Northwest League
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The Northwest League is a Minor League Baseball league that has historically featured Class A short-season teams from the northwestern United States and western Canada.
All labels observed (7)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3803171 — 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: Northwest League Context triple: [PK Park, leagueHosted, Northwest League]
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A.
Midwest League
The Midwest League is a Minor League Baseball circuit in the United States that features Class A affiliates of Major League Baseball teams, primarily located in the Midwestern states.
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B.
Northwoods League
The Northwoods League is a collegiate summer baseball league in the United States and Canada known for developing college players in a minor-league-style environment.
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C.
Eastern League
The Eastern League is a Double-A level Minor League Baseball league in the United States that has long served as a key developmental circuit for Major League Baseball prospects.
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D.
Eastern League
The Eastern League is one of Nippon Professional Baseball’s minor leagues, serving as a developmental circuit for the farm teams of several Central and Pacific League clubs in Japan.
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E.
Coastal Plain League
The Coastal Plain League is a collegiate summer baseball league in the southeastern United States that showcases college players using wooden bats in a minor-league-style environment.
- 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: Northwest League Target entity description: The Northwest League is a Minor League Baseball league that has historically featured Class A short-season teams from the northwestern United States and western Canada.
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A.
Midwest League
The Midwest League is a Minor League Baseball circuit in the United States that features Class A affiliates of Major League Baseball teams, primarily located in the Midwestern states.
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B.
Northwoods League
The Northwoods League is a collegiate summer baseball league in the United States and Canada known for developing college players in a minor-league-style environment.
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C.
Eastern League
The Eastern League is a Double-A level Minor League Baseball league in the United States that has long served as a key developmental circuit for Major League Baseball prospects.
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D.
Eastern League
The Eastern League is one of Nippon Professional Baseball’s minor leagues, serving as a developmental circuit for the farm teams of several Central and Pacific League clubs in Japan.
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E.
Coastal Plain League
The Coastal Plain League is a collegiate summer baseball league in the southeastern United States that showcases college players using wooden bats in a minor-league-style environment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Minor League Baseball league ⓘ |
| affiliation | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | below Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developmentRole | player development for MLB organizations ⓘ |
| formerlyKnownAs |
Northwest League
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Northwest League of Professional Baseball Clubs
|
| geographicFocus | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Minor League Baseball (since 2021 restructuring)
ⓘ
surface form:
Minor League Baseball
|
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasTeamIn |
British Columbia
ⓘ
Idaho ⓘ Oregon ⓘ Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington (state)
|
| historicalClassification |
Class A
ⓘ
Class A Short Season ⓘ Class B ⓘ |
| historicalClassLevel | Class A Short Season ⓘ |
| region |
northwestern United States
ⓘ
Western Canada ⓘ
surface form:
western Canada
|
| seasonTiming | summer ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| sportFormat | professional baseball ⓘ |
| teamType | Minor League Baseball team affiliates ⓘ |
| typicalSeason | short-season schedule ⓘ |
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: Northwest League Description of subject: The Northwest League is a Minor League Baseball league that has historically featured Class A short-season teams from the northwestern United States and western Canada.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Northwest League North Division
this entity surface form:
Northwest League (short-season, historical)
this entity surface form:
Northwest League South Division
this entity surface form:
Northwest League South Division
this entity surface form:
Northwest League championship
this entity surface form:
Northwest League North Division
this entity surface form:
Northwest League West Division
this entity surface form:
Northwest League South Division
this entity surface form:
Northwest League of Professional Baseball Clubs