1946–47 BAA season
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The 1946–47 BAA season was the inaugural professional basketball campaign of the league that would later become the National Basketball Association (NBA).
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 1946–47 BAA season canonical | 5 |
| 1947 BAA Finals | 2 |
| BAA playoffs 1947 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T183451 — 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: 1946–47 BAA season Context triple: [Basketball Association of America, firstSeason, 1946–47 BAA season]
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A.
1948–49 BAA season
The 1948–49 BAA season was the final campaign of the Basketball Association of America before it merged with the National Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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B.
New York Nets (ABA)
The New York Nets (ABA) were a professional basketball team that competed in the American Basketball Association before joining the NBA as the New Jersey Nets.
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C.
Basketball Association of America
The Basketball Association of America was a pioneering professional basketball league in North America that later merged with the National Basketball League to form the modern National Basketball Association (NBA).
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D.
Indiana Pacers (ABA)
The Indiana Pacers (ABA) were a successful professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association, known as one of the league’s premier franchises before joining the NBA.
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E.
Baltimore Bullets
The Baltimore Bullets were a professional basketball team that played in the 1940s–1950s and later became part of the early NBA before folding.
- 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: 1946–47 BAA season Target entity description: The 1946–47 BAA season was the inaugural professional basketball campaign of the league that would later become the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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A.
1948–49 BAA season
The 1948–49 BAA season was the final campaign of the Basketball Association of America before it merged with the National Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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B.
New York Nets (ABA)
The New York Nets (ABA) were a professional basketball team that competed in the American Basketball Association before joining the NBA as the New Jersey Nets.
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C.
Basketball Association of America
The Basketball Association of America was a pioneering professional basketball league in North America that later merged with the National Basketball League to form the modern National Basketball Association (NBA).
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D.
Indiana Pacers (ABA)
The Indiana Pacers (ABA) were a successful professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association, known as one of the league’s premier franchises before joining the NBA.
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E.
Baltimore Bullets
The Baltimore Bullets were a professional basketball team that played in the 1940s–1950s and later became part of the early NBA before folding.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
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: 1946–47 BAA season Description of subject: The 1946–47 BAA season was the inaugural professional basketball campaign of the league that would later become the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Basketball Association of America
this entity surface form:
1947 BAA Finals
this entity surface form:
1947 BAA Finals
this entity surface form:
BAA playoffs 1947