Washington Nationals (AA)
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The Washington Nationals (AA) were a 19th-century professional baseball team that competed in the American Association.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Washington Nationals (AA) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5915254 — 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: Washington Nationals (AA) Context triple: [Washington Nationals (American Association), alsoKnownAs, Washington Nationals (AA)]
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Richmond Flying Squirrels
The Richmond Flying Squirrels are a Minor League Baseball team based in Richmond, Virginia, serving as the Double-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.
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B.
Richmond RiverDogs
The Richmond RiverDogs were a minor league ice hockey team based in Richmond, Virginia.
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C.
Greensboro Grasshoppers
The Greensboro Grasshoppers are a Minor League Baseball team based in Greensboro, North Carolina, serving as a developmental affiliate for a Major League Baseball organization.
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D.
Wilmington Blue Rocks
The Wilmington Blue Rocks are a Minor League Baseball team based in Wilmington, Delaware, known for their long-standing presence in the lower levels of professional baseball and their distinctive name and fan culture.
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E.
Winston-Salem Dash
The Winston-Salem Dash are a Minor League Baseball team based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, serving as a developmental affiliate for a Major League Baseball organization.
- 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: Washington Nationals (AA) Target entity description: The Washington Nationals (AA) were a 19th-century professional baseball team that competed in the American Association.
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A.
Richmond Flying Squirrels
The Richmond Flying Squirrels are a Minor League Baseball team based in Richmond, Virginia, serving as the Double-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.
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B.
Richmond RiverDogs
The Richmond RiverDogs were a minor league ice hockey team based in Richmond, Virginia.
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C.
Greensboro Grasshoppers
The Greensboro Grasshoppers are a Minor League Baseball team based in Greensboro, North Carolina, serving as a developmental affiliate for a Major League Baseball organization.
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D.
Wilmington Blue Rocks
The Wilmington Blue Rocks are a Minor League Baseball team based in Wilmington, Delaware, known for their long-standing presence in the lower levels of professional baseball and their distinctive name and fan culture.
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E.
Winston-Salem Dash
The Winston-Salem Dash are a Minor League Baseball team based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, serving as a developmental affiliate for a Major League Baseball organization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century baseball team
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defunct baseball team ⓘ professional baseball team ⓘ |
| abbreviation | Washington Nationals (AA) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | major league ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
USA
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| historicalLeague | American Association (19th century major league) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeCity | Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league | American Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leagueMembership | American Association baseball teams ⓘ |
| location | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| professionalStatus | professional ⓘ |
| region | District of Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| teamName | Washington Nationals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamType | men's baseball 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: Washington Nationals (AA) Description of subject: The Washington Nationals (AA) were a 19th-century professional baseball team that competed in the American Association.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
American Association (1884 season)