Casey Close
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Casey Close is a prominent American sports agent known for representing high-profile Major League Baseball players and negotiating some of the sport’s most lucrative contracts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Casey Close canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10281749 — 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: Casey Close Context triple: [Gretchen Carlson, spouse, Casey Close]
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A.
Casey Robinson
Casey Robinson was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s, including several celebrated Errol Flynn swashbucklers and romantic dramas.
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B.
Casey Wescott
Casey Wescott is an American musician best known as the keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist for the indie folk band Fleet Foxes.
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C.
Casey Klein
Casey Klein is a struggling actress and comedian who works as a cater-waiter in the satirical television series "Party Down."
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D.
Casey Davenport
Casey Davenport is a character from the animated series "Wings," likely serving as one of the show's central or recurring figures.
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E.
Casey Stoney
Casey Stoney is a former England international defender who has become a prominent women's football manager, known for her successful coaching roles in top-level clubs.
- 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: Casey Close Target entity description: Casey Close is a prominent American sports agent known for representing high-profile Major League Baseball players and negotiating some of the sport’s most lucrative contracts.
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A.
Casey Robinson
Casey Robinson was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s, including several celebrated Errol Flynn swashbucklers and romantic dramas.
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B.
Casey Wescott
Casey Wescott is an American musician best known as the keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist for the indie folk band Fleet Foxes.
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C.
Casey Klein
Casey Klein is a struggling actress and comedian who works as a cater-waiter in the satirical television series "Party Down."
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D.
Casey Davenport
Casey Davenport is a character from the animated series "Wings," likely serving as one of the show's central or recurring figures.
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E.
Casey Stoney
Casey Stoney is a former England international defender who has become a prominent women's football manager, known for her successful coaching roles in top-level clubs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball agent
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human ⓘ sports agent ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Big Ten Conference Baseball Player of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Los Angeles
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New York City ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Michigan ⓘ |
| employer | Excel Sports Management NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
contract negotiation
ⓘ
sports management ⓘ |
| genreOfBusiness | player representation ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Michigan Wolverines baseball team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
negotiating lucrative MLB contracts
ⓘ
representing high-profile Major League Baseball players ⓘ |
| notableWork |
negotiation of Clayton Kershaw’s record-setting contract extensions with the Los Angeles Dodgers
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negotiation of Derek Jeter’s long-term contracts with the New York Yankees ⓘ negotiation of Freddie Freeman’s contracts with the Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers ⓘ negotiation of Jason Heyward’s free-agent contract with the Chicago Cubs ⓘ negotiation of Masahiro Tanaka’s contract with the New York Yankees ⓘ negotiation of Ryan Howard’s long-term contract with the Philadelphia Phillies ⓘ negotiation of Zack Greinke’s high-value free-agent contracts ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
sports agent ⓘ |
| position | partner at Excel Sports Management ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | outfielder ⓘ |
| representedClient |
Alex Cobb
NERFINISHED
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Alex Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ Anthony Rizzo NERFINISHED ⓘ Ben Sheets NERFINISHED ⓘ Brian McCann NERFINISHED ⓘ Charlie Blackmon NERFINISHED ⓘ Clayton Kershaw NERFINISHED ⓘ Craig Kimbrel NERFINISHED ⓘ DJ LeMahieu NERFINISHED ⓘ Derek Jeter NERFINISHED ⓘ Derrek Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Hosmer NERFINISHED ⓘ Freddie Freeman NERFINISHED ⓘ Gerrit Cole NERFINISHED ⓘ Giancarlo Stanton NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason Heyward NERFINISHED ⓘ Jonathan Lucroy NERFINISHED ⓘ Josh Donaldson NERFINISHED ⓘ Josh Hamilton NERFINISHED ⓘ Kerry Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ Kyle Hendricks NERFINISHED ⓘ Kyle Schwarber NERFINISHED ⓘ Luis Severino NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Teixeira NERFINISHED ⓘ Masahiro Tanaka NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Cuddyer NERFINISHED ⓘ Ohtani Shohei (early U.S. posting negotiations context) NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Goldschmidt NERFINISHED ⓘ Rich Harden NERFINISHED ⓘ Ryan Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ Trevor Story NERFINISHED ⓘ Troy Tulowitzki NERFINISHED ⓘ Walker Buehler NERFINISHED ⓘ Yasiel Puig NERFINISHED ⓘ Zack Greinke NERFINISHED ⓘ Zack Wheeler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
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: Casey Close Description of subject: Casey Close is a prominent American sports agent known for representing high-profile Major League Baseball players and negotiating some of the sport’s most lucrative contracts.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.