New York Excelsior
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New York Excelsior is a professional esports team based in New York City that competes in Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch League.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New York Excelsior canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11225712 — 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: New York Excelsior Context triple: [Overwatch League, hasTeam, New York Excelsior]
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A.
New York Skyliners
The New York Skyliners were a short-lived professional American football team that played home games at Shea Stadium in New York City during the 1960s.
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B.
New Jersey Wildcats
The New Jersey Wildcats are a former American women’s soccer club that competed in the USL W-League and helped develop several future U.S. national team players.
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C.
New York Five
The New York Five were a group of influential late-20th-century architects known for their rigorously geometric, white, modernist-inspired designs that helped shape early postmodern architectural discourse in the United States.
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D.
Bay Bulls
Bay Bulls is a small coastal town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, known for its historic fishing heritage and whale- and bird-watching tourism.
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E.
Maine Celtics
The Maine Celtics are the NBA G League developmental team for the Boston Celtics, based in Portland, Maine.
- 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: New York Excelsior Target entity description: New York Excelsior is a professional esports team based in New York City that competes in Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch League.
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A.
New York Skyliners
The New York Skyliners were a short-lived professional American football team that played home games at Shea Stadium in New York City during the 1960s.
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B.
New Jersey Wildcats
The New Jersey Wildcats are a former American women’s soccer club that competed in the USL W-League and helped develop several future U.S. national team players.
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C.
New York Five
The New York Five were a group of influential late-20th-century architects known for their rigorously geometric, white, modernist-inspired designs that helped shape early postmodern architectural discourse in the United States.
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D.
Bay Bulls
Bay Bulls is a small coastal town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, known for its historic fishing heritage and whale- and bird-watching tourism.
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E.
Maine Celtics
The Maine Celtics are the NBA G League developmental team for the Boston Celtics, based in Portland, Maine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Overwatch League team
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esports team ⓘ professional sports team ⓘ |
| academyTeamGame | Overwatch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| academyTeamRegion | North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| announced | 2017 ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| colors |
black
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blue ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| competesIn |
Overwatch League playoffs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Overwatch League regular season NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| foundedBy | Sterling.VC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchiseSlotCost | 20000000 USD ⓘ |
| franchiseSystem | city-based ⓘ |
| game | Overwatch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAcademyTeam | XL2 Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNickname | NYXL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficialAbbreviation | NYXL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.nyxl.com/ ⓘ |
| hasRival |
Boston Uprising
NERFINISHED
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London Spitfire NERFINISHED ⓘ Philadelphia Fusion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRosterSizeLimit | 12 ⓘ |
| homeCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| homeMarket | New York metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeVenue | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| joinedLeagueIn | 2018 ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| league | Overwatch League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSeason | Overwatch League 2018 season NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Sterling.VC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Sterling Equities NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatesIn | Overwatch League homestand events NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryGameMode | team-based shooter ⓘ |
| publisherOfGame | Blizzard Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Atlantic Division
NERFINISHED
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East Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regularSeasonRecord2018 | 34–6 ⓘ |
| representsCity | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortName | NYXL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | esports ⓘ |
| stageTitles |
Overwatch League Stage 2 2018
NERFINISHED
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Overwatch League Stage 3 2018 NERFINISHED ⓘ Overwatch League Stage 4 2018 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: New York Excelsior Description of subject: New York Excelsior is a professional esports team based in New York City that competes in Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch League.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.