Greensboro Hornets
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The Greensboro Hornets were a former minor league baseball team based in Greensboro, North Carolina, that later became known as the Greensboro Grasshoppers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Greensboro Hornets canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5823167 — 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: Greensboro Hornets Context triple: [Greensboro Grasshoppers, formerName, Greensboro Hornets]
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A.
Alabama State Hornets
The Alabama State Hornets are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Alabama State University in NCAA sports.
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B.
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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C.
Newark Eagles
The Newark Eagles were a prominent Negro League baseball team based in Newark, New Jersey, known for fielding several Hall of Fame players and winning the 1946 Negro World Series.
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D.
Greensboro Swarm
Greensboro Swarm is a professional basketball team in the NBA G League that serves as the developmental affiliate of the Charlotte Hornets.
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E.
Charlotte Hornets (WFL)
The Charlotte Hornets were a short-lived professional American football team that competed in the mid-1970s World Football League.
- 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: Greensboro Hornets Target entity description: The Greensboro Hornets were a former minor league baseball team based in Greensboro, North Carolina, that later became known as the Greensboro Grasshoppers.
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A.
Alabama State Hornets
The Alabama State Hornets are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Alabama State University in NCAA sports.
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B.
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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C.
Newark Eagles
The Newark Eagles were a prominent Negro League baseball team based in Newark, New Jersey, known for fielding several Hall of Fame players and winning the 1946 Negro World Series.
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D.
Greensboro Swarm
Greensboro Swarm is a professional basketball team in the NBA G League that serves as the developmental affiliate of the Charlotte Hornets.
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E.
Charlotte Hornets (WFL)
The Charlotte Hornets were a short-lived professional American football team that competed in the mid-1970s World Football League.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | minor league baseball team ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Cincinnati Reds organization
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Florida Marlins organization NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Yankees organization NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Greensboro professional sports history ⓘ |
| basedIn | Greensboro, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city | Greensboro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classLevel | Class A ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | professional baseball ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| governingBody | Minor League Baseball system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSuccessorName | Greensboro Grasshoppers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeBallpark | War Memorial Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeGamesLocation | War Memorial Stadium, Greensboro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeVenueCity | Greensboro, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laterKnownAs | Greensboro Grasshoppers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league | South Atlantic League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| levelOfPlay | Minor League Baseball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedInCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| participation | South Atlantic League season NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Southeastern United States
|
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| state | North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successorTeam |
Greensboro Bats
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Greensboro Grasshoppers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamColor |
green
ⓘ
yellow ⓘ |
| teamNickname | Hornets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamType | professional sports 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: Greensboro Hornets Description of subject: The Greensboro Hornets were a former minor league baseball team based in Greensboro, North Carolina, that later became known as the Greensboro Grasshoppers.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.