Tokyo Yakult Swallows

E113739

Nippon Professional Baseball team professional baseball team

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows are a professional Japanese baseball team based in Tokyo that competes in Nippon Professional Baseball.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Tokyo Yakult Swallows canonical	10
Yakult Swallows	9
Kokutetsu Swallows	1
東京ヤクルトスワローズ	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T920051 — 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: Tokyo Yakult Swallows
Context triple: [Central League, hasTeam, Tokyo Yakult Swallows]

A. Yokohama DeNA BayStars
The Yokohama DeNA BayStars are a professional Japanese baseball team in Nippon Professional Baseball’s Central League, based in Yokohama and owned by DeNA.
B. Hiroshima Toyo Carp
Hiroshima Toyo Carp is a professional Japanese baseball team based in Hiroshima that competes in Nippon Professional Baseball.
C. Chunichi Dragons
The Chunichi Dragons are a professional Japanese baseball team based in Nagoya that competes in Nippon Professional Baseball.
D. Yomiuri Giants
The Yomiuri Giants are a Tokyo-based professional baseball team in Nippon Professional Baseball, widely regarded as Japan’s most historically successful and popular club.
E. Hanshin Tigers
The Hanshin Tigers are a historic and popular professional baseball team in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league, known for their passionate fanbase and long-standing rivalry with the Yomiuri Giants.
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: Tokyo Yakult Swallows
Target entity description: The Tokyo Yakult Swallows are a professional Japanese baseball team based in Tokyo that competes in Nippon Professional Baseball.

A. Yokohama DeNA BayStars
The Yokohama DeNA BayStars are a professional Japanese baseball team in Nippon Professional Baseball’s Central League, based in Yokohama and owned by DeNA.
B. Hiroshima Toyo Carp
Hiroshima Toyo Carp is a professional Japanese baseball team based in Hiroshima that competes in Nippon Professional Baseball.
C. Chunichi Dragons
The Chunichi Dragons are a professional Japanese baseball team based in Nagoya that competes in Nippon Professional Baseball.
D. Yomiuri Giants
The Yomiuri Giants are a Tokyo-based professional baseball team in Nippon Professional Baseball, widely regarded as Japan’s most historically successful and popular club.
E. Hanshin Tigers
The Hanshin Tigers are a historic and popular professional baseball team in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league, known for their passionate fanbase and long-standing rivalry with the Yomiuri Giants.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nippon Professional Baseball team ⓘ professional baseball team ⓘ
abbreviation	TYS ⓘ YS ⓘ
basedIn	Meiji Jingu Gaien area ⓘ
centralLeagueTitle	1978 ⓘ 1992 ⓘ 1993 ⓘ 1995 ⓘ 1997 ⓘ 2001 ⓘ 2015 ⓘ 2021 ⓘ 2022 ⓘ
championship	Japan Series champion 1978 ⓘ Japan Series champion 1993 ⓘ Japan Series champion 1995 ⓘ Japan Series champion 1997 ⓘ Japan Series champion 2001 ⓘ Japan Series champion 2021 ⓘ
city	Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan ⓘ surface form: Shinjuku, Tokyo
country	Japan ⓘ
formerName	Tokyo Yakult Swallows self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Kokutetsu Swallows Sankei Atoms ⓘ Yakult Atoms ⓘ Tokyo Yakult Swallows self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Yakult Swallows
founded	1950 ⓘ
hasFanTradition	umbrella dance cheering ⓘ
homeFieldOpened	Meiji Jingu Stadium 1926 ⓘ
homeStadium	Meiji Jingu Stadium ⓘ
league	Nippon Professional Baseball ⓘ
location	Tokyo ⓘ
mascot	Tsubakuro ⓘ Tsubami ⓘ
notablePlayer	Akinori Iwamura ⓘ Kazuhiro Hatakeyama ⓘ Norichika Aoki ⓘ Shingo Takatsu ⓘ Tetsuya Iida ⓘ
owner	Yakult Honsha ⓘ
rival	Hanshin Tigers ⓘ Yomiuri Giants ⓘ
sponsor	Yakult Honsha ⓘ
sport	baseball ⓘ
subleague	Central League ⓘ
teamColors	green ⓘ navy blue ⓘ white ⓘ
uniformNumberRetired	1 ⓘ 3 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited