Orix Buffaloes

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Nippon Professional Baseball team professional baseball team

The Orix Buffaloes are a professional Japanese baseball team in Nippon Professional Baseball’s Pacific League, known for their home base in the Kansai region and for producing star players like Ichiro Suzuki.

Aliases (3)

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nippon Professional Baseball team → professional baseball team →
abbreviation	ORX →
basedIn	Hyogo Prefecture → Osaka Prefecture →
championship	Japan Series title →
country	Japan →
division	Pacific League →
firstSeasonAsOrixBuffaloes	2005 →
formedByMergerOf	Orix BlueWave → Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes →
formerName	Orix BlueWave → Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes →
governingBody	Nippon Professional Baseball →
hasFarmTeam	Orix Buffaloes farm team →
hasMascot	Buffalo Bell → Buffalo Bull →
homeCity	Kobe → Osaka →
homeCountryLeague	Nippon Professional Baseball →
homeRegion	Kansai region →
homeStadium	Hotto Motto Field Kobe → Kyocera Dome Osaka →
JapanSeriesTitles	multiple →
league	Pacific League →
mergerYear	2004 →
notableEra	Ichiro Suzuki era with Orix BlueWave in 1990s →
notableFormerPlayer	Daisuke Kato → Ichiro Suzuki → Masataka Yoshida → Munetaka Murakami → So Taguchi → Tuffy Rhodes → Yoshihisa Hirano → Yoshinobu Yamamoto → Yoshio Itoi →
notableManager	Akinobu Okada → Satoshi Nakajima →
PacificLeaguePennants	multiple →
parentOrganization	Orix Corporation →
professionalStatus	top-tier →
region	East Asia →
rival	Hanshin Tigers → SoftBank Hawks →
sport	baseball →
uniformColor	gold → navy → white →

Referenced by (37)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Daisuke Kato → Ichiro Suzuki ("Orix BlueWave") → So Taguchi ("Orix BlueWave") → Tuffy Rhodes ("Orix BlueWave") → Tuffy Rhodes →	playedFor
Buffalo Bull → Satoshi Nakajima → Yoshinobu Yamamoto →	employer
Daisuke Kato → So Taguchi ("Orix BlueWave") → Yoshinobu Yamamoto →	memberOfSportsTeam
Orix Buffaloes ("Orix BlueWave") → Orix Buffaloes ("Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes") →	formedByMergerOf
Orix Buffaloes ("Orix BlueWave") → Orix Buffaloes ("Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes") →	formerName
Masataka Yoshida → Yoshinobu Yamamoto →	formerTeam
Yoshihisa Hirano → Yoshio Itoi →	hasPlayedFor
Nippon Professional Baseball → Pacific League →	hasTeam
Buffalo Bull → ORX →	represents
Hotto Motto Field Kobe → Kyocera Dome Osaka →	tenant
Buffalo Bell →	associatedOrganization
Hotto Motto Field Kobe →	hasHomeTeam
Osaka Prefecture →	hasProfessionalBaseballTeam
Buffalo Bell →	mascotFor
Tuffy Rhodes ("Orix Buffaloes organization") →	memberOf
Ichiro Suzuki ("Orix BlueWave") →	NPBdebutTeam
Masataka Yoshida →	NPBTeamDebut
Hotto Motto Field Kobe →	operator
Orix Corporation →	owns
SoftBank Hawks →	rival
Buffalo Bull →	team
Satoshi Nakajima →	teamManaged