Iran national football team
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The Iran national football team is the country’s senior men’s side that competes in international football tournaments such as the FIFA World Cup and AFC Asian Cup, representing Iran on the global stage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iran national football team canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7828337 — 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: Iran national football team Context triple: [Iran Football Federation, governsNationalTeam, Iran national football team]
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A.
Iran Football Federation
The Iran Football Federation is the governing body responsible for overseeing and organizing football activities, including the national teams and domestic competitions, in Iran.
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B.
Azerbaijan national football team
The Azerbaijan national football team is the country’s representative men’s side in international soccer competitions, governed by the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan and competing under UEFA.
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C.
Saudi Arabia national football team
The Saudi Arabia national football team is the country’s representative men’s soccer team, known for multiple FIFA World Cup appearances and success in the AFC Asian Cup.
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D.
Jordan national football team
The Jordan national football team is the men's international soccer team representing Jordan in global and regional competitions under the Asian Football Confederation.
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E.
Israel national football team
The Israel national football team is the country’s representative men’s soccer team in international competitions, governed by the Israel Football Association and competing under UEFA.
- 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: Iran national football team Target entity description: The Iran national football team is the country’s senior men’s side that competes in international football tournaments such as the FIFA World Cup and AFC Asian Cup, representing Iran on the global stage.
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A.
Iran Football Federation
The Iran Football Federation is the governing body responsible for overseeing and organizing football activities, including the national teams and domestic competitions, in Iran.
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B.
Azerbaijan national football team
The Azerbaijan national football team is the country’s representative men’s side in international soccer competitions, governed by the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan and competing under UEFA.
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C.
Saudi Arabia national football team
The Saudi Arabia national football team is the country’s representative men’s soccer team, known for multiple FIFA World Cup appearances and success in the AFC Asian Cup.
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D.
Jordan national football team
The Jordan national football team is the men's international soccer team representing Jordan in global and regional competitions under the Asian Football Confederation.
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E.
Israel national football team
The Israel national football team is the country’s representative men’s soccer team in international competitions, governed by the Israel Football Association and competing under UEFA.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national association football team ⓘ |
| asianCupAppearances | 15 ⓘ |
| asianCupTitles | 3 ⓘ |
| asianCupTitleYear |
1968
ⓘ
1972 ⓘ 1976 ⓘ |
| awayKitPrimaryColor | red ⓘ |
| confederation | Asian Football Confederation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Iran ⓘ |
| fifaCode | IRN NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fifaMembership | FIFA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fifaTrigramme | IRN NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstInternationalOpponent | Afghanistan national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstInternationalResult | Iran 0–0 Afghanistan ⓘ |
| firstInternationalYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| firstWorldCupAppearanceYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| gender | men ⓘ |
| governingBody | Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBodyAbbreviation | FFIRI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasQualifiedForTournament |
AFC Asian Cup
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWonTournament | AFC Asian Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeCity | Tehran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeKitPrimaryColor | white ⓘ |
| homeStadium | Azadi Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Team Melli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCoach |
Ali Parvin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Branko Ivanković NERFINISHED ⓘ Carlos Queiroz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePlayer |
Ali Daei
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ali Karimi NERFINISHED ⓘ Javad Nekounam NERFINISHED ⓘ Karim Bagheri NERFINISHED ⓘ Mehdi Mahdavikia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | West Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| represents | Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rival |
Iraq national football team
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saudi Arabia national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ South Korea national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ United States national soccer team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| subConfederation | West Asian Football Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamColor |
green
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| worldCupAppearances | 6 ⓘ |
| worldCupBestResult | group stage ⓘ |
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: Iran national football team Description of subject: The Iran national football team is the country’s senior men’s side that competes in international football tournaments such as the FIFA World Cup and AFC Asian Cup, representing Iran on the global stage.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Group B (2018 FIFA World Cup)