San Jose Lasers
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San Jose Lasers were a professional women's basketball team based in San Jose, California that competed in the short-lived American Basketball League in the late 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| San Jose Lasers canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10701415 — 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: San Jose Lasers Context triple: [American Basketball League, team, San Jose Lasers]
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A.
Los Angeles Lazers
The Los Angeles Lazers were a professional indoor soccer team that competed in the Major Indoor Soccer League during the 1980s.
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B.
Los Angeles Aztecs
The Los Angeles Aztecs were a professional soccer club that competed in the North American Soccer League during the 1970s and early 1980s, known for featuring international stars such as George Best.
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C.
San Jose CyberRays
The San Jose CyberRays were a professional women's soccer team based in San Jose, California, that competed in the early 2000s in the United States' first women's professional league.
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D.
Los Angeles Cobras
The Los Angeles Cobras were a short-lived professional arena football team that competed in the Arena Football League during the late 1980s.
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E.
Los Angeles Stars
The Los Angeles Stars were a professional basketball team that competed in the original American Basketball Association (ABA) during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- 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: San Jose Lasers Target entity description: San Jose Lasers were a professional women's basketball team based in San Jose, California that competed in the short-lived American Basketball League in the late 1990s.
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A.
Los Angeles Lazers
The Los Angeles Lazers were a professional indoor soccer team that competed in the Major Indoor Soccer League during the 1980s.
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B.
Los Angeles Aztecs
The Los Angeles Aztecs were a professional soccer club that competed in the North American Soccer League during the 1970s and early 1980s, known for featuring international stars such as George Best.
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C.
San Jose CyberRays
The San Jose CyberRays were a professional women's soccer team based in San Jose, California, that competed in the early 2000s in the United States' first women's professional league.
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D.
Los Angeles Cobras
The Los Angeles Cobras were a short-lived professional arena football team that competed in the Arena Football League during the late 1980s.
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E.
Los Angeles Stars
The Los Angeles Stars were a professional basketball team that competed in the original American Basketball Association (ABA) during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct basketball team
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professional women's basketball team ⓘ |
| associatedWith | women's professional basketball in the United States ⓘ |
| basedIn | San Jose, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | professional ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| gender | women's ⓘ |
| homeCity | San Jose NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| homeState | California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isFromCity | San Jose, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league | American Basketball League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leagueStatus | short-lived ⓘ |
| location | San Jose, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedInDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| partOf | American Basketball League franchises ⓘ |
| playedIn | American Basketball League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInCompetition | American Basketball League (1996–1998) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedIndoorSport | basketball ⓘ |
| playedInEra | late 1990s ⓘ |
| professionalStatus | professional team ⓘ |
| region | Bay Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortName | Lasers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| status | defunct ⓘ |
| teamGenderCategory | women ⓘ |
| teamType | club team ⓘ |
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: San Jose Lasers Description of subject: San Jose Lasers were a professional women's basketball team based in San Jose, California that competed in the short-lived American Basketball League in the late 1990s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jennifer Azzi