2009 Supporters' Shield
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The 2009 Supporters' Shield was the Major League Soccer regular-season trophy awarded to the team with the best overall record that year.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 2009 Supporters' Shield canonical | 1 |
| Supporters' Shield 2009 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4338107 — 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)
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Target entity: 2009 Supporters' Shield Context triple: [2010 Supporters' Shield, previousEdition, 2009 Supporters' Shield]
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A.
2010 Supporters' Shield
The 2010 Supporters' Shield was the Major League Soccer regular-season title awarded to the team with the league's best record that year.
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B.
2011 Supporters' Shield
The 2011 Supporters' Shield was the Major League Soccer regular-season title awarded to the team with the league's best record, coached that year by Bruce Arena.
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C.
1998 Supporters' Shield
The 1998 Supporters' Shield was the Major League Soccer regular-season honor awarded to the team with the league's best overall record that year.
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D.
1997 Supporters' Shield
The 1997 Supporters' Shield was the Major League Soccer regular-season trophy awarded to the team with the league's best overall record that year.
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E.
2019 MLS Supporters' Shield
The 2019 MLS Supporters' Shield is the annual Major League Soccer trophy awarded to the team that finished the 2019 regular season with the league’s best overall record.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: 2009 Supporters' Shield Target entity description: The 2009 Supporters' Shield was the Major League Soccer regular-season trophy awarded to the team with the best overall record that year.
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A.
2010 Supporters' Shield
The 2010 Supporters' Shield was the Major League Soccer regular-season title awarded to the team with the league's best record that year.
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B.
2011 Supporters' Shield
The 2011 Supporters' Shield was the Major League Soccer regular-season title awarded to the team with the league's best record, coached that year by Bruce Arena.
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C.
1998 Supporters' Shield
The 1998 Supporters' Shield was the Major League Soccer regular-season honor awarded to the team with the league's best overall record that year.
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D.
1997 Supporters' Shield
The 1997 Supporters' Shield was the Major League Soccer regular-season trophy awarded to the team with the league's best overall record that year.
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E.
2019 MLS Supporters' Shield
The 2019 MLS Supporters' Shield is the annual Major League Soccer trophy awarded to the team that finished the 2019 regular season with the league’s best overall record.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Soccer trophy
ⓘ
Supporters' Shield ⓘ sports award ⓘ |
| alsoInvolvesCountry | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedCompetitionType | league ⓘ |
| awardedBy | Major League Soccer supporters ⓘ |
| awardedFor | best regular-season record in Major League Soccer ⓘ |
| awardGivenTo | Columbus Crew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competition | Major League Soccer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| confederation | CONCACAF ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| defendingChampion | Columbus Crew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| determinedBy | points total over full regular season ⓘ |
| followedBy | 2010 Supporters' Shield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | regular-season table ranking ⓘ |
| givesQualificationTo | 2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leagueLevel | top division in United States soccer pyramid ⓘ |
| leagueOrganizer | Major League Soccer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| organizedBy | Supporters' Shield Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | 2008 Supporters' Shield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
MLS Cup 2009
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Supporters' Shield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| season | 2009 Major League Soccer season ⓘ |
| seasonYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| sport |
association football
ⓘ
soccer ⓘ |
| tieBreaker |
goal difference (if teams level on points)
ⓘ
goals scored (if still level) ⓘ |
| trophyType | regular-season trophy ⓘ |
| winner | Columbus Crew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: 2009 Supporters' Shield Description of subject: The 2009 Supporters' Shield was the Major League Soccer regular-season trophy awarded to the team with the best overall record that year.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Columbus Crew
this entity surface form:
Supporters' Shield 2009