Lions
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The Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan, competing in the National Football League (NFL).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lions canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13503367 — 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: Lions Context triple: [1957 NFL Championship Game, homeTeamNickname, Lions]
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Lions
The Lions are the athletic teams representing Texas A&M University–Commerce in collegiate sports.
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Lions
Lions are large, social predatory cats native mainly to Africa, known for their muscular build, manes on males, and role as iconic symbols of strength and courage.
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Lions
The Lions are the athletic teams representing Lindenwood University in collegiate sports competitions.
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Lions
The Lions are a composite rugby union team selected from players of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland that tours the Southern Hemisphere’s top national sides.
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E.
Lions
The Lions are the athletic teams representing Emerson College in intercollegiate sports.
- 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: Lions Target entity description: The Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan, competing in the National Football League (NFL).
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Lions
The Lions are a South African professional rugby union team based in Johannesburg that competes in major domestic and international competitions.
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Lions
Lions is the commonly used short name for the Brisbane Lions, a professional Australian rules football club based in Brisbane that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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Lions
Lions is a professional ice hockey team based in Frankfurt, Germany, competing in the country’s top leagues under the name Frankfurt Lions.
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Lions
The Lions are the athletic teams representing Emerson College in intercollegiate sports.
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Lions
The Lions are the athletic teams representing Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in intercollegiate sports.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NFL team
ⓘ
professional American football team ⓘ |
| conference | NFC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| division | NFC North NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| divisionRival |
Chicago Bears
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Green Bay Packers NERFINISHED ⓘ Minnesota Vikings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| divisionTitle |
NFC Central era titles
ⓘ
NFC North titles ⓘ |
| formerLocation | Portsmouth, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Portsmouth Spartans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| generalManager | Brad Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headCoach | Dan Campbell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeCity | Detroit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeFieldOpened | Ford Field 2002 ⓘ |
| homeRegion | Midwestern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeStadium | Ford Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| location | Detroit, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mascot | Roary the Lion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFormerPlayer |
Alex Karras
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Barry Sanders NERFINISHED ⓘ Bobby Layne NERFINISHED ⓘ Calvin Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ Doak Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Sheila Ford Hamp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsIn |
NFC Conference
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NFC North Division NERFINISHED ⓘ National Football League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| president | Rod Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousHomeStadium |
Pontiac Silverdome
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tiger Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relocatedTo | Detroit, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relocationYear | 1934 ⓘ |
| retiredNumber |
20
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22 ⓘ 37 ⓘ 56 ⓘ 85 ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan (most of state)
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan
|
| SuperBowlAppearances | 0 before 2024 season ⓘ |
| teamColors |
Honolulu blue
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
black ⓘ silver ⓘ white ⓘ |
| ThanksgivingDayGameTradition | hosts annual home game on Thanksgiving ⓘ |
| wonNFLChampionship |
1935
ⓘ
1952 ⓘ 1953 ⓘ 1957 ⓘ |
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: Lions Description of subject: The Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan, competing in the National Football League (NFL).
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.