which the Yankees returned to prominence by winning the American League East title before falling short in the postseason.
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E.
1987 World Series games
The 1987 World Series games were the championship baseball series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Minnesota Twins that determined Major League Baseball’s world champion for the 1987 season.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Major League Baseball season ⓘ |
| attemptedToRepeatAs | World Series champions ⓘ |
| ballpark | Shea Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borough | Queens ⓘ |
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| competition | Major League Baseball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| defendingChampionFrom | 1986 World Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| defendingChampionTeam | New York Mets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| division | National League East NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| divisionLevel | East Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finished | second place in National League East ⓘ |
| franchise | New York Mets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| generalManager | Frank Cashen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeBorough | Queens, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeCity | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeField | Shea Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league | National League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leagueDivision | National League East Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manager | Davey Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nextSeason | 1988 New York Mets season NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner |
Fred Wilpon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nelson Doubleday Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousSeason | 1986 New York Mets season ⓘ |
| seasonOfLeague | 1987 Major League Baseball season NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| team | New York Mets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamNickname | Mets 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 New York Mets season Description of subject: The 1987 New York Mets season was the Major League Baseball campaign in which the defending World Series champions attempted to repeat their success but ultimately finished second in the National League East.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.