Curtis Granderson
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Curtis Granderson is a former Major League Baseball outfielder known for his power-hitting, speed, and three All-Star selections during a career that included stints with the Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, and New York Mets.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Curtis Granderson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11102211 — 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: Curtis Granderson Context triple: [Northwoods League, notableAlumniInclude, Curtis Granderson]
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A.
JD Ellis
JD Ellis was a prominent South African sports administrator after whom Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg was named.
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B.
Robin Ventura
Robin Ventura is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and later manager, known for his excellent defense, consistent hitting, and long tenure with teams like the Chicago White Sox and New York Mets.
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C.
Wandy Rodríguez
Wandy Rodríguez is a Dominican left-handed pitcher who spent most of his Major League Baseball career with the Houston Astros, known for his curveball and consistency in the starting rotation.
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D.
Freddy García
Freddy García is a Venezuelan former Major League Baseball starting pitcher best known for his successful stints with the Seattle Mariners and Chicago White Sox, including helping lead the White Sox to a World Series title.
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E.
Pat Burrell
Pat Burrell is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and World Series champion best known for his power hitting with the Philadelphia Phillies and San Francisco Giants.
- 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: Curtis Granderson Target entity description: Curtis Granderson is a former Major League Baseball outfielder known for his power-hitting, speed, and three All-Star selections during a career that included stints with the Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, and New York Mets.
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A.
JD Ellis
JD Ellis was a prominent South African sports administrator after whom Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg was named.
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B.
Robin Ventura
Robin Ventura is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and later manager, known for his excellent defense, consistent hitting, and long tenure with teams like the Chicago White Sox and New York Mets.
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C.
Wandy Rodríguez
Wandy Rodríguez is a Dominican left-handed pitcher who spent most of his Major League Baseball career with the Houston Astros, known for his curveball and consistency in the starting rotation.
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D.
Freddy García
Freddy García is a Venezuelan former Major League Baseball starting pitcher best known for his successful stints with the Seattle Mariners and Chicago White Sox, including helping lead the White Sox to a World Series title.
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E.
Pat Burrell
Pat Burrell is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and World Series champion best known for his power hitting with the Philadelphia Phillies and San Francisco Giants.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball outfielder
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human ⓘ professional baseball player ⓘ |
| achieved | 20–20–20–20 season (doubles, triples, home runs, stolen bases) in 2007 ⓘ |
| AllStarSelection |
2009
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2011 ⓘ 2012 ⓘ |
| bats | left ⓘ |
| batsAndThrows | left-handed batter, right-handed thrower ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | University of Illinois at Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1981-03-16 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Detroit Tigers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| draftRound | 3 ⓘ |
| draftYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| engagedIn | philanthropy ⓘ |
| familyName | Granderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Grand Kids Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Curtis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeRunsInSeason | 40 (2011) ⓘ |
| knownFor |
power hitting
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speed ⓘ strong defense in center field ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Detroit Tigers
NERFINISHED
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Los Angeles Dodgers NERFINISHED ⓘ Miami Marlins NERFINISHED ⓘ Milwaukee Brewers NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Mets NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Yankees NERFINISHED ⓘ Toronto Blue Jays NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MLBdebut | 2004-09-13 ⓘ |
| MLBdebutTeam | Detroit Tigers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableJerseyNumber |
14
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28 ⓘ |
| occupation | baseball player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Blue Island, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
center fielder
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outfielder ⓘ |
| retiredFrom | Major League Baseball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| RobertoClementeAward | 2016 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| SilverSluggerAward |
2011
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2012 ⓘ |
| stolenBasesInSeason | 26 (2007) ⓘ |
| throws | right ⓘ |
| WorldSeriesAppearance |
2006
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2015 ⓘ |
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: Curtis Granderson Description of subject: Curtis Granderson is a former Major League Baseball outfielder known for his power-hitting, speed, and three All-Star selections during a career that included stints with the Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, and New York Mets.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.