Shreveport Steamer
E51359
Shreveport Steamer was a professional American football team that competed in the World Football League during the mid-1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shreveport Steamer canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T405515 — 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: Shreveport Steamer Context triple: [Don Maynard, memberOfSportsTeam, Shreveport Steamer]
-
A.
Cranch
Cranch refers to the early U.S. Supreme Court case reports compiled by William Cranch, which form part of the nominative reports later integrated into the United States Reports.
-
B.
Durham boat
A Durham boat is a flat-bottomed, shallow-draft cargo vessel historically used on North American rivers, notably employed by George Washington to transport troops across the Delaware River during the American Revolutionary War.
-
C.
Douglas Navigation
Douglas Navigation was an 18th-century canalised waterway in Lancashire, England, created by improving the River Douglas to allow the transport of coal and other goods before being superseded by later canal developments.
-
D.
Cape May–Lewes Ferry
The Cape May–Lewes Ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry service that crosses the Delaware Bay, connecting Cape May, New Jersey, with Lewes, Delaware.
-
E.
Granma yacht
The Granma yacht is the vessel that carried Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries from Mexico to Cuba in 1956, marking the beginning of the Cuban Revolution.
- 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: Shreveport Steamer Target entity description: Shreveport Steamer was a professional American football team that competed in the World Football League during the mid-1970s.
-
A.
Cranch
Cranch refers to the early U.S. Supreme Court case reports compiled by William Cranch, which form part of the nominative reports later integrated into the United States Reports.
-
B.
Durham boat
A Durham boat is a flat-bottomed, shallow-draft cargo vessel historically used on North American rivers, notably employed by George Washington to transport troops across the Delaware River during the American Revolutionary War.
-
C.
Douglas Navigation
Douglas Navigation was an 18th-century canalised waterway in Lancashire, England, created by improving the River Douglas to allow the transport of coal and other goods before being superseded by later canal developments.
-
D.
Cape May–Lewes Ferry
The Cape May–Lewes Ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry service that crosses the Delaware Bay, connecting Cape May, New Jersey, with Lewes, Delaware.
-
E.
Granma yacht
The Granma yacht is the vessel that carried Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries from Mexico to Cuba in 1956, marking the beginning of the Cuban Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World Football League team
ⓘ
professional American football team ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Shreveport, Louisiana
|
| competitionLevel | professional ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfLeague |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| era | mid-1970s ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Shreveport Steamer self-link ⓘ |
| homeCity | Shreveport ⓘ |
| homeState | Louisiana ⓘ |
| isDefunct | true ⓘ |
| league | World Football League ⓘ |
| leagueStatus | defunct ⓘ |
| location |
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Shreveport, Louisiana
|
| notableFor | competing in the World Football League in the mid-1970s ⓘ |
| playedInCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| playedInLeague | World Football League ⓘ |
| professionalStatus | professional team ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| sportType | gridiron football ⓘ |
| teamSport | American football ⓘ |
| teamType | club team ⓘ |
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: Shreveport Steamer Description of subject: Shreveport Steamer was a professional American football team that competed in the World Football League during the mid-1970s.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.