York Lions
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The York Lions are the varsity athletic teams representing York University in Toronto, competing in multiple sports within Canadian university athletics.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| York Lions canonical | 8 |
| York Lions football team | 1 |
| York Lions soccer teams | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T280485 — 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: York Lions Context triple: [Varsity Blues, notableRival, York Lions]
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A.
Toronto Argonauts
The Toronto Argonauts are a professional Canadian Football League team based in Toronto and one of the oldest existing sports franchises in North America.
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B.
Winnipeg Grenadiers
The Winnipeg Grenadiers were a Canadian infantry regiment that served in both World Wars and is particularly remembered for its heavy losses during the defense of Hong Kong in 1941.
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C.
Atlético Ottawa
Atlético Ottawa is a professional Canadian soccer club based in Ottawa that competes in the Canadian Premier League and is affiliated with Spain’s Atlético Madrid.
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D.
Toronto Maple Leafs
The Toronto Maple Leafs are a historic National Hockey League franchise based in Toronto, known as one of the league’s oldest and most storied teams with a passionate fan base and multiple Stanley Cup championships.
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E.
Ottawa Senators
The Ottawa Senators are a professional ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Ontario, competing in the National Hockey League’s Eastern Conference.
- 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: York Lions Target entity description: The York Lions are the varsity athletic teams representing York University in Toronto, competing in multiple sports within Canadian university athletics.
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A.
Toronto Argonauts
The Toronto Argonauts are a professional Canadian Football League team based in Toronto and one of the oldest existing sports franchises in North America.
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B.
Winnipeg Grenadiers
The Winnipeg Grenadiers were a Canadian infantry regiment that served in both World Wars and is particularly remembered for its heavy losses during the defense of Hong Kong in 1941.
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C.
Atlético Ottawa
Atlético Ottawa is a professional Canadian soccer club based in Ottawa that competes in the Canadian Premier League and is affiliated with Spain’s Atlético Madrid.
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D.
Toronto Maple Leafs
The Toronto Maple Leafs are a historic National Hockey League franchise based in Toronto, known as one of the league’s oldest and most storied teams with a passionate fan base and multiple Stanley Cup championships.
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E.
Ottawa Senators
The Ottawa Senators are a professional ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Ontario, competing in the National Hockey League’s Eastern Conference.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
university athletic program
ⓘ
varsity sports team collective ⓘ |
| affiliation | York University ⓘ |
| associatedUniversity | York University ⓘ |
| campus | Keele Campus ⓘ |
| city | Toronto ⓘ |
| colors |
red
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| competition |
Ontario University Athletics
ⓘ
surface form:
Ontario University Athletics championships
U Sports ⓘ
surface form:
U Sports national championships
|
| competitionLevel |
Canadian university athletics
ⓘ
U Sports national competition ⓘ |
| conference | Ontario University Athletics ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| formerName | York Yeomen ⓘ |
| governingBody |
York University
ⓘ
surface form:
York University Athletics and Recreation
|
| hasGender |
co-ed teams
ⓘ
men's teams ⓘ women's teams ⓘ |
| homeArena |
Canlan Sports York
ⓘ
Tait McKenzie Centre ⓘ |
| homeStadium | York Lions Stadium ⓘ |
| league | U Sports ⓘ |
| location |
Toronto
ⓘ
surface form:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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| mascot | Lion ⓘ |
| province | Ontario ⓘ |
| region | Greater Toronto Area ⓘ |
| represents | York University ⓘ |
| shortName | York Lions self-link ⓘ |
| sport |
cross country
ⓘ
field hockey ⓘ football ⓘ men's basketball ⓘ men's ice hockey ⓘ men's soccer ⓘ rugby ⓘ tennis ⓘ track and field ⓘ volleyball ⓘ women's basketball ⓘ women's ice hockey ⓘ women's soccer ⓘ wrestling ⓘ |
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: York Lions Description of subject: The York Lions are the varsity athletic teams representing York University in Toronto, competing in multiple sports within Canadian university athletics.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
York Lions football team
this entity surface form:
York Lions soccer teams