The Tangerines
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The Tangerines is the popular nickname of Dundee United F.C., a Scottish professional football club based in Dundee known for its distinctive orange home kit.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Tangerines canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4986957 — 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: The Tangerines Context triple: [Dundee United F.C., nickname, The Tangerines]
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A.
The Yellows
The Yellows is a common nickname for Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C., one of Israel’s most successful and popular football clubs, known for its yellow team colors.
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B.
The Yellows
The Yellows is the nickname of Warrington Town F.C., an English football club based in Warrington, Cheshire.
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C.
The Yellows
The Yellows is the nickname of English football club Oxford United, derived from the team’s traditional yellow home shirts.
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D.
The Sparrows
The Sparrows were a 1960s Canadian rock band best known as an early incarnation of Steppenwolf, featuring future Steppenwolf frontman John Kay.
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E.
The Pepperpots
The Pepperpots are a recurring group of shrill-voiced, middle-aged female characters in Monty Python sketches, typically portrayed by the male cast in drag for comedic effect.
- 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: The Tangerines Target entity description: The Tangerines is the popular nickname of Dundee United F.C., a Scottish professional football club based in Dundee known for its distinctive orange home kit.
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A.
The Yellows
The Yellows is a common nickname for Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C., one of Israel’s most successful and popular football clubs, known for its yellow team colors.
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B.
The Yellows
The Yellows is the nickname of Warrington Town F.C., an English football club based in Warrington, Cheshire.
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C.
The Yellows
The Yellows is the nickname of English football club Oxford United, derived from the team’s traditional yellow home shirts.
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D.
The Sparrows
The Sparrows were a 1960s Canadian rock band best known as an early incarnation of Steppenwolf, featuring future Steppenwolf frontman John Kay.
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E.
The Pepperpots
The Pepperpots are a recurring group of shrill-voiced, middle-aged female characters in Monty Python sketches, typically portrayed by the male cast in drag for comedic effect.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | football club nickname ⓘ |
| basedIn | Dundee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cityRivalry | shares city with Dundee F.C. ⓘ |
| clubRenamedToDundeeUnited | 1923 ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| derby | Dundee derby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| europeanFinalAppearance | 1987 UEFA Cup Final NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| europeanSemiFinalAppearance | 1983–84 European Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fanCultureFeature | strong local rivalry with Dundee F.C. ⓘ |
| foundedAsClub | 1909 ⓘ |
| fullClubName | Dundee United Football Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBody | Scottish Football Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeCity | Dundee, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeKitColor | orange ⓘ |
| homeKitPrimaryColor | tangerine ⓘ |
| homeStadium | Tannadice Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeStadiumCapacityApprox | 14000 ⓘ |
| homeStadiumLocation | Tannadice Street, Dundee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kitNicknameOrigin | derived from the club’s tangerine/orange home shirts ⓘ |
| league |
Scottish Premiership
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scottish Professional Football League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorTrophy |
Scottish Cup
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scottish League Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottish Premier Division title NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableManager | Jim McLean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableManagerTenureEnd | 1993 ⓘ |
| notableManagerTenureStart | 1971 ⓘ |
| originalClubName | Dundee Hibernian F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | UEFA competitions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatesIn |
Scottish Cup
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scottish League Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsIn | top tiers of Scottish football ⓘ |
| refersTo | Dundee United F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rival | Dundee F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortName | Dundee United NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| stadiumProximityToRival | Tannadice Park and Dens Park are very close together ⓘ |
| supporterDemonym | Arabs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionalHomeKitPattern | predominantly tangerine shirts ⓘ |
| wonScottishCup |
1993–94
ⓘ
2009–10 ⓘ |
| wonScottishLeagueCup |
1979–80
ⓘ
1980–81 ⓘ |
| wonScottishLeagueTitle | 1982–83 ⓘ |
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: The Tangerines Description of subject: The Tangerines is the popular nickname of Dundee United F.C., a Scottish professional football club based in Dundee known for its distinctive orange home kit.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.