Winston-Salem Spirits
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Winston-Salem Spirits was a former minor league baseball team based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, that later became known as the Winston-Salem Dash.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Winston-Salem Spirits canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5675420 — 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)
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Target entity: Winston-Salem Spirits Context triple: [Winston-Salem Dash, formerName, Winston-Salem Spirits]
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A.
St. Louis Spirits
St. Louis Spirits were a short-lived American Basketball Association (ABA) franchise from the 1970s, best known for their colorful history and one of the most lucrative TV-rights deals in sports history.
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B.
Memphis Express
Memphis Express was a short-lived professional American football team based in Memphis, Tennessee, that competed in the Alliance of American Football during its lone 2019 season.
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C.
Wilmington Bombers
The Wilmington Bombers were a professional basketball team that competed in the mid-1940s, known for playing in the early postwar era of organized U.S. basketball.
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D.
Indiana Fever
The Indiana Fever are a professional women's basketball team based in Indianapolis that competes in the WNBA.
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E.
Carolina Lightnin'
Carolina Lightnin' was a professional soccer team based in Charlotte, North Carolina that competed in the American Soccer League in the early 1980s.
- 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: Winston-Salem Spirits Target entity description: Winston-Salem Spirits was a former minor league baseball team based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, that later became known as the Winston-Salem Dash.
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A.
St. Louis Spirits
St. Louis Spirits were a short-lived American Basketball Association (ABA) franchise from the 1970s, best known for their colorful history and one of the most lucrative TV-rights deals in sports history.
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B.
Memphis Express
Memphis Express was a short-lived professional American football team based in Memphis, Tennessee, that competed in the Alliance of American Football during its lone 2019 season.
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C.
Wilmington Bombers
The Wilmington Bombers were a professional basketball team that competed in the mid-1940s, known for playing in the early postwar era of organized U.S. basketball.
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D.
Indiana Fever
The Indiana Fever are a professional women's basketball team based in Indianapolis that competes in the WNBA.
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E.
Carolina Lightnin'
Carolina Lightnin' was a professional soccer team based in Charlotte, North Carolina that competed in the American Soccer League in the early 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct sports team
ⓘ
minor league baseball team ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
1980s
ⓘ
1990s ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith |
Chicago Cubs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cincinnati Reds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Winston-Salem, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classLevel | Class A ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | Minor League Baseball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasSuccessorTeamName |
Dash
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Warthogs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeBallpark | Ernie Shore Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeCity | Winston-Salem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| homeState | North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laterKnownAs | Winston-Salem Dash NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league | Carolina League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Forsyth County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| partOf |
Chicago Cubs farm system
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cincinnati Reds farm system NERFINISHED ⓘ professional baseball in North Carolina ⓘ |
| playedIn | Carolina League regular season ⓘ |
| predecessor | Winston-Salem Red Sox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successor |
Winston-Salem Dash
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Winston-Salem Warthogs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamNickname | Spirits 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: Winston-Salem Spirits Description of subject: Winston-Salem Spirits was a former minor league baseball team based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, that later became known as the Winston-Salem Dash.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.