Chieftains
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The Chieftains was the former athletic team nickname for Stonehill College, used to represent the school's sports programs before it was changed.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Chieftains canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10550361 — 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: Chieftains Context triple: [Stonehill College, formerNickname, Chieftains]
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A.
Green Mountain Boys
The Green Mountain Boys were a militia organization from the New Hampshire Grants (later Vermont) known for their role in the American Revolutionary War, including the capture of Fort Ticonderoga and other key actions against British forces.
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B.
The Bandits
"The Bandits" is a lesser-known ballet composed by Ludwig Minkus, reflecting his characteristic 19th-century Romantic style for the stage.
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C.
Newbattle
Newbattle is a village in Midlothian, Scotland, historically centered around the former Cistercian monastery Newbattle Abbey.
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D.
Tallant
Tallant is a character in the play "The Late Christopher Bean," typically portrayed as an art expert whose arrival helps reveal the true value and significance of the late painter’s work.
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E.
The Fifers
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- 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: Chieftains Target entity description: The Chieftains was the former athletic team nickname for Stonehill College, used to represent the school's sports programs before it was changed.
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A.
Green Mountain Boys
The Green Mountain Boys were a militia organization from the New Hampshire Grants (later Vermont) known for their role in the American Revolutionary War, including the capture of Fort Ticonderoga and other key actions against British forces.
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B.
The Bandits
"The Bandits" is a lesser-known ballet composed by Ludwig Minkus, reflecting his characteristic 19th-century Romantic style for the stage.
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C.
Newbattle
Newbattle is a village in Midlothian, Scotland, historically centered around the former Cistercian monastery Newbattle Abbey.
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D.
Tallant
Tallant is a character in the play "The Late Christopher Bean," typically portrayed as an art expert whose arrival helps reveal the true value and significance of the late painter’s work.
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E.
The Fifers
The Fifers is the traditional nickname of Scottish football club East Fife F.C., reflecting its roots in the Fife region of Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | college athletic team nickname ⓘ |
| affiliation | NCAA member institution Stonehill College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedBy | a different Stonehill College athletic nickname ⓘ |
| represents |
Stonehill College athletic teams
ⓘ
Stonehill College sports programs ⓘ |
| status | former nickname ⓘ |
| usedBy | Stonehill College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Stonehill College men’s sports teams
ⓘ
Stonehill College women’s sports teams ⓘ |
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: Chieftains Description of subject: The Chieftains was the former athletic team nickname for Stonehill College, used to represent the school's sports programs before it was changed.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.