Xinjiang Flying Tigers
E493434
The Xinjiang Flying Tigers are a professional Chinese Basketball Association team based in Ürümqi, known as one of the league’s top contenders and for developing prominent Chinese basketball talent.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Xinjiang Flying Tigers canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5059477 — 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: Xinjiang Flying Tigers Context triple: [Liaoning Flying Leopards, notableRival, Xinjiang Flying Tigers]
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A.
Qingdao Eagles
The Qingdao Eagles are a professional Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) team based in Qingdao, Shandong, known internationally for briefly featuring NBA star Tracy McGrady.
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B.
Shanghai Sharks
The Shanghai Sharks are a professional Chinese basketball team based in Shanghai that competes in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA).
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C.
Liaoning Flying Leopards (basketball)
The Liaoning Flying Leopards are a professional Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) team based in Liaoning Province that is known as one of the league’s most successful and popular clubs.
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D.
New Taipei Kings
The New Taipei Kings are a professional basketball team based in New Taipei City, Taiwan, competing in the P. LEAGUE+ (PLG).
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E.
Guangdong Southern Tigers
The Guangdong Southern Tigers are a powerhouse professional basketball team in the Chinese Basketball Association, known for their multiple championships and intense rivalries with other top clubs.
- 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: Xinjiang Flying Tigers Target entity description: The Xinjiang Flying Tigers are a professional Chinese Basketball Association team based in Ürümqi, known as one of the league’s top contenders and for developing prominent Chinese basketball talent.
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A.
Qingdao Eagles
The Qingdao Eagles are a professional Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) team based in Qingdao, Shandong, known internationally for briefly featuring NBA star Tracy McGrady.
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B.
Shanghai Sharks
The Shanghai Sharks are a professional Chinese basketball team based in Shanghai that competes in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA).
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C.
Liaoning Flying Leopards (basketball)
The Liaoning Flying Leopards are a professional Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) team based in Liaoning Province that is known as one of the league’s most successful and popular clubs.
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D.
New Taipei Kings
The New Taipei Kings are a professional basketball team based in New Taipei City, Taiwan, competing in the P. LEAGUE+ (PLG).
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E.
Guangdong Southern Tigers
The Guangdong Southern Tigers are a powerhouse professional basketball team in the Chinese Basketball Association, known for their multiple championships and intense rivalries with other top clubs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball team
ⓘ
professional sports team ⓘ |
| basedIn | Ürümqi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | top tier of Chinese professional basketball ⓘ |
| conference | CBA Western Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| fullName | Xinjiang Guanghui Flying Tigers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | men's team ⓘ |
| governingBody | Chinese Basketball Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRivalry |
Beijing Ducks
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guangdong Southern Tigers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headCoach | Adiljan Suleyman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeArena |
Hongshan Arena
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ürümqi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeCapacityApprox | 7000 ⓘ |
| homeCity | Ürümqi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1999 ⓘ |
| league | Chinese Basketball Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Flying Tigers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the top contenders in the Chinese Basketball Association
ⓘ
developing prominent Chinese basketball talent ⓘ |
| notableForeignPlayer |
Andray Blatche
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Darius Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ Jameel Warney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePlayer |
Liu Wei
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tang Caiyu NERFINISHED ⓘ Yi Jianlian NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhou Qi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsInSeason |
CBA playoffs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
CBA regular season ⓘ |
| professionalStatus | professional ⓘ |
| reachedFinals |
2008–09 CBA season
ⓘ
2009–10 CBA season NERFINISHED ⓘ 2010–11 CBA season ⓘ 2013–14 CBA season NERFINISHED ⓘ 2016–17 CBA season ⓘ |
| regionRepresented | Xinjiang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortName |
Xinjiang
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Xinjiang Guanghui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sponsor | Guanghui Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| teamColors |
blue
ⓘ
orange ⓘ white ⓘ |
| websiteLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| wonChampionship | Chinese Basketball Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wonLeagueTitle | 2016–17 CBA season 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: Xinjiang Flying Tigers Description of subject: The Xinjiang Flying Tigers are a professional Chinese Basketball Association team based in Ürümqi, known as one of the league’s top contenders and for developing prominent Chinese basketball talent.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Liaoning Flying Leopards