The Meal Ticket
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The Meal Ticket was the nickname of Carl Hubbell, a Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher famed for his dominant screwball and long tenure with the New York Giants in Major League Baseball.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Meal Ticket canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11089887 — 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: The Meal Ticket Context triple: [Carl Hubbell, nickname, The Meal Ticket]
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A.
The Restaurant
The Restaurant is a television series produced by Reveille Productions that follows the behind-the-scenes drama of launching and running a high-profile restaurant.
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B.
The Biscuit Eater
The Biscuit Eater is a 1940 American drama film about a boy and his misfit bird dog, directed by Stuart Heisler and later remade by Disney in 1972.
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C.
Stranger at the Table
"Stranger at the Table" is a song from Chance the Rapper and Jeremih’s collaborative Christmas-themed mixtape "Merry Christmas Lil Mama."
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D.
The Canteen
The Canteen is a popular bar, live music venue, and social hub in Bristol known for its vibrant atmosphere and support of local arts and culture.
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E.
The Picnic
The Picnic is a vibrant painting by African-American artist Archibald Motley that depicts a lively outdoor social gathering, reflecting his signature focus on Black urban life and culture.
- 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: The Meal Ticket Target entity description: The Meal Ticket was the nickname of Carl Hubbell, a Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher famed for his dominant screwball and long tenure with the New York Giants in Major League Baseball.
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A.
The Restaurant
The Restaurant is a television series produced by Reveille Productions that follows the behind-the-scenes drama of launching and running a high-profile restaurant.
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B.
The Biscuit Eater
The Biscuit Eater is a 1940 American drama film about a boy and his misfit bird dog, directed by Stuart Heisler and later remade by Disney in 1972.
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C.
Stranger at the Table
"Stranger at the Table" is a song from Chance the Rapper and Jeremih’s collaborative Christmas-themed mixtape "Merry Christmas Lil Mama."
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D.
The Canteen
The Canteen is a popular bar, live music venue, and social hub in Bristol known for its vibrant atmosphere and support of local arts and culture.
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E.
The Picnic
The Picnic is a vibrant painting by African-American artist Archibald Motley that depicts a lively outdoor social gathering, reflecting his signature focus on Black urban life and culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hall of Famer
ⓘ
Major League Baseball pitcher ⓘ baseball player ⓘ person ⓘ |
| allStarSelection | 9 ⓘ |
| bats | left-handed ⓘ |
| battingHand | left ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1903-06-22 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Carthage, Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| careerCompleteGames | 260 ⓘ |
| careerEarnedRunAverage | 2.98 ⓘ |
| careerInningsPitched | 3590.1 ⓘ |
| careerShutouts | 36 ⓘ |
| careerStrikeouts | 1677 ⓘ |
| careerWinLossRecord | 253–154 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1988-11-21 ⓘ |
| era | pre-World War II baseball era ⓘ |
| familyName | Hubbell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalMLBGameDate | 1943-09-24 ⓘ |
| givenName | Carl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFame | National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInductionYear | 1947 ⓘ |
| hallOfFameVotePercentage | 87.0 ⓘ |
| hallOfFameVotingBody | Baseball Writers' Association of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
dominant screwball
ⓘ
long tenure with the New York Giants ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| memberOf | New York Giants Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MLBDebutDate | 1928-07-26 ⓘ |
| MLBDebutLeague | National League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MLBDebutTeam | New York Giants NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mostValuablePlayerAward |
National League MVP 1933
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
National League MVP 1936 ⓘ |
| nickname |
King Carl
NERFINISHED
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The Meal Ticket NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableGame | 1934 All-Star Game consecutive strikeouts of five future Hall of Famers ⓘ |
| occupation | professional baseball player ⓘ |
| pitchedForSingleFranchise | true ⓘ |
| position | pitcher ⓘ |
| primaryPitch | screwball GENERATED ⓘ |
| realName | Carl Hubbell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retiredUniformNumber | New York Giants number 11 ⓘ |
| team | New York Giants NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| throwingHand | left ⓘ |
| throws | left-handed ⓘ |
| throwsScrewballWith | left arm ⓘ |
| worldSeriesChampion | 1933 ⓘ |
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: The Meal Ticket Description of subject: The Meal Ticket was the nickname of Carl Hubbell, a Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher famed for his dominant screwball and long tenure with the New York Giants in Major League Baseball.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.