SFB
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SFB is the commonly used abbreviation for the San Francisco Ballet, one of the oldest and most prestigious professional ballet companies in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SFB canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2271498 — 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: SFB Context triple: [San Francisco Ballet, alsoKnownAs, SFB]
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A.
SF
SF is the standard two-letter postal abbreviation used to represent the city of San Francisco, California.
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B.
NSB
NSB is the acronym for the National Science Board, the governing body that advises the U.S. government on national science and engineering policy and oversees the National Science Foundation.
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C.
SIF
SIF is the governing body for ice hockey in Sweden, overseeing the national teams and domestic competitions.
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D.
Sieber
Sieber is a small river in the German state of Lower Saxony that flows through the Harz Mountains and into the Oder.
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E.
SAB
SAB is the School of American Ballet, a premier ballet academy in New York City that serves as the official training school for the New York City Ballet.
- 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: SFB Target entity description: SFB is the commonly used abbreviation for the San Francisco Ballet, one of the oldest and most prestigious professional ballet companies in the United States.
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A.
SF
SF is the standard two-letter postal abbreviation used to represent the city of San Francisco, California.
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B.
NSB
NSB is the acronym for the National Science Board, the governing body that advises the U.S. government on national science and engineering policy and oversees the National Science Foundation.
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C.
SIF
SIF is the governing body for ice hockey in Sweden, overseeing the national teams and domestic competitions.
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D.
Sieber
Sieber is a small river in the German state of Lower Saxony that flows through the Harz Mountains and into the Oder.
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E.
SAB
SAB is the School of American Ballet, a premier ballet academy in New York City that serves as the official training school for the New York City Ballet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ballet company
ⓘ
performing arts organization ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor | San Francisco Ballet ⓘ |
| affiliation | San Francisco Opera ⓘ |
| artForm |
ballet performance
ⓘ
dance ⓘ |
| artisticDirector | Tamara Rojo ⓘ |
| artisticDirectorStart | 2022 ⓘ |
| basedIn | War Memorial Opera House ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formerArtisticDirector | Helgi Tomasson ⓘ |
| formerArtisticDirectorTerm | 1985–2022 ⓘ |
| foundedAs |
San Francisco Opera
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco Opera Ballet
|
| foundedBy |
Adolph Bolm
ⓘ
Gaetano Merola ⓘ |
| fullName | San Francisco Ballet ⓘ |
| genre | ballet ⓘ |
| hasEducationalProgram |
adult ballet classes
ⓘ
children’s ballet classes ⓘ pre-professional ballet training ⓘ |
| hasNonprofitStatus | nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| hasSchool |
San Francisco Ballet
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco Ballet School
|
| hasTouringActivity |
international tours
ⓘ
national tours ⓘ |
| hasType | resident ballet company ⓘ |
| hasVenue | War Memorial Opera House ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.sfballet.org/ ⓘ |
| inception | 1933 ⓘ |
| industry | performing arts ⓘ |
| isOneOf |
major American ballet companies
ⓘ
oldest professional ballet companies in the United States ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | San Francisco ⓘ |
| musicDirector | Martin West ⓘ |
| notableProduction |
The Nutcracker, Op. 71
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surface form:
The Nutcracker
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| performs |
full-length narrative ballets
ⓘ
mixed repertory programs ⓘ |
| performsAt | War Memorial Opera House ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | prestigious American ballet company ⓘ |
| regionServed | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| repertoireIncludes |
classical ballets
ⓘ
contemporary ballets ⓘ neoclassical ballets ⓘ |
| seasonType | annual repertory season ⓘ |
| shortName | SFB self-link ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
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: SFB Description of subject: SFB is the commonly used abbreviation for the San Francisco Ballet, one of the oldest and most prestigious professional ballet companies in the United States.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.