FC Basel
E442885
FC Basel is a prominent Swiss football club based in Basel, known for its domestic success and regular participation in European competitions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FC Basel canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4392875 — 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: FC Basel Context triple: [BSC Young Boys, rival, FC Basel]
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A.
FC Zürich
FC Zürich is a Swiss professional football club based in Zurich, known for its multiple national championships and participation in European competitions.
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B.
BSC Young Boys
BSC Young Boys is a professional Swiss football club based in Bern, known for competing in the Swiss Super League and regularly participating in European competitions.
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C.
Stade de Suisse
Stade de Suisse is a modern football stadium in Bern, Switzerland, best known as the home ground of Swiss club BSC Young Boys.
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D.
FC St. Gallen
FC St. Gallen is a Swiss professional football club based in St. Gallen and one of the oldest football clubs in continental Europe.
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E.
FC Stade Nyonnais
FC Stade Nyonnais is a Swiss football club based in the town of Nyon that competes in the national league system.
- 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: FC Basel Target entity description: FC Basel is a prominent Swiss football club based in Basel, known for its domestic success and regular participation in European competitions.
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A.
FC Zürich
FC Zürich is a Swiss professional football club based in Zurich, known for its multiple national championships and participation in European competitions.
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B.
BSC Young Boys
BSC Young Boys is a professional Swiss football club based in Bern, known for competing in the Swiss Super League and regularly participating in European competitions.
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C.
Stade de Suisse
Stade de Suisse is a modern football stadium in Bern, Switzerland, best known as the home ground of Swiss club BSC Young Boys.
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D.
FC St. Gallen
FC St. Gallen is a Swiss professional football club based in St. Gallen and one of the oldest football clubs in continental Europe.
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E.
FC Stade Nyonnais
FC Stade Nyonnais is a Swiss football club based in the town of Nyon that competes in the national league system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
football club
ⓘ
sports club ⓘ |
| basedOn | Basel football tradition ⓘ |
| chairman | David Degen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colors |
blue
ⓘ
red ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| countryAssociation | Swiss Football Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | 1893 ⓘ |
| fullName | Fussballclub Basel 1893 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBody | FC Basel 1893 AG NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSection | youth academy ⓘ |
| hasWon |
Swiss Cup titles
ⓘ
Swiss Super League titles ⓘ multiple domestic doubles ⓘ |
| homeGroundOpened | St. Jakob-Park 2001 ⓘ |
| homeKitPattern | half red half blue shirt ⓘ |
| homeStadium | St. Jakob-Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kitColorsHome | red and blue ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| league | Swiss Super League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Basel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname |
Bebbi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
RotBlau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | regular participation in European competitions ⓘ |
| notableFormerCoach |
Christian Gross
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Heiko Vogel NERFINISHED ⓘ Urs Fischer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFormerPlayer |
Alexander Frei
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Granit Xhaka NERFINISHED ⓘ Ivan Rakitić NERFINISHED ⓘ Marco Streller NERFINISHED ⓘ Mohamed Salah NERFINISHED ⓘ Xherdan Shaqiri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatesIn |
UEFA Champions League
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
UEFA Europa League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessorStadium | St. Jakob Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Canton of Basel-Stadt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rival |
BSC Young Boys
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
FC Zürich NERFINISHED ⓘ Grasshopper Club Zürich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortName |
Basel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
FCB NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | football ⓘ |
| stadiumCapacity | St. Jakob-Park ~38,000 ⓘ |
| type | professional football club ⓘ |
| website | https://www.fcb.ch ⓘ |
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: FC Basel Description of subject: FC Basel is a prominent Swiss football club based in Basel, known for its domestic success and regular participation in European competitions.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
St. Jakob-Park