Salford City F.C.
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Salford City F.C. is an English professional football club based in Salford, Greater Manchester, known for its rapid rise through the lower leagues and high-profile ownership group including former Manchester United players.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Salford City F.C. canonical | 24 |
| Salford City FC | 7 |
| Salford City Football Club | 4 |
| Salford City | 1 |
| Salford City F.C. first team | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T217660 — 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: Salford City F.C. Context triple: [Salford, hasFootballClub, Salford City F.C.]
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A.
Salford City Council
Salford City Council is the local government authority responsible for providing public services and administration for the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England.
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B.
Notts County F.C.
Notts County F.C. is a historic English professional football club from Nottingham, widely regarded as the oldest professional association football club in the world.
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C.
Sheffield Wednesday F.C.
Sheffield Wednesday F.C. is a historic professional football club based in Sheffield, England, known for competing in the English football league system and being one of the oldest clubs in the world.
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D.
Doncaster Rovers F.C.
Doncaster Rovers F.C. is an English professional football club based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, known for competing in the lower tiers of the English Football League system.
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E.
Ardwick A.F.C.
Ardwick A.F.C. was the early incarnation of the football club that later became Manchester City F.C., competing in English football in the late 19th century.
- 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: Salford City F.C. Target entity description: Salford City F.C. is an English professional football club based in Salford, Greater Manchester, known for its rapid rise through the lower leagues and high-profile ownership group including former Manchester United players.
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A.
Salford City Council
Salford City Council is the local government authority responsible for providing public services and administration for the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England.
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B.
Notts County F.C.
Notts County F.C. is a historic English professional football club from Nottingham, widely regarded as the oldest professional association football club in the world.
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C.
Sheffield Wednesday F.C.
Sheffield Wednesday F.C. is a historic professional football club based in Sheffield, England, known for competing in the English football league system and being one of the oldest clubs in the world.
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D.
Doncaster Rovers F.C.
Doncaster Rovers F.C. is an English professional football club based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, known for competing in the lower tiers of the English Football League system.
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E.
Ardwick A.F.C.
Ardwick A.F.C. was the early incarnation of the football club that later became Manchester City F.C., competing in English football in the late 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football club
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professional sports team ⓘ |
| affiliation | The Football Association ⓘ |
| chairman | Karen Baird ⓘ |
| city | Salford ⓘ |
| coOwner |
David Beckham
ⓘ
Gary Neville ⓘ Nicky Butt ⓘ Paul Scholes ⓘ Phil Neville ⓘ Ryan Giggs ⓘ |
| country |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| county | Greater Manchester ⓘ |
| founded | 1940 ⓘ |
| fullName |
Salford City F.C.
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surface form:
Salford City Football Club
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| governingBodyLeague | English Football League ⓘ |
| homeGround |
Moor Lane
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Peninsula Stadium ⓘ |
| honour |
National League North champions 2017–18
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National League play-off winners 2019 ⓘ Northern Premier League Premier Division champions 2014–15 ⓘ |
| kitColorHome |
black socks
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red shirts ⓘ white shorts ⓘ |
| league | EFL League Two ⓘ |
| location | Salford ⓘ |
| majorityInvestor | Peter Lim ⓘ |
| metropolitanBorough |
Salford
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surface form:
City of Salford
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| nickname |
The Ammies
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The Lions ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
high-profile ownership by former Manchester United players
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rapid rise through the English football league system ⓘ |
| originalName | Salford Central ⓘ |
| owner | Project 92 Limited ⓘ |
| promotion |
promoted to EFL League Two in 2019
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promoted to the National League North in 2016 ⓘ promoted to the National League in 2018 ⓘ |
| region | North West England ⓘ |
| rival |
FC United of Manchester
ⓘ
Rochdale A.F.C. ⓘ |
| shortName |
Salford City F.C.
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Salford City
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| sport | association football ⓘ |
| stadiumCapacity | 5100 ⓘ |
| stadiumLocation | Kersal ⓘ |
| stadiumSeatedCapacity | 2600 ⓘ |
| televisionDocumentarySubject | Class of 92: Out of Their League ⓘ |
| tierOfLeague | fourth tier of English football ⓘ |
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: Salford City F.C. Description of subject: Salford City F.C. is an English professional football club based in Salford, Greater Manchester, known for its rapid rise through the lower leagues and high-profile ownership group including former Manchester United players.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Salford City Football Club
this entity surface form:
Salford City
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Salford City F.C. first team
this entity surface form:
Salford City Football Club
this entity surface form:
Salford City FC
this entity surface form:
Salford City FC
this entity surface form:
Salford City FC
this entity surface form:
Salford City FC
this entity surface form:
Salford City FC
this entity surface form:
Salford City FC
this entity surface form:
Salford City FC
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Salford City Football Club
this entity surface form:
Salford City Football Club
subject surface form:
Tom Clarke (footballer, born 1988)