Hereford United F.C.
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Hereford United F.C. was an English football club based in Hereford, best known for its giant-killing FA Cup victory over Newcastle United in 1972 and its passionate local support.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hereford United F.C. canonical | 5 |
| Hereford United FC | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8804285 — 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: Hereford United F.C. Context triple: [Newport County A.F.C., rival, Hereford United F.C.]
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Hereford FC
Hereford FC is an English semi-professional football club based in Hereford, formed in 2014 as a phoenix club following the demise of Hereford United.
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B.
Oxford United F.C.
Oxford United F.C. is a professional English football club based in Oxford that competes in the English Football League system and is known for its passionate local support and yellow-and-blue colors.
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C.
Wycombe Wanderers F.C.
Wycombe Wanderers F.C. is an English professional football club based in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, known for its rise through the lower leagues and memorable cup runs.
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D.
Bristol Rovers F.C.
Bristol Rovers F.C. is an English professional football club based in Bristol, known for its passionate fanbase and long-standing presence in the lower tiers of the Football League.
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E.
Cambridge United F.C.
Cambridge United F.C. is a professional English football club based in Cambridge that competes in the lower tiers of the English football league system.
- 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: Hereford United F.C. Target entity description: Hereford United F.C. was an English football club based in Hereford, best known for its giant-killing FA Cup victory over Newcastle United in 1972 and its passionate local support.
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A.
Hereford FC
Hereford FC is an English semi-professional football club based in Hereford, formed in 2014 as a phoenix club following the demise of Hereford United.
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B.
Oxford United F.C.
Oxford United F.C. is a professional English football club based in Oxford that competes in the English Football League system and is known for its passionate local support and yellow-and-blue colors.
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C.
Wycombe Wanderers F.C.
Wycombe Wanderers F.C. is an English professional football club based in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, known for its rise through the lower leagues and memorable cup runs.
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D.
Bristol Rovers F.C.
Bristol Rovers F.C. is an English professional football club based in Bristol, known for its passionate fanbase and long-standing presence in the lower tiers of the Football League.
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E.
Cambridge United F.C.
Cambridge United F.C. is a professional English football club based in Cambridge that competes in the lower tiers of the English football league system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football club
ⓘ
defunct football club ⓘ |
| basedIn | Hereford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chairman | David Keyte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competitionWinSeason |
2005–06
ⓘ
2005–06 play-offs ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| dissolved | 2014 ⓘ |
| FAcupUpset | Hereford United 2–1 Newcastle United ⓘ |
| FAcupUpsetSeason | 1971–72 ⓘ |
| famousGoal | long-range equaliser against Newcastle United in 1972 FA Cup ⓘ |
| famousGoalScorer | Ronnie Radford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | 1924 ⓘ |
| fullName | Hereford United Football Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBody | The Football Association ⓘ |
| homeStadium | Edgar Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | passionate local support ⓘ |
| leagueTitle | Football League Third Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leagueTitleSeason | 1975–76 ⓘ |
| manager |
Colin Addison
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Graham Turner NERFINISHED ⓘ Jamie Pitman NERFINISHED ⓘ John Sillett NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Foyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname |
The Bulls
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Whites NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
FA Cup victory over Newcastle United in 1972
ⓘ
giant-killing performances in the FA Cup ⓘ |
| playedAtLevel |
Conference National
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
English Football League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| promotionSeason | 1971–72 ⓘ |
| promotionTo | Football League Fourth Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relegatedFrom |
Football League
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Football League Two NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relegatedTo | Conference National NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relegationSeason |
1996–97
ⓘ
2011–12 ⓘ |
| rival |
Cheltenham Town F.C.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kidderminster Harriers F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Shrewsbury Town F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | football ⓘ |
| successorClub | Hereford F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportBase | Herefordshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionalColors |
black shorts
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white shirts ⓘ white socks ⓘ |
| wonCompetition |
Conference National
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Conference National play-offs 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: Hereford United F.C. Description of subject: Hereford United F.C. was an English football club based in Hereford, best known for its giant-killing FA Cup victory over Newcastle United in 1972 and its passionate local support.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hereford United FC