Waseda University Baseball Club
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Waseda University Baseball Club is the historic collegiate baseball team of Waseda University in Japan, known as one of the country’s most prestigious and influential university baseball programs.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Waseda Baseball | 1 |
| Waseda Univ. Baseball Club | 1 |
| Waseda University Baseball Club canonical | 1 |
| longstanding rivalry with Keio University baseball team | 1 |
| 早稲田大学野球部 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T911348 — 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: Waseda University Baseball Club Context triple: [Waseda University, hasSportsTeam, Waseda University Baseball Club]
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A.
Kobe Gakuin University
Kobe Gakuin University is a private Japanese university located in Kobe, known for its diverse undergraduate and graduate programs across fields such as humanities, social sciences, and health sciences.
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B.
Yomiuri Giants
The Yomiuri Giants are a Tokyo-based professional baseball team in Nippon Professional Baseball, widely regarded as Japan’s most historically successful and popular club.
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C.
Yokohama DeNA BayStars
The Yokohama DeNA BayStars are a professional Japanese baseball team in Nippon Professional Baseball’s Central League, based in Yokohama and owned by DeNA.
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D.
Aoyama Gakuin University
Aoyama Gakuin University is a private Christian university in Tokyo known for its strong humanities, social sciences, and business programs and its central urban campus atmosphere.
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E.
Kobe University
Kobe University is a prominent national research university in Kobe, Japan, known for its comprehensive programs in fields such as social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and engineering.
- 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: Waseda University Baseball Club Target entity description: Waseda University Baseball Club is the historic collegiate baseball team of Waseda University in Japan, known as one of the country’s most prestigious and influential university baseball programs.
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A.
Kobe Gakuin University
Kobe Gakuin University is a private Japanese university located in Kobe, known for its diverse undergraduate and graduate programs across fields such as humanities, social sciences, and health sciences.
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B.
Yomiuri Giants
The Yomiuri Giants are a Tokyo-based professional baseball team in Nippon Professional Baseball, widely regarded as Japan’s most historically successful and popular club.
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C.
Yokohama DeNA BayStars
The Yokohama DeNA BayStars are a professional Japanese baseball team in Nippon Professional Baseball’s Central League, based in Yokohama and owned by DeNA.
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D.
Aoyama Gakuin University
Aoyama Gakuin University is a private Christian university in Tokyo known for its strong humanities, social sciences, and business programs and its central urban campus atmosphere.
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E.
Kobe University
Kobe University is a prominent national research university in Kobe, Japan, known for its comprehensive programs in fields such as social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and engineering.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
sports club
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university baseball team ⓘ |
| academicAffiliation | Waseda University ⓘ |
| affiliation | Waseda University ⓘ |
| associatedInstitutionType | private university ⓘ |
| city | Tokyo ⓘ |
| competition | Tokyo Big6 Baseball League championship ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | top-tier Japanese university baseball ⓘ |
| competitionType | intercollegiate baseball ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| countryLeagueSystem | Japanese university baseball ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision |
Tokyo Prefecture
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surface form:
Tokyo Metropolis
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| culturalSignificance | symbol of Waseda University’s athletic tradition ⓘ |
| founded | 1901 ⓘ |
| foundingPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| governingBody | Waseda University Athletic Association ⓘ |
| hasAlumniType |
Japanese national baseball team players
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Nippon Professional Baseball players ⓘ |
| hasGender | men’s team ⓘ |
| homeCity | Tokyo ⓘ |
| homeField | Meiji Jingu Stadium ⓘ |
| homeGamesVenue | Meiji Jingu Stadium ⓘ |
| homeStadium | Meiji Jingu Stadium ⓘ |
| influence | major influence on the development of university baseball in Japan ⓘ |
| JapaneseName |
Waseda University Baseball Club
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
早稲田大学野球部
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| languageOfTeamName | Japanese ⓘ |
| league | Tokyo Big6 Baseball League ⓘ |
| levelOfPlay | collegiate ⓘ |
| location | Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan ⓘ |
| memberOf | Tokyo Big6 Baseball League ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of Japan’s most historic collegiate baseball programs
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Waseda University Baseball Club self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
longstanding rivalry with Keio University baseball team
producing many professional baseball players in Japan ⓘ |
| playsSeason |
autumn
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spring ⓘ |
| prestige | one of Japan’s most prestigious university baseball programs ⓘ |
| region |
Kantō region
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surface form:
Kanto region
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| rival | Keio University Baseball Club ⓘ |
| shortName |
Waseda University Baseball Club
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Waseda Baseball
Waseda University Baseball Club self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Waseda Univ. Baseball Club
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| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| teamColors |
maroon
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white ⓘ |
| teamType | amateur baseball team ⓘ |
| trainingBase | Waseda University baseball grounds ⓘ |
| university | Waseda University ⓘ |
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: Waseda University Baseball Club Description of subject: Waseda University Baseball Club is the historic collegiate baseball team of Waseda University in Japan, known as one of the country’s most prestigious and influential university baseball programs.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Waseda University Baseball Club
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JapaneseName
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Waseda University Baseball Club
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
早稲田大学野球部
Waseda University Baseball Club
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shortName
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Waseda University Baseball Club
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Waseda Baseball
Waseda University Baseball Club
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shortName
→
Waseda University Baseball Club
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Waseda Univ. Baseball Club
Waseda University Baseball Club
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notableFor
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Waseda University Baseball Club
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
longstanding rivalry with Keio University baseball team