La Sele
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La Sele is the popular nickname for Costa Rica’s national football team, known for its passionate fan base and memorable World Cup performances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Sele canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6004015 — 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: La Sele Context triple: [Costa Rica national football team, nickname, La Sele]
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A.
Diez
Diez is a small historic town in western Germany’s Rhineland-Palatinate, known for its picturesque setting on the Lahn River and its prominent hilltop castle.
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B.
Le Select
Le Select is a historic Parisian café in the Montparnasse district, long associated with artists, writers, and intellectuals.
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C.
La Pelona
La Pelona is a volcanic peak in the Dominican Republic that forms part of the San Cristóbal region’s volcanic landscape.
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D.
La Pelona
La Pelona is one of the highest mountain peaks in the Dominican Republic, located within the Cordillera Central range.
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E.
El Popo
El Popo is the colloquial name for Popocatépetl, one of Mexico’s most active and iconic volcanoes located near Mexico City.
- 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: La Sele Target entity description: La Sele is the popular nickname for Costa Rica’s national football team, known for its passionate fan base and memorable World Cup performances.
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A.
Diez
Diez is a small historic town in western Germany’s Rhineland-Palatinate, known for its picturesque setting on the Lahn River and its prominent hilltop castle.
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B.
Le Select
Le Select is a historic Parisian café in the Montparnasse district, long associated with artists, writers, and intellectuals.
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C.
La Pelona
La Pelona is a volcanic peak in the Dominican Republic that forms part of the San Cristóbal region’s volcanic landscape.
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D.
La Pelona
La Pelona is one of the highest mountain peaks in the Dominican Republic, located within the Cordillera Central range.
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E.
El Popo
El Popo is the colloquial name for Popocatépetl, one of Mexico’s most active and iconic volcanoes located near Mexico City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Costa Rica national football team ⓘ |
| 2014WorldCupAchievement | topped Group D ⓘ |
| 2014WorldCupGroup | Group D ⓘ |
| 2014WorldCupGroupOpponents |
England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ Uruguay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 2014WorldCupKnockoutAchievement | eliminated Greece in Round of 16 ⓘ |
| 2014WorldCupQuarterFinalOutcome | lost to Netherlands on penalties ⓘ |
| bestWorldCupResult | 2014 FIFA World Cup quarter-finals ⓘ |
| confederation | CONCACAF ⓘ |
| continentalConfederation | North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Costa Rica ⓘ |
| fanBaseCharacteristic | passionate supporters ⓘ |
| FIFAaffiliation | FIFA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FIFAcode | CRC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstInternationalMatch | 1921 ⓘ |
| governingBody | Costa Rican Football Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicRival |
Honduras national football team
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mexico national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ Panama national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ United States men’s national soccer team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeCity | San José NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeStadium | Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kitColors |
blue shorts
ⓘ
red shirt ⓘ white socks ⓘ |
| languageOfSupporters | Spanish ⓘ |
| nickname |
La Sele
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
La Tricolor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCoach |
Alexandre Guimarães
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jorge Luis Pinto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePlayer |
Bryan Ruiz
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Celso Borges NERFINISHED ⓘ Keylor Navas NERFINISHED ⓘ Paulo Wanchope NERFINISHED ⓘ Óscar Duarte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableTournament | FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Central America ⓘ |
| regionalTournament |
CONCACAF Gold Cup
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
CONCACAF Nations League NERFINISHED ⓘ Copa Centroamericana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| represents | Costa Rica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| subConfederation | UNCAF NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supporterCulture | use of drums and chants in stadiums ⓘ |
| WorldCupAppearances |
1990 FIFA World Cup
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
2002 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ 2006 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ 2014 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ 2018 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ 2022 FIFA World Cup 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: La Sele Description of subject: La Sele is the popular nickname for Costa Rica’s national football team, known for its passionate fan base and memorable World Cup performances.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.