United States men’s national volleyball team
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The United States men’s national volleyball team is the country’s top elite squad in international men’s volleyball, competing in major tournaments such as the Olympic Games, World Championships, and Volleyball Nations League.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| United States men's national volleyball team | 1 |
| United States men’s indoor national volleyball team | 1 |
| United States men’s national volleyball team canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4398515 — 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: United States men’s national volleyball team Context triple: [NCAA men’s volleyball, pathwayTo, United States men’s national volleyball team]
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A.
United States men's national basketball team
The United States men's national basketball team is the dominant international squad representing the U.S. in global competitions like the Olympics and FIBA World Cup, historically featuring many of the greatest basketball players of all time.
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B.
Team USA
Team USA is the collective name for the athletes and teams that represent the United States in the Olympic and Paralympic Games and related international competitions.
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C.
United States futsal team
The United States futsal team is the national indoor five-a-side soccer team that represents the U.S. in international futsal competitions such as the FIFA Futsal World Cup and CONCACAF championships.
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D.
United States women's national basketball team
The United States women's national basketball team is the dominant international women's basketball squad representing the U.S., renowned for its multiple Olympic and FIBA World Cup gold medals and deep roster of WNBA stars.
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E.
Oracle Team USA
Oracle Team USA is an American yacht racing team best known for its high-profile participation and victories in the America’s Cup under the backing of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.
- 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: United States men’s national volleyball team Target entity description: The United States men’s national volleyball team is the country’s top elite squad in international men’s volleyball, competing in major tournaments such as the Olympic Games, World Championships, and Volleyball Nations League.
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A.
United States men's national basketball team
The United States men's national basketball team is the dominant international squad representing the U.S. in global competitions like the Olympics and FIBA World Cup, historically featuring many of the greatest basketball players of all time.
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B.
Team USA
Team USA is the collective name for the athletes and teams that represent the United States in the Olympic and Paralympic Games and related international competitions.
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C.
United States futsal team
The United States futsal team is the national indoor five-a-side soccer team that represents the U.S. in international futsal competitions such as the FIFA Futsal World Cup and CONCACAF championships.
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D.
United States women's national basketball team
The United States women's national basketball team is the dominant international women's basketball squad representing the U.S., renowned for its multiple Olympic and FIBA World Cup gold medals and deep roster of WNBA stars.
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E.
Oracle Team USA
Oracle Team USA is an American yacht racing team best known for its high-profile participation and victories in the America’s Cup under the backing of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
men’s volleyball team
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national volleyball team ⓘ |
| category |
United States national sports team
NERFINISHED
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men’s national volleyball team ⓘ |
| competesIn |
FIVB Volleyball Men’s Nations League
NERFINISHED
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FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ NORCECA Men’s Volleyball Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ Olympic Games volleyball tournament NERFINISHED ⓘ Pan American Games volleyball tournament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continentalConfederation | NORCECA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| federation | FIVB NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | men ⓘ |
| governingBody | USA Volleyball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBodyHeadquarters | Colorado Springs, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeConfederation | North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeVenueType | indoor sports arena ⓘ |
| level | senior national team ⓘ |
| medalType |
Olympic gold medalist team
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World Championship gold medalist team ⓘ World Cup gold medalist team ⓘ |
| notableCoach |
Doug Beal
NERFINISHED
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Hugh McCutcheon NERFINISHED ⓘ John Speraw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePlayer |
Clay Stanley
NERFINISHED
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Karch Kiraly NERFINISHED ⓘ Lloyd Ball NERFINISHED ⓘ Matt Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ Micah Christenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| olympicBronzeMedal |
1992 Summer Olympics
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2016 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| olympicGoldMedal |
1984 Summer Olympics
NERFINISHED
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1988 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ 2008 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| playsFormat | indoor volleyball ⓘ |
| region | Americas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| represents | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| representsIn | international men’s volleyball competitions ⓘ |
| ruleset | FIVB rules ⓘ |
| sport | volleyball ⓘ |
| uniformColor |
blue
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red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| worldChampionshipGoldMedal | 1986 FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worldCupGoldMedal |
1985 FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Cup
NERFINISHED
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2015 FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Cup 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: United States men’s national volleyball team Description of subject: The United States men’s national volleyball team is the country’s top elite squad in international men’s volleyball, competing in major tournaments such as the Olympic Games, World Championships, and Volleyball Nations League.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
USA Volleyball (indoor national team training)
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United States men’s national volleyball team
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this entity surface form:
United States men’s indoor national volleyball team
this entity surface form:
United States men's national volleyball team