Tigers
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The Tigers are a baseball team name commonly used by various amateur, school, and professional clubs, evoking strength and competitiveness.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tigers canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5459244 — 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: Tigers Context triple: [Braggin' Rights (baseball), team1Nickname, Tigers]
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Tigers
Tigers is the nickname of the Hanshin Tigers, a professional Japanese baseball team based in the Kansai region and one of Nippon Professional Baseball’s most storied franchises.
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B.
Tigers
The Tigers are the athletic teams of Princeton University, most famously represented by the Princeton Tigers men's basketball program known for its disciplined, strategic style of play.
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C.
Tigers
The Tigers are the athletic teams representing Auburn University in collegiate sports competitions.
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D.
Tigers
The Tigers are the athletic teams representing DePauw University in intercollegiate sports.
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E.
Tigers
The Tigers are the athletic teams representing the Rochester Institute of Technology in intercollegiate sports.
- 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: Tigers Target entity description: The Tigers are a baseball team name commonly used by various amateur, school, and professional clubs, evoking strength and competitiveness.
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Tigers
The Tigers are a Major League Baseball team based in Detroit, Michigan, known for their long history, multiple World Series appearances, and passionate fan base.
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B.
Tigers
The Tigers are the athletic teams representing Auburn University in collegiate sports competitions.
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C.
Tigers
Tigers is the nickname of the Hanshin Tigers, a professional Japanese baseball team based in the Kansai region and one of Nippon Professional Baseball’s most storied franchises.
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Tigers
The Tigers are the athletic teams representing Tennessee State University in collegiate sports competitions.
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Tigers
The Tigers are the athletic teams representing Clemson University, best known for their prominent NCAA Division I football program and passionate fan base.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball team
ⓘ
Nippon Professional Baseball team ⓘ |
| city | Detroit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
Japan
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| division | American League Central NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| established |
1894
ⓘ
1935 ⓘ |
| formerHomeStadium | Tiger Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMascot | Paws NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeStadium |
Comerica Park
NERFINISHED
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Koshien Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league |
American League
ⓘ
Nippon Professional Baseball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location |
Detroit, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | American League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Tigers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePlayer |
Al Kaline
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alan Trammell NERFINISHED ⓘ Hank Greenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Lou Whitaker NERFINISHED ⓘ Miguel Cabrera NERFINISHED ⓘ Ty Cobb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retiredNumber |
11
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16 ⓘ 2 ⓘ 23 ⓘ 3 ⓘ 42 ⓘ 47 ⓘ 5 ⓘ 6 ⓘ |
| rival |
Chicago White Sox
NERFINISHED
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Cleveland Guardians NERFINISHED ⓘ Kansas City Royals NERFINISHED ⓘ Minnesota Twins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| teamColors |
black
ⓘ
navy blue ⓘ orange ⓘ white ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| wonWorldSeries |
1935
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1945 ⓘ 1968 ⓘ 1984 ⓘ |
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: Tigers Description of subject: The Tigers are a baseball team name commonly used by various amateur, school, and professional clubs, evoking strength and competitiveness.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.