professional basketball team
C388
concept
A professional basketball team is an organized group of elite basketball players, coaches, and support staff that competes in officially sanctioned leagues and tournaments as a single franchise or club.
All labels observed (26)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| professional basketball team canonical | 226 |
| basketball team | 205 |
| basketball club | 158 |
| NBA 2K League team | 39 |
| WNBA team | 30 |
| professional basketball club | 30 |
| American Basketball Association team | 21 |
| NBA G League team | 21 |
| professional women's basketball team | 11 |
| NBA Development League team | 5 |
| Basketball Association of America team | 4 |
| National Basketball League team | 3 |
| Chinese Basketball Association team | 2 |
| American Basketball League team | 1 |
| Australian basketball entity | 1 |
| CBA team | 1 |
| Continental Basketball Association team | 1 |
| Croatian basketball club | 1 |
| EuroLeague team | 1 |
| Italian basketball club | 1 |
| defunct professional basketball team | 1 |
| minor league basketball team | 1 |
| professional basketball franchise | 1 |
| professional women's basketball club | 1 |
| professional women’s basketball club | 1 |
| women's professional basketball team | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: professional basketball team
Generated description
A professional basketball team is an organized group of elite basketball players, coaches, and support staff that competes in officially sanctioned leagues and tournaments as a single franchise or club.
Instances (654)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
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Portland Expo Building
surface form:
Maine Celtics
|
basketball team |
| Patriots BBC | professional basketball club |
| Richmond Rage | professional women's basketball team |
| Sioux Falls Skyforce | basketball team |
| Gigantes de Carolina (BSN) | — |
|
Danny Biasone
surface form:
Syracuse Nationals
|
— |
| Detroit Shock | WNBA team |
| San Antonio Spurs | — |
| Wings | basketball team |
| Denver Nuggets | — |
|
LAC
surface form:
Los Angeles Clippers
|
— |
|
GSW
surface form:
Golden State Warriors
|
— |
|
Peter A. Tyrrell
surface form:
Philadelphia Warriors
|
— |
| New Orleans Jazz | basketball team |
| UMMC Ekaterinburg women’s basketball | professional women’s basketball club |
| Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. | professional basketball club |
| FC Barcelona Bàsquet | — |
| Cangrejeros de Santurce | — |
| Cariduros de Fajardo | — |
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PHX
surface form:
Phoenix Suns
|
— |
| Virginia Squires | — |
| BC Khimki | basketball club |
| Dynamo Kursk | basketball club |
| UMMC Ekaterinburg | basketball club |
| Milwaukee Bucks | — |
| BC Nokia | basketball club |
| Golden State Warriors | — |
| Portland Trail Blazers | — |
| Orléans Loiret Basket | basketball club |
| Minnesota Lynx | — |
| Los Angeles D-Fenders | basketball team |
| Detroit Pistons | — |
| Nadezhda Orenburg | basketball club |
| Vaqueros de Bayamón | — |
| Memphis Grizzlies | — |
| Nashville Noise | professional women's basketball team |
| Orlando Miracle | WNBA team |
|
KSK
surface form:
Karşıyaka S.K. basketball team
|
basketball team |
| Columbus Riverdragons | — |
| Toros | basketball team |
| New Orleans Pelicans | — |
| Providence Steamrollers | — |
| Denver Nuggets (NBL) | — |
| Limoges CSP | basketball club |
|
JoAnn Mueller
surface form:
Los Angeles Lakers
|
— |
| Austin Spurs | basketball team |
| Japan women's national basketball team | basketball team |
| Houston Mavericks | basketball team |
| Detroit Falcons | — |
| Indianapolis Kautskys | — |