Wigan Athletic F.C.

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Wigan Athletic F.C. is an English professional football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, best known for its rapid rise through the leagues and winning the 2013 FA Cup.

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Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf English football club
association football club
association English Football League
basedIn Wigan
chairman various over time
city Wigan
country England
FAcupFinalWinningScore 1–0 vs Manchester City (2013)
FAcupWinningGoalScorer Ben Watson
firstSeasonInPremierLeague 2005–06
founded 1932
foundedOn 1932-08-22
fullName Wigan Athletic F.C. self-linksurface differs
surface form: Wigan Athletic Football Club
governingBody The Football Association
ground DW Stadium
hasOfficialWebsite https://wiganathletic.com
hasPlayedIn Premier League
hasWon FA Community Shield
surface form: FA Community Shield (as FA Cup winners’ representative, shared/appearance context)

FA Cup
EFL Championship
surface form: Football League Championship

EFL League One
surface form: Football League Second Division / League One titles

EFL Trophy
surface form: Football League Trophy / EFL Trophy
homeCapacityApprox around 25,000 at DW Stadium
homeStadium DW Stadium
kitColors blue and white
league EFL League One
surface form: English Football League One
locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Greater Manchester
nickname Wigan Athletic F.C. self-linksurface differs
surface form: Latics
notableAchievement first major trophy with 2013 FA Cup win
rapid rise from lower divisions to Premier League in early 2000s
notableChairman Dave Whelan
owner various ownership groups over time
participatesIn EFL Cup
EFL Trophy
English football league system
surface form: English Football League system

FA Cup
playedEuropeanCompetition UEFA Europa League
surface form: UEFA Europa League 2013–14
previousGround Springfield Park
region Greater Manchester football
North West England
relegatedFrom Premier League
surface form: Premier League in 2012–13 season
rival Blackburn Rovers F.C.
Bolton Wanderers F.C.
Preston North End F.C.
shortName Wigan Athletic F.C. self-linksurface differs
surface form: Wigan Athletic
sport association football
traditionalHomeColors blue shirts with white details
wonFAcupFinalAgainst Manchester City F.C.
wonTitle 2004–05 Football League Championship runners-up (promotion to Premier League)
FA Cup
surface form: 2012–13 FA Cup

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: Wigan Athletic F.C.
Description of subject: Wigan Athletic F.C. is an English professional football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, best known for its rapid rise through the leagues and winning the 2013 FA Cup.

Referenced by (27)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Maine Road alsoUsedBy Wigan Athletic F.C.
Wigan hasSportsTeam Wigan Athletic F.C.
Wigan hasFootballClub Wigan Athletic F.C.
Wigan Athletic F.C. fullName Wigan Athletic F.C. self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Wigan Athletic Football Club
Wigan Athletic F.C. shortName Wigan Athletic F.C. self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Wigan Athletic
Wigan Athletic F.C. nickname Wigan Athletic F.C. self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Latics
Oldham Athletic A.F.C. nickname Wigan Athletic F.C.
this entity surface form: Latics
Nick Powell memberOfSportsTeam Wigan Athletic F.C.
Bolton Wanderers F.C. rival Wigan Athletic F.C.
Roberto Martínez managedClub Wigan Athletic F.C.
Roberto Martínez playedFor Wigan Athletic F.C.
Wigan Warriors homeStadiumSharedWith Wigan Athletic F.C.
Chorley F.C. traditionalRival Wigan Athletic F.C.
Paul Warne playedFor Wigan Athletic F.C.
DW Stadium homeVenueOf Wigan Athletic F.C.
DW Stadium operator Wigan Athletic F.C.
DW Stadium tenant Wigan Athletic F.C.
Jason de Vos memberOfSportsTeam Wigan Athletic F.C.
Ben Watson playedFor Wigan Athletic F.C.
Ben Watson memberOfSportsTeamDuringEvent Wigan Athletic F.C.
this entity surface form: Wigan Athletic F.C. in 2013 FA Cup Final
Dave Whelan ownerOf Wigan Athletic F.C.
Dave Whelan chairpersonOf Wigan Athletic F.C.
Ron Newman playedFor Wigan Athletic F.C.
Leighton Baines playedFor Wigan Athletic F.C.
Leighton Baines memberOfSportsTeam Wigan Athletic F.C.
Kolo Touré headCoachOf Wigan Athletic F.C.
Sam Morsy playedFor Wigan Athletic F.C.