Ned Yost
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Ned Yost is an American former Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Kansas City Royals to the 2015 World Series championship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ned Yost canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T553275 — 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: Ned Yost Context triple: [Kansas City Royals, notableManager, Ned Yost]
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A.
Clint Hurdle
Clint Hurdle is an American former Major League Baseball manager and player best known for leading the Colorado Rockies to their first World Series appearance in 2007.
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B.
Tony La Russa
Tony La Russa is a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball manager best known for his long, successful tenures with the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals, with whom he won multiple World Series titles.
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C.
Charlie Manuel
Charlie Manuel is an American former Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Philadelphia Phillies to multiple postseason appearances, including a World Series championship in 2008.
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D.
Joe Maddon
Joe Maddon is a highly regarded Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series championship in 108 years in 2016.
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E.
Dave Roberts
Dave Roberts is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and the longtime manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, known for leading the team to multiple postseason appearances and a World Series title.
- 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: Ned Yost Target entity description: Ned Yost is an American former Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Kansas City Royals to the 2015 World Series championship.
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A.
Clint Hurdle
Clint Hurdle is an American former Major League Baseball manager and player best known for leading the Colorado Rockies to their first World Series appearance in 2007.
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B.
Tony La Russa
Tony La Russa is a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball manager best known for his long, successful tenures with the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals, with whom he won multiple World Series titles.
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C.
Charlie Manuel
Charlie Manuel is an American former Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Philadelphia Phillies to multiple postseason appearances, including a World Series championship in 2008.
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D.
Joe Maddon
Joe Maddon is a highly regarded Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series championship in 108 years in 2016.
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E.
Dave Roberts
Dave Roberts is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and the longtime manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, known for leading the team to multiple postseason appearances and a World Series title.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball manager
ⓘ
baseball player ⓘ former Major League Baseball manager ⓘ human ⓘ |
| bats | right ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1954-08-19 ⓘ |
| debutAsMLBManager | 2003 ⓘ |
| debutAsMLBPlayer | 1980 ⓘ |
| finalMLBSeasonAsPlayer | 1985 ⓘ |
| finalSeasonAsMLBManager | 2019 ⓘ |
| fullName | Edgar Frederick Yost III ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Edgar ⓘ |
| hasRole |
catcher
ⓘ
manager ⓘ |
| hiredAsManagerBy |
Kansas City Royals
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Milwaukee Brewers ⓘ |
| isRetiredFrom | Major League Baseball managing ⓘ |
| leagueManaged | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| leaguePennantWonAsManager |
2014 American League pennant
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2015 American League pennant ⓘ |
| ledTeamToWorldSeriesChampionship | Kansas City Royals 2015 ⓘ |
| managedTeam |
Kansas City Royals
ⓘ
Milwaukee Brewers ⓘ |
| managedTeamFrom |
Kansas City Royals 2010–2019
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Milwaukee Brewers 2003–2008 ⓘ |
| managedWorldSeriesAppearance |
2014 World Series
ⓘ
2015 World Series ⓘ |
| nickname | Ned ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
ended Kansas City Royals 30-year World Series title drought in 2015
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led Kansas City Royals to back-to-back World Series appearances in 2014 and 2015 ⓘ |
| notableFor | managing Kansas City Royals to 2015 World Series championship ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball manager
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baseball player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Eureka, California
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surface form:
Eureka, California, United States
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| playedForTeam |
Atlanta Braves
ⓘ
Milwaukee Brewers ⓘ Washington Nationals ⓘ
surface form:
Montreal Expos
Texas Rangers ⓘ |
| playedInLeague | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | catcher ⓘ |
| residence |
U.S. state of Georgia
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surface form:
Georgia, United States
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| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| throws | right ⓘ |
| WorldSeriesTitleAsManager | 2015 ⓘ |
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: Ned Yost Description of subject: Ned Yost is an American former Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Kansas City Royals to the 2015 World Series championship.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.