Robert Yates Racing
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Robert Yates Racing was a prominent NASCAR team owned by engine builder Robert Yates, known for fielding competitive cars in the Cup Series during the 1980s–2000s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Yates Racing canonical | 3 |
| Yates Racing | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5734631 — 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: Robert Yates Racing Context triple: [Davey Allison, employer, Robert Yates Racing]
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A.
Wood Brothers Racing
Wood Brothers Racing is a historic and family-owned NASCAR team, founded in 1950, renowned for its innovative pit stop strategies and long-standing presence in stock car racing.
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B.
JTG Daugherty Racing
JTG Daugherty Racing is an American professional stock car racing team that competes in the NASCAR Cup Series.
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C.
Joe Gibbs Racing
Joe Gibbs Racing is a prominent American professional stock car racing team that competes in the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series.
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D.
Galpin Auto Sports
Galpin Auto Sports is a Los Angeles–based custom car shop known for its elaborate vehicle modifications and appearances on automotive reality TV.
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E.
Banjo Matthews Racing
Banjo Matthews Racing was a prominent NASCAR team owned by legendary car builder and crew chief Banjo Matthews, known for fielding highly competitive stock cars during the sport’s early modern era.
- 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: Robert Yates Racing Target entity description: Robert Yates Racing was a prominent NASCAR team owned by engine builder Robert Yates, known for fielding competitive cars in the Cup Series during the 1980s–2000s.
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A.
Wood Brothers Racing
Wood Brothers Racing is a historic and family-owned NASCAR team, founded in 1950, renowned for its innovative pit stop strategies and long-standing presence in stock car racing.
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B.
JTG Daugherty Racing
JTG Daugherty Racing is an American professional stock car racing team that competes in the NASCAR Cup Series.
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C.
Joe Gibbs Racing
Joe Gibbs Racing is a prominent American professional stock car racing team that competes in the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series.
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D.
Galpin Auto Sports
Galpin Auto Sports is a Los Angeles–based custom car shop known for its elaborate vehicle modifications and appearances on automotive reality TV.
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E.
Banjo Matthews Racing
Banjo Matthews Racing was a prominent NASCAR team owned by legendary car builder and crew chief Banjo Matthews, known for fielding highly competitive stock cars during the sport’s early modern era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASCAR team
ⓘ
stock car racing team ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1980s–2000s ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Jack Roush NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Concord, North Carolina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mooresville, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Auto racing teams in the United States
ⓘ
NASCAR teams ⓘ |
| championshipCarNumber | 88 ⓘ |
| championshipDriver | Dale Jarrett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chassis |
Ford Fusion
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ford Taurus NERFINISHED ⓘ Ford Thunderbird NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| engineBuilder | Robert Yates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
1980s
ⓘ
1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ |
| fieldedCarNumber |
28
ⓘ
38 ⓘ 88 ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Robert Yates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
restrictor-plate engine power
ⓘ
strong superspeedway performance ⓘ |
| mainSeries | NASCAR Cup Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mergedInto | Yates Racing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableDriver |
Dale Jarrett
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Davey Allison NERFINISHED ⓘ David Gilliland NERFINISHED ⓘ Elliott Sadler NERFINISHED ⓘ Ernie Irvan NERFINISHED ⓘ Ricky Rudd NERFINISHED ⓘ Travis Kvapil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
competitive NASCAR Cup Series teams
ⓘ
powerful Ford engines ⓘ |
| notableSponsor |
Quality Care/Ford Credit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Texaco Havoline NERFINISHED ⓘ UPS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Robert Yates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partnership | Roush-Yates Engines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | stock car racing ⓘ |
| suppliedEnginesTo | other Ford NASCAR teams ⓘ |
| wonChampionship | 1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series 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: Robert Yates Racing Description of subject: Robert Yates Racing was a prominent NASCAR team owned by engine builder Robert Yates, known for fielding competitive cars in the Cup Series during the 1980s–2000s.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yates Racing