United States U18 national soccer team
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The United States U18 national soccer team is a youth development squad that represents the U.S. in international under-18 soccer competitions and serves as a pipeline to higher national team levels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| United States U18 national soccer team canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13251985 — 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: United States U18 national soccer team Context triple: [Cole Bassett, hasPlayedFor, United States U18 national soccer team]
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A.
United States under-17 national soccer team
The United States under-17 national soccer team is the youth squad that represents the U.S. in international under-17 football competitions and has produced notable players such as Landon Donovan.
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B.
United States men's national under-20 soccer team
The United States men's national under-20 soccer team is the country's youth representative side in international under-20 football competitions, including the FIFA U-20 World Cup and regional CONCACAF tournaments.
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C.
United States men's national under-23 soccer team
The United States men's national under-23 soccer team is the country's Olympic and developmental squad that showcases emerging talent in international under-23 competitions.
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D.
United States women's national under-17 soccer team
The United States women's national under-17 soccer team is the youth women's team that represents the U.S. in international under-17 football competitions and serves as a key development stage for future senior national team players.
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E.
United States women's national under-20 soccer team
The United States women's national under-20 soccer team is the youth women's squad that represents the U.S. in international under-20 football competitions, including the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: United States U18 national soccer team Target entity description: The United States U18 national soccer team is a youth development squad that represents the U.S. in international under-18 soccer competitions and serves as a pipeline to higher national team levels.
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A.
United States under-17 national soccer team
The United States under-17 national soccer team is the youth squad that represents the U.S. in international under-17 football competitions and has produced notable players such as Landon Donovan.
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B.
United States men's national under-20 soccer team
The United States men's national under-20 soccer team is the country's youth representative side in international under-20 football competitions, including the FIFA U-20 World Cup and regional CONCACAF tournaments.
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C.
United States men's national under-23 soccer team
The United States men's national under-23 soccer team is the country's Olympic and developmental squad that showcases emerging talent in international under-23 competitions.
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D.
United States women's national under-17 soccer team
The United States women's national under-17 soccer team is the youth women's team that represents the U.S. in international under-17 football competitions and serves as a key development stage for future senior national team players.
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E.
United States women's national under-20 soccer team
The United States women's national under-20 soccer team is the youth women's squad that represents the U.S. in international under-20 football competitions, including the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
national under-18 association football team
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youth national football team ⓘ |
| ageCategory | under-18 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
USA U18
NERFINISHED
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United States U-18 men’s national team NERFINISHED ⓘ United States under-18 national team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
United States U17 national soccer team
NERFINISHED
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United States U19 national soccer team NERFINISHED ⓘ United States U20 national soccer team NERFINISHED ⓘ United States men’s national soccer team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | international youth football ⓘ |
| confederation | CONCACAF ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| developmentRole |
pipeline to United States U20 national soccer team
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pipeline to United States U23 national soccer team ⓘ pipeline to United States men’s national soccer team ⓘ |
| fifaTrigramme | USA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followsRules | Laws of the Game of association football ⓘ |
| gender | men ⓘ |
| governingBody | United States Soccer Federation ⓘ |
| governingBodyAbbreviation | USSF NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBodyType | national federation ⓘ |
| homeConfederation | North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jerseyType | United States national team colors ⓘ |
| organizedBy | United States Soccer Federation Youth National Teams program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playerSources |
Major League Soccer academies
NERFINISHED
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NCAA college soccer programs NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Soccer Development Academy successor leagues ⓘ overseas professional club academies ⓘ |
| plays |
friendly tournaments
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international friendlies ⓘ youth invitational competitions ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose |
player development
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preparation for higher national teams ⓘ talent identification ⓘ |
| region | North America ⓘ |
| represents |
United States of America
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United States youth players ⓘ |
| selectionBasis |
citizenship or eligibility for United States
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performance in clubs and academies ⓘ |
| sport |
association football
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soccer ⓘ |
| subConfederation | North America Football Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamType |
age-restricted
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non-professional ⓘ |
| typicalPlayerAgeRange | 16–18 ⓘ |
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: United States U18 national soccer team Description of subject: The United States U18 national soccer team is a youth development squad that represents the U.S. in international under-18 soccer competitions and serves as a pipeline to higher national team levels.
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