Washington Federals
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The Washington Federals were a short-lived professional American football team in the United States Football League (USFL) based in Washington, D.C.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Washington Federals canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7342311 — 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: Washington Federals Context triple: [Scott Norwood, memberOfSportsTeam, Washington Federals]
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A.
Washington Capitols
The Washington Capitols were a professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C., that played in the early years of what would become the NBA.
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B.
Philadelphia Firebirds
The Philadelphia Firebirds were a professional ice hockey team that played in minor leagues during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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C.
Philadelphia Bell
The Philadelphia Bell was a short-lived professional American football team based in Philadelphia that competed in the mid-1970s World Football League.
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D.
New York Empire
New York Empire is a professional equestrian show jumping team that competes in the Global Champions League.
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E.
Washington Commanders
The Washington Commanders are a professional American football team in the NFL based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
- 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 Federals Target entity description: The Washington Federals were a short-lived professional American football team in the United States Football League (USFL) based in Washington, D.C.
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A.
Washington Capitols
The Washington Capitols were a professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C., that played in the early years of what would become the NBA.
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B.
Philadelphia Firebirds
The Philadelphia Firebirds were a professional ice hockey team that played in minor leagues during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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C.
Philadelphia Bell
The Philadelphia Bell was a short-lived professional American football team based in Philadelphia that competed in the mid-1970s World Football League.
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D.
New York Empire
New York Empire is a professional equestrian show jumping team that competes in the Global Champions League.
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E.
Washington Commanders
The Washington Commanders are a professional American football team in the NFL based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football team
ⓘ
United States Football League team ⓘ defunct sports team ⓘ |
| abbreviation | WSH NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| activeSeasons |
1983
ⓘ
1984 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | The Feds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| championships | 0 ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | professional ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1984 ⓘ |
| division | USFL Atlantic Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 1980s ⓘ |
| founded | 1983 ⓘ |
| headCoach |
Dick Bielski
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ray Jauch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeCity | Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeFieldType | outdoor stadium ⓘ |
| homeStadium | Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league | United States Football League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| notablePlayer |
Craig James
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joey Walters NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Hohensee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Berl Bernhard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participation |
USFL 1983 season
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
USFL 1984 season ⓘ |
| playoffAppearances | 0 ⓘ |
| regularSeasonRecord1983 | 4–14 ⓘ |
| regularSeasonRecord1984 | 3–15 ⓘ |
| relocatedTo | Orlando, Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortLived | true ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successorTeam | Orlando Renegades NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamColors |
green
ⓘ
silver ⓘ white ⓘ |
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 Federals Description of subject: The Washington Federals were a short-lived professional American football team in the United States Football League (USFL) based in Washington, D.C.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.