Emirates Team New Zealand

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professional sailing team sports team

Emirates Team New Zealand is a professional sailing team representing New Zealand that is best known for its prominent and often pioneering role in the America’s Cup.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Emirates Team New Zealand canonical	6
America’s Cup teams	1
Team New Zealand	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4180987 — 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: Emirates Team New Zealand
Context triple: [Oracle Team USA, wonAgainst, Emirates Team New Zealand]

A. Royal Ocean Racing Club
The Royal Ocean Racing Club is a prestigious British yacht club renowned for organizing major offshore sailing races, including the Fastnet Race, and for promoting ocean racing worldwide.
B. New Zealand national sailing team
The New Zealand national sailing team is the country’s elite competitive sailing squad, internationally recognized for its strong performances and innovation in major regattas and world championships.
C. Hōkūleʻa
Hōkūleʻa is a traditional Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe renowned for reviving Native Hawaiian wayfinding and long-distance ocean navigation without modern instruments.
D. Hanse Sail
Hanse Sail is a major annual maritime festival in Rostock, Germany, renowned for its gathering of traditional sailing ships and large windjammers from around the world.
E. Squantum Yacht Club
Squantum Yacht Club is a local boating and social club known for serving the waterfront community of Squantum, Massachusetts.
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: Emirates Team New Zealand
Target entity description: Emirates Team New Zealand is a professional sailing team representing New Zealand that is best known for its prominent and often pioneering role in the America’s Cup.

A. Royal Ocean Racing Club
The Royal Ocean Racing Club is a prestigious British yacht club renowned for organizing major offshore sailing races, including the Fastnet Race, and for promoting ocean racing worldwide.
B. New Zealand national sailing team
The New Zealand national sailing team is the country’s elite competitive sailing squad, internationally recognized for its strong performances and innovation in major regattas and world championships.
C. Hōkūleʻa
Hōkūleʻa is a traditional Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe renowned for reviving Native Hawaiian wayfinding and long-distance ocean navigation without modern instruments.
D. Hanse Sail
Hanse Sail is a major annual maritime festival in Rostock, Germany, renowned for its gathering of traditional sailing ships and large windjammers from around the world.
E. Squantum Yacht Club
Squantum Yacht Club is a local boating and social club known for serving the waterfront community of Squantum, Massachusetts.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	professional sailing team ⓘ sports team ⓘ
basedIn	Auckland ONNED1 ⓘ
challengerIn	2007 America's Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ 2013 America's Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ 2017 America's Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ
color	black ⓘ
competitionType	match racing ⓘ offshore sailing ⓘ
country	New Zealand ⓘ
defendedTitleIn	2000 America's Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ 2021 America's Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ
enteredCompetition	TP52 circuit ⓘ Volvo Ocean Race ⓘ
formerName	Team New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ
governingBody	Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron ⓘ
hasWon	America's Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ Challenger Playoffs ⓘ surface form: Challenger Selection Series Louis Vuitton Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ
homeCountry	New Zealand ⓘ
knownFor	foiling technology innovation ⓘ high-performance yacht design ⓘ
lostTitleIn	2003 America's Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ
mainCompetition	America's Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ
nationalIdentity	Kiwi sailing team ⓘ
notableCEO	Grant Dalton NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableCrewMember	Blair Tuke ⓘ Glenn Ashby NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableDesigner	Dan Bernasconi ⓘ
notableFor	pioneering role in the America's Cup ⓘ
notableHelmsman	Peter Burling ⓘ
notableSkipper	Dean Barker ⓘ Peter Burling ⓘ Russell Coutts NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableTactician	Ray Davies ⓘ
represents	New Zealand ⓘ
representsInEvent	2013 Louis Vuitton Cup ⓘ surface form: Louis Vuitton Cup
sponsor	Emirates ⓘ
sport	sailing ⓘ
trainingBase	Hauraki Gulf NERFINISHED ⓘ Waitematā Harbour NERFINISHED ⓘ
wonEditionOf	1995 America's Cup ⓘ 2000 America's Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ 2017 America's Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ 2021 America's Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ
yachtClassUsed	AC50 catamaran ⓘ AC72 catamaran ⓘ AC75 foiling monohull ⓘ International America's Cup Class yacht NERFINISHED ⓘ

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Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Oracle Team USA → wonAgainst → Emirates Team New Zealand ⓘ

2017 America’s Cup → challenger → Emirates Team New Zealand ⓘ

2017 America’s Cup → winner → Emirates Team New Zealand ⓘ

2017 America’s Cup → challengerSelectionSeriesWinner → Emirates Team New Zealand ⓘ

BMW Oracle Racing → competedAgainst → Emirates Team New Zealand ⓘ

this entity surface form: Team New Zealand

AC72 catamaran → notableTeam → Emirates Team New Zealand ⓘ

America’s Cup World Series → participantType → Emirates Team New Zealand ⓘ

this entity surface form: America’s Cup teams

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Referenced by (8)

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