Graig Nettles
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Graig Nettles is a former Major League Baseball third baseman best known for his stellar defense and key role on the New York Yankees’ championship teams of the 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Graig Nettles canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10609076 — 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: Graig Nettles Context triple: [Mickey Rivers, notableTeammate, Graig Nettles]
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A.
Ed Kranepool
Ed Kranepool is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder best known for his long tenure with the New York Mets, including his role on their 1969 World Series championship team.
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B.
Sal Bando
Sal Bando was an American Major League Baseball third baseman and four-time All-Star best known for captaining the Oakland Athletics to three consecutive World Series titles in the 1970s.
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C.
Dale Berra
Dale Berra is a former Major League Baseball infielder best known as the son of Hall of Famer Yogi Berra and for his playing career with teams like the Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Yankees.
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D.
Tommy Jay
Tommy Jay is an American musician and songwriter known for his work in the underground indie and lo-fi rock scenes.
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E.
Bert Campaneris
Bert Campaneris is a Cuban-born former Major League Baseball shortstop best known for his speed, defensive skill, and key role on the Oakland Athletics dynasty of the early 1970s.
- 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: Graig Nettles Target entity description: Graig Nettles is a former Major League Baseball third baseman best known for his stellar defense and key role on the New York Yankees’ championship teams of the 1970s.
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A.
Ed Kranepool
Ed Kranepool is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder best known for his long tenure with the New York Mets, including his role on their 1969 World Series championship team.
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B.
Sal Bando
Sal Bando was an American Major League Baseball third baseman and four-time All-Star best known for captaining the Oakland Athletics to three consecutive World Series titles in the 1970s.
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C.
Dale Berra
Dale Berra is a former Major League Baseball infielder best known as the son of Hall of Famer Yogi Berra and for his playing career with teams like the Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Yankees.
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D.
Tommy Jay
Tommy Jay is an American musician and songwriter known for his work in the underground indie and lo-fi rock scenes.
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E.
Bert Campaneris
Bert Campaneris is a Cuban-born former Major League Baseball shortstop best known for his speed, defensive skill, and key role on the Oakland Athletics dynasty of the early 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball player
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human ⓘ third baseman ⓘ |
| AllStarSelection | 6 ⓘ |
| bats | left ⓘ |
| battedAverage | .248 ⓘ |
| coachedFor |
Atlanta Braves
NERFINISHED
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New York Yankees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | San Diego State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1944-08-20 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Minnesota Twins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| draftYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| familyName | Nettles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalMLBGameDate | 1988-10-03 ⓘ |
| finalMLBTeam | Montreal Expos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Graig Nettles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Graig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| GoldGloveAwards | 2 ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction | San Diego Padres Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| handedness | bats left, throws right ⓘ |
| hits | 2225 ⓘ |
| homeRuns | 390 ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber |
12
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9 ⓘ |
| MLBdebutDate | 1967-09-06 ⓘ |
| MLBdebutLeague | MLB NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MLBdebutTeam | Minnesota Twins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
defensive skills at third base
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key role on New York Yankees championship teams in the 1970s ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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baseball coach ⓘ baseball player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Diego, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Atlanta Braves
NERFINISHED
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Cleveland Indians ⓘ Minnesota Twins NERFINISHED ⓘ Montreal Expos NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Yankees ⓘ San Diego Padres NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | third baseman ⓘ |
| runsBattedIn | 1314 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| throws | right ⓘ |
| WorldSeriesChampion |
1977
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1978 ⓘ |
| YankeesCaptainEnd | 1984 ⓘ |
| YankeesCaptainStart | 1982 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Graig Nettles Description of subject: Graig Nettles is a former Major League Baseball third baseman best known for his stellar defense and key role on the New York Yankees’ championship teams of the 1970s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mickey Rivers
subject surface form:
1977 World Series