Sacramento Gold Miners
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The Sacramento Gold Miners were a short-lived Canadian Football League team based in Sacramento, California, notable as one of the CFL’s early attempts to expand into the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sacramento Gold Miners canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8831166 — 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: Sacramento Gold Miners Context triple: [Bill Goldberg, memberOfSportsTeam, Sacramento Gold Miners]
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A.
Reno Aces
The Reno Aces are a Minor League Baseball team based in Reno, Nevada, serving as the Triple-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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B.
Sacramento Solons
The Sacramento Solons were a historic minor league baseball team based in Sacramento, California, that competed for many years in the Pacific Coast League.
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C.
Sacramento River Cats
The Sacramento River Cats are a Minor League Baseball team based in West Sacramento, California, serving as a Triple-A affiliate and known for strong fan support and multiple league championships.
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D.
Leland Giants
The Leland Giants were a prominent early 20th-century African American baseball team from Chicago that became one of the powerhouse clubs of the pre–Negro Leagues era.
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E.
Modesto Nuts
The Modesto Nuts are a Minor League Baseball team based in Modesto, California, competing in the California League and known for their nut-themed branding.
- 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: Sacramento Gold Miners Target entity description: The Sacramento Gold Miners were a short-lived Canadian Football League team based in Sacramento, California, notable as one of the CFL’s early attempts to expand into the United States.
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A.
Reno Aces
The Reno Aces are a Minor League Baseball team based in Reno, Nevada, serving as the Triple-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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B.
Sacramento Solons
The Sacramento Solons were a historic minor league baseball team based in Sacramento, California, that competed for many years in the Pacific Coast League.
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C.
Sacramento River Cats
The Sacramento River Cats are a Minor League Baseball team based in West Sacramento, California, serving as a Triple-A affiliate and known for strong fan support and multiple league championships.
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D.
Leland Giants
The Leland Giants were a prominent early 20th-century African American baseball team from Chicago that became one of the powerhouse clubs of the pre–Negro Leagues era.
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E.
Modesto Nuts
The Modesto Nuts are a Minor League Baseball team based in Modesto, California, competing in the California League and known for their nut-themed branding.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian Football League team
ⓘ
defunct sports team ⓘ |
| basedIn | Sacramento, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| CFLDivision |
North Division
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
West Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| CFLTeamType | expansion team ⓘ |
| CFLUSExpansionTeam | true ⓘ |
| city | Sacramento, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | professional ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dissolved | 1994 ⓘ |
| expansionContext | CFL expansion into the United States in the 1990s ⓘ |
| founded | 1993 ⓘ |
| generalManager | Dan Bass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gridironCode | Canadian rules football ⓘ |
| headCoach | Kay Stephenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeCountryDuringCFLPlay | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeField | Hornet Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeProvinceOrState | California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeStadium | Hornet Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeUniversityCampus | California State University, Sacramento NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeVenueCapacityApprox | about 21,000 ⓘ |
| league | Canadian Football League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first CFL expansion teams in the United States
ⓘ
participation in CFL U.S. expansion era ⓘ |
| operatedInYears | 1993–1994 ⓘ |
| originFromFormerTeam | Sacramento Surge roster and organization ⓘ |
| owner | Fred Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedHomeGamesAt | Hornet Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInLeague |
CFL North Division
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
CFL West Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Sacramento Surge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessorLeague | World League of American Football NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Northern California ⓘ |
| relocatedAs | San Antonio Texans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seasonPlayed |
1993 CFL season
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
1994 CFL season ⓘ |
| shortLived | true ⓘ |
| sport | Canadian football ⓘ |
| successor | San Antonio Texans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamColors |
black
ⓘ
gold ⓘ white ⓘ |
| teamStatus | defunct ⓘ |
| uniformPrimaryColor | gold ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Sacramento Gold Miners Description of subject: The Sacramento Gold Miners were a short-lived Canadian Football League team based in Sacramento, California, notable as one of the CFL’s early attempts to expand into the United States.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.