Tom Zachary
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Tom Zachary was an American left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his long career in the 1910s–1930s and for giving up Babe Ruth’s record-setting 60th home run in 1927.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Zachary canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9535934 — 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: Tom Zachary Context triple: [1928 World Series, game3WinningPitcher, Tom Zachary]
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A.
Zachary
Zachary is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord has remembered," borne by various notable figures including the 12th U.S. president, Zachary Taylor.
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B.
Zachary Williams
Zachary Williams is the eldest son of the late American actor and comedian Robin Williams.
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C.
Zachary De Pue
Zachary De Pue is an American violinist best known as a founding member and former violinist of the genre-blending string trio Time for Three.
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D.
Zachary Hicks
Zachary Hicks was an 18th-century British naval officer best known for serving as second-in-command on James Cook’s first Pacific voyage aboard HMS Endeavour.
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E.
Zack
Zack is a central character in Guy Ritchie's 2005 crime thriller film "Revolver," involved in the movie's intricate web of cons, psychological manipulation, and underworld dealings.
- 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: Tom Zachary Target entity description: Tom Zachary was an American left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his long career in the 1910s–1930s and for giving up Babe Ruth’s record-setting 60th home run in 1927.
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A.
Zachary
Zachary is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord has remembered," borne by various notable figures including the 12th U.S. president, Zachary Taylor.
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B.
Zachary Williams
Zachary Williams is the eldest son of the late American actor and comedian Robin Williams.
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C.
Zachary De Pue
Zachary De Pue is an American violinist best known as a founding member and former violinist of the genre-blending string trio Time for Three.
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D.
Zachary Hicks
Zachary Hicks was an 18th-century British naval officer best known for serving as second-in-command on James Cook’s first Pacific voyage aboard HMS Endeavour.
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E.
Zack
Zack is a central character in Guy Ritchie's 2005 crime thriller film "Revolver," involved in the movie's intricate web of cons, psychological manipulation, and underworld dealings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball player
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human ⓘ |
| 1929Team | New York Yankees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 1929WinLossRecord | 12–0 ⓘ |
| almaMater | Guilford College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bats | left ⓘ |
| battedRuns | 52 ⓘ |
| battingAverage | .226 ⓘ |
| brokeRecordAgainst | Babe Ruth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Yanceyville, North Carolina, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1896-05-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1969-01-24 ⓘ |
| earnedRunAverage | 3.73 ⓘ |
| familyName | Zachary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalMLBGame | 1936-09-28 ⓘ |
| finalMLBTeam | Philadelphia Phillies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Jonathan ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| MLBDebut | 1918-07-11 ⓘ |
| MLBDebutTeam | Philadelphia Athletics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | giving up Babe Ruth’s 60th home run in 1927 ⓘ |
| notableSeason | 1929 ⓘ |
| occupation | baseball player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Graham, North Carolina, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Yanceyville, North Carolina, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Boston Braves
NERFINISHED
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Brooklyn Dodgers NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Yankees ⓘ Philadelphia Athletics NERFINISHED ⓘ Philadelphia Phillies NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Louis Browns NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington Senators NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | pitcher ⓘ |
| recordInvolved | single-season home run record ⓘ |
| season | 1927 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| stateOfOrigin | North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| strikeouts | 720 ⓘ |
| teamIn1927 | Washington Senators NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| throws | left ⓘ |
| winLossRecord | 186–191 ⓘ |
| worldSeriesChampion |
1924
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1928 ⓘ |
| worldSeriesChampionWith |
New York Yankees
NERFINISHED
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Washington Senators NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Tom Zachary Description of subject: Tom Zachary was an American left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his long career in the 1910s–1930s and for giving up Babe Ruth’s record-setting 60th home run in 1927.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.