United States men's national handball team
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The United States men's national handball team is the official senior team representing the U.S. in international men's handball competitions, including world championships and continental tournaments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| United States men's national handball team canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10935294 — 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: United States men's national handball team Context triple: [United States national teams, include, United States men's national handball team]
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A.
United States men’s national volleyball team
The United States men’s national volleyball team is the country’s top elite squad in international men’s volleyball, competing in major tournaments such as the Olympic Games, World Championships, and Volleyball Nations League.
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B.
Norway men's national handball team
The Norway men's national handball team is the country's top representative squad in international men's handball competitions, governed by the Norwegian Handball Federation.
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C.
United States men's national ice hockey team
The United States men's national ice hockey team is the senior national squad representing the U.S. in international ice hockey competitions such as the IIHF World Championships and the Olympic Games.
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D.
United States futsal team
The United States futsal team is the national indoor five-a-side soccer team that represents the U.S. in international futsal competitions such as the FIFA Futsal World Cup and CONCACAF championships.
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E.
United States men's national basketball team
The United States men's national basketball team is the dominant international squad representing the U.S. in global competitions like the Olympics and FIBA World Cup, historically featuring many of the greatest basketball players of all time.
- 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: United States men's national handball team Target entity description: The United States men's national handball team is the official senior team representing the U.S. in international men's handball competitions, including world championships and continental tournaments.
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A.
United States men’s national volleyball team
The United States men’s national volleyball team is the country’s top elite squad in international men’s volleyball, competing in major tournaments such as the Olympic Games, World Championships, and Volleyball Nations League.
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B.
Norway men's national handball team
The Norway men's national handball team is the country's top representative squad in international men's handball competitions, governed by the Norwegian Handball Federation.
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C.
United States men's national ice hockey team
The United States men's national ice hockey team is the senior national squad representing the U.S. in international ice hockey competitions such as the IIHF World Championships and the Olympic Games.
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D.
United States futsal team
The United States futsal team is the national indoor five-a-side soccer team that represents the U.S. in international futsal competitions such as the FIFA Futsal World Cup and CONCACAF championships.
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E.
United States men's national basketball team
The United States men's national basketball team is the dominant international squad representing the U.S. in global competitions like the Olympics and FIBA World Cup, historically featuring many of the greatest basketball players of all time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
men's national sports team
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national handball team ⓘ |
| ageLevel | senior ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Team USA handball (men)
NERFINISHED
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USA men's national handball team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestContinentalResult | 3rd place ⓘ |
| bestContinentalResultYear |
1983
ⓘ
1985 ⓘ 1991 ⓘ |
| bestOlympicResult | 9th place ⓘ |
| bestOlympicResultYear | 1984 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestWorldChampionshipResult | 15th place ⓘ |
| bestWorldChampionshipResultYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| competitionType | international ⓘ |
| confederation | North America and Caribbean Handball Confederation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continentalChampionship | Pan American Men's Handball Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continentalChampionshipAppearances | 15 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| firstOlympicAppearance | 1972 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstWorldChampionshipAppearance | 1964 ⓘ |
| formerConfederation | Pan-American Team Handball Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | men ⓘ |
| governingBody | USA Team Handball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBodyAffiliation | International Handball Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBodyHeadquartersCountry | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBodyType | national federation ⓘ |
| jerseyColorAway | white ⓘ |
| jerseyColorHome | blue ⓘ |
| olympicAppearances | 4 ⓘ |
| primaryCompetition |
IHF World Men's Handball Championship
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nor.Ca. Men's Handball Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ Pan American Games NERFINISHED ⓘ Pan American Men's Handball Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | North America ⓘ |
| represents | United States of America ⓘ |
| representsInCompetition |
World Men's Handball Championship
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
continental men's handball tournaments ⓘ |
| sport | handball ⓘ |
| sportCategory | indoor handball ⓘ |
| teamType | national representative team ⓘ |
| usesRulesOf | International Handball Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worldChampionshipAppearances | 6 ⓘ |
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: United States men's national handball team Description of subject: The United States men's national handball team is the official senior team representing the U.S. in international men's handball competitions, including world championships and continental tournaments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.