Gary Sheffield
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Gary Sheffield is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and third baseman known for his powerful hitting, distinctive batting stance, and over 500 career home runs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gary Sheffield canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7786547 — 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: Gary Sheffield Context triple: [Hillsborough High School, hasAlumnus, Gary Sheffield]
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A.
Kevin Millar
Kevin Millar is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder who became a popular baseball analyst and television personality.
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B.
Andruw Jones
Andruw Jones is a former Major League Baseball center fielder, best known for his elite defense and power hitting during his long tenure with the Atlanta Braves.
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C.
Jeff Kent
Jeff Kent is a former Major League Baseball second baseman best known for his powerful hitting, particularly with the San Francisco Giants, and for holding the MLB record for most home runs by a second baseman.
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D.
Chipper Jones
Chipper Jones is a Hall of Fame third baseman who spent his entire Major League Baseball career with the Atlanta Braves, becoming one of the most accomplished switch-hitters in the sport's history.
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E.
Larry Walker
Larry Walker is a Canadian former Major League Baseball right fielder and Hall of Famer renowned for his powerful hitting, strong defense, and standout seasons in the 1990s and early 2000s.
- 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: Gary Sheffield Target entity description: Gary Sheffield is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and third baseman known for his powerful hitting, distinctive batting stance, and over 500 career home runs.
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A.
Kevin Millar
Kevin Millar is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder who became a popular baseball analyst and television personality.
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B.
Andruw Jones
Andruw Jones is a former Major League Baseball center fielder, best known for his elite defense and power hitting during his long tenure with the Atlanta Braves.
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C.
Jeff Kent
Jeff Kent is a former Major League Baseball second baseman best known for his powerful hitting, particularly with the San Francisco Giants, and for holding the MLB record for most home runs by a second baseman.
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D.
Chipper Jones
Chipper Jones is a Hall of Fame third baseman who spent his entire Major League Baseball career with the Atlanta Braves, becoming one of the most accomplished switch-hitters in the sport's history.
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E.
Larry Walker
Larry Walker is a Canadian former Major League Baseball right fielder and Hall of Famer renowned for his powerful hitting, strong defense, and standout seasons in the 1990s and early 2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball player
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human ⓘ |
| AllStarSelection | 9 ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
1992 National League batting title
NERFINISHED
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1992 Silver Slugger Award NERFINISHED ⓘ 1996 Silver Slugger Award NERFINISHED ⓘ 2003 Silver Slugger Award NERFINISHED ⓘ 2004 Silver Slugger Award NERFINISHED ⓘ 2005 Silver Slugger Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bats | right ⓘ |
| careerBattingAverage | .292 ⓘ |
| careerHits | 2689 ⓘ |
| careerHomeRuns | 509 ⓘ |
| careerRunsBattedIn | 1676 ⓘ |
| careerRunsScored | 1633 ⓘ |
| careerStolenBases | 253 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1968-11-18 ⓘ |
| employer | MLB Network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Sheffield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalMLBGameDate | 2009-10-04 ⓘ |
| finalMLBTeam | New York Mets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Gary Antonian Sheffield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Gary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameBallotAppearances | 10 ⓘ |
| hasRole | sports analyst ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| memberOf | 500 home run club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MLBDebutDate | 1988-09-03 ⓘ |
| MLBDebutTeam | Milwaukee Brewers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinctive wagging batting stance
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power hitting ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tampa, Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Atlanta Braves
NERFINISHED
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Detroit Tigers NERFINISHED ⓘ Florida Marlins NERFINISHED ⓘ Los Angeles Dodgers ⓘ Milwaukee Brewers NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Mets NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Yankees ⓘ San Diego Padres NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedPosition |
outfielder
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third baseman ⓘ |
| primaryPosition | right fielder ⓘ |
| relative | Dwight Gooden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retiredFromPlaying | 2010 ⓘ |
| throws | right ⓘ |
| WorldSeriesChampion | 1997 ⓘ |
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: Gary Sheffield Description of subject: Gary Sheffield is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and third baseman known for his powerful hitting, distinctive batting stance, and over 500 career home runs.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.