Jeff Reardon
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Jeff Reardon is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who was one of the game's dominant closers in the 1980s and at one point held the all-time saves record.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jeff Reardon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10817548 — 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: Jeff Reardon Context triple: [1987 World Series, saveGame7, Jeff Reardon]
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A.
Stan Coveleski
Stan Coveleski was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his dominant spitball performances with the Cleveland Indians in the early 20th century.
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B.
Bud Norris
Bud Norris is an American former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher who played for several teams, including the Houston Astros and Baltimore Orioles.
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C.
Jake Peavy
Jake Peavy is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher and Cy Young Award winner who starred in the 2000s, particularly known for his dominance with the San Diego Padres.
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D.
Tim Marcum
Tim Marcum was a highly successful American football coach best known for becoming the winningest head coach in Arena Football League history and leading multiple teams to ArenaBowl championships.
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E.
Kyle Lohse
Kyle Lohse is a former Major League Baseball pitcher known for his long career with teams such as the Minnesota Twins, St. Louis Cardinals, and Milwaukee Brewers.
- 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: Jeff Reardon Target entity description: Jeff Reardon is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who was one of the game's dominant closers in the 1980s and at one point held the all-time saves record.
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A.
Stan Coveleski
Stan Coveleski was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his dominant spitball performances with the Cleveland Indians in the early 20th century.
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B.
Bud Norris
Bud Norris is an American former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher who played for several teams, including the Houston Astros and Baltimore Orioles.
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C.
Jake Peavy
Jake Peavy is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher and Cy Young Award winner who starred in the 2000s, particularly known for his dominance with the San Diego Padres.
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D.
Tim Marcum
Tim Marcum was a highly successful American football coach best known for becoming the winningest head coach in Arena Football League history and leading multiple teams to ArenaBowl championships.
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E.
Kyle Lohse
Kyle Lohse is a former Major League Baseball pitcher known for his long career with teams such as the Minnesota Twins, St. Louis Cardinals, and Milwaukee Brewers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball player
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human ⓘ pitcher ⓘ relief pitcher ⓘ |
| achievement | recognized as one of the top relief pitchers of his era ⓘ |
| bats | right ⓘ |
| competitiveLevel | Major League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Reardon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Jeff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPlayedFor |
American League teams
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National League teams ⓘ |
| heldRecord | Major League Baseball all-time saves record ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Atlanta Braves
NERFINISHED
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Boston Red Sox ⓘ Cincinnati Reds NERFINISHED ⓘ Minnesota Twins NERFINISHED ⓘ Montreal Expos NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Mets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Jeff Reardon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
consistency as a relief pitcher
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high career saves total ⓘ |
| occupation | baseball player ⓘ |
| playedInEra |
1980s
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early 1990s ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
closer
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pitcher ⓘ relief pitcher ⓘ |
| recordHeldAs | all-time saves leader ⓘ |
| recordHeldIn | Major League Baseball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordHeldRole | closer ⓘ |
| role |
closer for multiple teams
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late-inning reliever ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| sportDiscipline | professional baseball ⓘ |
| throws | right ⓘ |
| wasOneOfTheMost | dominant closers of the 1980s ⓘ |
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: Jeff Reardon Description of subject: Jeff Reardon is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who was one of the game's dominant closers in the 1980s and at one point held the all-time saves record.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.