Greensboro Grasshoppers
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The Greensboro Grasshoppers are a Minor League Baseball team based in Greensboro, North Carolina, serving as a developmental affiliate for a Major League Baseball organization.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Greensboro Bats | 1 |
| Greensboro Bats/Greensboro Grasshoppers (transitional branding) | 1 |
| Greensboro Grasshoppers canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1119596 — 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: Greensboro Grasshoppers Context triple: [Greensboro, North Carolina, hasSportsTeam, Greensboro Grasshoppers]
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A.
Winston-Salem Dash
The Winston-Salem Dash are a Minor League Baseball team based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, serving as a developmental affiliate for a Major League Baseball organization.
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B.
Hartford Yard Goats
The Hartford Yard Goats are a Minor League Baseball team based in Hartford, Connecticut, serving as the Double-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies.
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C.
Pensacola Blue Wahoos
The Pensacola Blue Wahoos are a Minor League Baseball team based in Pensacola, Florida, serving as a Double-A affiliate in professional baseball.
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D.
Richmond Flying Squirrels
The Richmond Flying Squirrels are a Minor League Baseball team based in Richmond, Virginia, serving as the Double-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.
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E.
Trenton Thunder
Trenton Thunder is a Minor League Baseball team based in Trenton, New Jersey, known for its long affiliation with Major League Baseball organizations and family-friendly ballpark experience.
- 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: Greensboro Grasshoppers Target entity description: The Greensboro Grasshoppers are a Minor League Baseball team based in Greensboro, North Carolina, serving as a developmental affiliate for a Major League Baseball organization.
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A.
Winston-Salem Dash
The Winston-Salem Dash are a Minor League Baseball team based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, serving as a developmental affiliate for a Major League Baseball organization.
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B.
Hartford Yard Goats
The Hartford Yard Goats are a Minor League Baseball team based in Hartford, Connecticut, serving as the Double-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies.
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C.
Pensacola Blue Wahoos
The Pensacola Blue Wahoos are a Minor League Baseball team based in Pensacola, Florida, serving as a Double-A affiliate in professional baseball.
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D.
Richmond Flying Squirrels
The Richmond Flying Squirrels are a Minor League Baseball team based in Richmond, Virginia, serving as the Double-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.
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E.
Trenton Thunder
Trenton Thunder is a Minor League Baseball team based in Trenton, New Jersey, known for its long affiliation with Major League Baseball organizations and family-friendly ballpark experience.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Minor League Baseball team ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | Pittsburgh Pirates ⓘ |
| ballparkSurface | natural grass ⓘ |
| basedIn | Greensboro, North Carolina ⓘ |
| city |
Greensboro, North Carolina
ⓘ
surface form:
Greensboro
|
| classLevel | High-A ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | professional ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developmentalLevel | High-A affiliate ⓘ |
| division |
South Atlantic League
ⓘ
surface form:
South Atlantic League Northern Division
|
| formerName |
Greensboro Grasshoppers
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Greensboro Bats
Greensboro Grasshoppers self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Greensboro Bats/Greensboro Grasshoppers (transitional branding)
Greensboro Hornets ⓘ |
| foundedAsFranchise | 1979 ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Minor League Baseball (since 2021 restructuring)
ⓘ
surface form:
Minor League Baseball (MiLB)
|
| hasAbbreviation | GBO ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Baseball teams in North Carolina
ⓘ
Minor League Baseball teams ⓘ Professional sports teams in North Carolina ⓘ South Atlantic League teams ⓘ |
| hasRival |
Asheville Tourists
ⓘ
Hickory Crawdads ⓘ Winston-Salem Dash ⓘ |
| homeBallpark | First National Bank Field ⓘ |
| homeFieldOpened | 2005 ⓘ |
| homeStadium | First National Bank Field ⓘ |
| league | South Atlantic League ⓘ |
| leagueTitle |
South Atlantic League
ⓘ
surface form:
South Atlantic League championship
|
| location | Greensboro, North Carolina ⓘ |
| mascot | Guilford the Grasshopper ⓘ |
| mediaMarket |
Piedmont Triad
ⓘ
surface form:
Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point
|
| operatesIn | professional baseball ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Pittsburgh Pirates
ⓘ
surface form:
Pittsburgh Pirates organization
|
| partOf | Pittsburgh Pirates farm system ⓘ |
| playsIn |
Minor League Baseball (since 2021 restructuring)
ⓘ
surface form:
Minor League Baseball
|
| previousAffiliation | Miami Marlins ⓘ |
| region | Piedmont Triad ⓘ |
| role | developmental affiliate for a Major League Baseball organization ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| state | North Carolina ⓘ |
| teamColors |
black
ⓘ
green ⓘ orange ⓘ white ⓘ |
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: Greensboro Grasshoppers Description of subject: The Greensboro Grasshoppers are a Minor League Baseball team based in Greensboro, North Carolina, serving as a developmental affiliate for a Major League Baseball organization.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Greensboro Bats
this entity surface form:
Greensboro Bats/Greensboro Grasshoppers (transitional branding)