2017 NWSL Shield
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The 2017 NWSL Shield was the National Women's Soccer League's regular-season title awarded to the team with the best record during the 2017 season.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 2017 NWSL Shield canonical | 2 |
| NWSL Shield 2017 | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T645364 — 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)
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Target entity: 2017 NWSL Shield Context triple: [2016 NWSL Shield, followedBy, 2017 NWSL Shield]
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A.
2021 NWSL Shield
The 2021 NWSL Shield is the National Women's Soccer League's regular-season trophy awarded to the team with the best overall record that year.
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B.
2017 NWSL Championship
The 2017 NWSL Championship was the National Women's Soccer League's title match for the 2017 season, in which the Portland Thorns FC won the league championship.
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C.
2016 NWSL Shield
The 2016 NWSL Shield is the National Women's Soccer League's regular-season championship trophy awarded to the team with the best record that year.
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D.
NWSL Shield
The NWSL Shield is the annual trophy awarded to the National Women's Soccer League team that finishes the regular season with the best overall record.
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E.
2017 NWSL season
The 2017 NWSL season was the fifth campaign of the National Women's Soccer League, featuring top-tier professional women's soccer clubs in the United States competing for the league title and culminating in the 2017 NWSL Championship.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: 2017 NWSL Shield Target entity description: The 2017 NWSL Shield was the National Women's Soccer League's regular-season title awarded to the team with the best record during the 2017 season.
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A.
2021 NWSL Shield
The 2021 NWSL Shield is the National Women's Soccer League's regular-season trophy awarded to the team with the best overall record that year.
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B.
2017 NWSL Championship
The 2017 NWSL Championship was the National Women's Soccer League's title match for the 2017 season, in which the Portland Thorns FC won the league championship.
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C.
2016 NWSL Shield
The 2016 NWSL Shield is the National Women's Soccer League's regular-season championship trophy awarded to the team with the best record that year.
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D.
NWSL Shield
The NWSL Shield is the annual trophy awarded to the National Women's Soccer League team that finishes the regular season with the best overall record.
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E.
2017 NWSL season
The 2017 NWSL season was the fifth campaign of the National Women's Soccer League, featuring top-tier professional women's soccer clubs in the United States competing for the league title and culminating in the 2017 NWSL Championship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NWSL Shield
ⓘ
football award ⓘ sports trophy ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
NWSL Championship
ⓘ
NWSL playoffs ⓘ |
| awardedFor | best regular-season record in the 2017 NWSL season ⓘ |
| awardingBody | National Women's Soccer League ⓘ |
| basedOn | points accumulated in regular-season standings ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | top-division women's professional soccer in the United States ⓘ |
| confers | top seed in the 2017 NWSL playoffs ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| followedBy | 2018 NWSL Shield ⓘ |
| format | double round-robin regular season ⓘ |
| genderCategory | women ⓘ |
| inceptionSeasonOfWinner | first NWSL season for North Carolina Courage ⓘ |
| league | National Women's Soccer League ⓘ |
| precededBy | 2016 NWSL Shield ⓘ |
| region | North America ⓘ |
| season | 2017 NWSL season ⓘ |
| sport | soccer ⓘ |
| teamCountInLeague | 10 ⓘ |
| tieBreakerCriteria |
goal difference
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goals scored ⓘ head-to-head record ⓘ |
| tournamentPhase | regular season ⓘ |
| winner | North Carolina Courage ⓘ |
| winnerCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| winnerFullName |
North Carolina Courage
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surface form:
North Carolina Courage (NWSL club)
|
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: 2017 NWSL Shield Description of subject: The 2017 NWSL Shield was the National Women's Soccer League's regular-season title awarded to the team with the best record during the 2017 season.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
NWSL Shield 2017
this entity surface form:
NWSL Shield 2017