Canada men’s national under-17 basketball team
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The Canada men’s national under-17 basketball team is the country’s junior male squad that competes in international under-17 basketball competitions under the governance of Canada Basketball.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Canada men's national under-17 basketball team | 1 |
| Canada men’s national under-17 basketball team canonical | 1 |
| Canada national youth basketball teams | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1976894 — 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: Canada men’s national under-17 basketball team Context triple: [Canada men’s national basketball team, hasYouthTeam, Canada men’s national under-17 basketball team]
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Canada men’s national under-19 basketball team
The Canada men’s national under-19 basketball team is the country’s top junior men’s squad, representing Canada in international under-19 basketball competitions such as the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup.
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B.
Canada men’s national basketball team
The Canada men’s national basketball team is the country’s top senior squad in international men’s basketball competitions, representing Canada in events such as the FIBA World Cup and the Olympic Games.
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C.
United States men's national under-17 basketball team
The United States men's national under-17 basketball team is the country's junior national squad that competes in international under-17 competitions and develops young talent for higher-level national teams.
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D.
Canada men's national under-17 soccer team
The Canada men's national under-17 soccer team is the country's youth representative side in international under-17 football competitions, developing young talent for higher national team levels.
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Canada men's national junior ice hockey team
The Canada men's national junior ice hockey team is the country's under-20 squad that competes at the IIHF World Junior Championship and is renowned for its dominant international record and role in developing future NHL stars.
- 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: Canada men’s national under-17 basketball team Target entity description: The Canada men’s national under-17 basketball team is the country’s junior male squad that competes in international under-17 basketball competitions under the governance of Canada Basketball.
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A.
Canada men’s national under-19 basketball team
The Canada men’s national under-19 basketball team is the country’s top junior men’s squad, representing Canada in international under-19 basketball competitions such as the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup.
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B.
Canada men’s national basketball team
The Canada men’s national basketball team is the country’s top senior squad in international men’s basketball competitions, representing Canada in events such as the FIBA World Cup and the Olympic Games.
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C.
United States men's national under-17 basketball team
The United States men's national under-17 basketball team is the country's junior national squad that competes in international under-17 competitions and develops young talent for higher-level national teams.
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D.
Canada men's national under-17 soccer team
The Canada men's national under-17 soccer team is the country's youth representative side in international under-17 football competitions, developing young talent for higher national team levels.
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E.
Canada men's national junior ice hockey team
The Canada men's national junior ice hockey team is the country's under-20 squad that competes at the IIHF World Junior Championship and is renowned for its dominant international record and role in developing future NHL stars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
national under-17 basketball team
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youth national basketball team ⓘ |
| ageCategory | under-17 ⓘ |
| ageLimit | 17 ⓘ |
| category |
Basketball in Canada
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Canada men’s national under-17 basketball team self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Canada national youth basketball teams
Men’s national under-17 basketball teams ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | international ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| fibaZone | FIBA Americas ⓘ |
| gender | men ⓘ |
| governingBody | Canada Basketball ⓘ |
| governingBodyAbbreviation | Canada Basketball ⓘ |
| governingBodyCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| governingBodyType | national basketball federation ⓘ |
| representedIn |
FIBA Americas Under-16 Championship
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FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup ⓘ
surface form:
FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup
|
| represents | Canada ⓘ |
| representsInSport | Canada in international under-17 men’s basketball competitions ⓘ |
| selectionBasis | Canadian youth players ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| sportGoverningConfederation | FIBA ⓘ |
| teamLevel | under-age national team ⓘ |
| teamType | junior national team ⓘ |
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: Canada men’s national under-17 basketball team Description of subject: The Canada men’s national under-17 basketball team is the country’s junior male squad that competes in international under-17 basketball competitions under the governance of Canada Basketball.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Canada men’s national basketball team
→
hasYouthTeam
→
Canada men’s national under-17 basketball team
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this entity surface form:
Canada men's national under-17 basketball team
Canada men’s national under-17 basketball team
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category
→
Canada men’s national under-17 basketball team
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Canada national youth basketball teams