Dale Scott
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Dale Scott is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long career in the majors and for later becoming one of the first openly gay officials in a major U.S. professional sport.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dale Scott canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11516495 — 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: Dale Scott Context triple: [2011 MLB All-Star Game, umpireCrewChief, Dale Scott]
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A.
Daryl Sattler
Daryl Sattler is an American professional soccer goalkeeper best known for his standout performances in the North American Soccer League, particularly with the San Antonio Scorpions.
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B.
Ken Reeves
Ken Reeves is the fictional former professional basketball player who becomes a high school coach in the television drama series "The White Shadow."
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C.
Dennis Drake
Dennis Drake is a screenwriter best known for his work on the romantic comedy film "Down with Love."
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D.
Jeff Blair
Jeff Blair is an athletics administrator who serves as the athletic director for the Panthers sports program.
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E.
Bruce Draine
Bruce Draine is an American astrophysicist renowned for his work on interstellar dust, the interstellar medium, and radiative processes in galaxies.
- 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: Dale Scott Target entity description: Dale Scott is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long career in the majors and for later becoming one of the first openly gay officials in a major U.S. professional sport.
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A.
Daryl Sattler
Daryl Sattler is an American professional soccer goalkeeper best known for his standout performances in the North American Soccer League, particularly with the San Antonio Scorpions.
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B.
Ken Reeves
Ken Reeves is the fictional former professional basketball player who becomes a high school coach in the television drama series "The White Shadow."
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C.
Dennis Drake
Dennis Drake is a screenwriter best known for his work on the romantic comedy film "Down with Love."
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D.
Jeff Blair
Jeff Blair is an athletics administrator who serves as the athletic director for the Panthers sports program.
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E.
Bruce Draine
Bruce Draine is an American astrophysicist renowned for his work on interstellar dust, the interstellar medium, and radiative processes in galaxies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball umpire
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human ⓘ |
| announcedSexualOrientationPublicly | 2014 ⓘ |
| authored | The Umpire Is Out: Calling the Game and Living My True Self NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| becameCrewChief | 2001 ⓘ |
| cameOutIn | Referee magazine interview ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Rob Neyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-08-14 ⓘ |
| employer | Major League Baseball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | officiating in professional baseball ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| league | American League ⓘ |
| madeMLBDebutAsUmpire | 1986 ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableEvent | first active MLB umpire to come out publicly as gay ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy and visibility for LGBTQ+ people in professional sports
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being one of the first openly gay officials in a major U.S. professional sport ⓘ long career as a Major League Baseball umpire ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball umpire
ⓘ
sports official ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Division Series
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League Championship Series NERFINISHED ⓘ MLB postseason games NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Eugene, Oregon, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| position | crew chief ⓘ |
| reasonForRetirement | concussion-related health concerns ⓘ |
| residence | Oregon, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retiredFromMLB | 2017 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| spouse | Michael Rausch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startedWorkingAsMLBUmpire | 1986 ⓘ |
| umpiredAllStarGame |
1993 MLB All-Star Game
NERFINISHED
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2001 MLB All-Star Game NERFINISHED ⓘ 2011 MLB All-Star Game NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| umpiredLeague | American League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| umpiredWorldSeries |
1998 World Series
NERFINISHED
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2001 World Series NERFINISHED ⓘ 2004 World Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| woreUmpireUniformNumber | 5 ⓘ |
| yearsActiveAsMLBUmpire | 1986–2017 ⓘ |
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: Dale Scott Description of subject: Dale Scott is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long career in the majors and for later becoming one of the first openly gay officials in a major U.S. professional sport.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.