Black Yankees
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The Black Yankees were a professional Negro league baseball team based in New York City that played primarily in the Negro National League during the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Black Yankees canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19605434 — 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: Black Yankees Context triple: [New York Black Yankees, alsoKnownAs, Black Yankees]
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A.
Yankee
Yankee is a nickname commonly associated with people from the United States, especially those from the northern states, and is also used as a moniker in various military and sports contexts.
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B.
Yankee Brigade
The Yankee Brigade is a nickname for the 26th Yankee Brigade, a National Guard military unit with historical roots in New England.
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C.
The Yanks
The Yanks is a common nickname for the United States men's national soccer team, reflecting its American identity and heritage.
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D.
Yanks
Yanks is a 1979 British romantic war drama film set in World War II England that explores relationships between American soldiers and local women.
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E.
The New York Five
The New York Five were a group of influential late-20th-century American architects known for their rigorously geometric, white modernist designs and theoretical impact on postwar architecture.
- 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: Black Yankees Target entity description: The Black Yankees were a professional Negro league baseball team based in New York City that played primarily in the Negro National League during the mid-20th century.
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A.
Yankee
Yankee is a nickname commonly associated with people from the United States, especially those from the northern states, and is also used as a moniker in various military and sports contexts.
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B.
Yankee Brigade
The Yankee Brigade is a nickname for the 26th Yankee Brigade, a National Guard military unit with historical roots in New England.
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C.
The Yanks
The Yanks is a common nickname for the United States men's national soccer team, reflecting its American identity and heritage.
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D.
Yanks
Yanks is a 1979 British romantic war drama film set in World War II England that explores relationships between American soldiers and local women.
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E.
The New York Five
The New York Five were a group of influential late-20th-century American architects known for their rigorously geometric, white modernist designs and theoretical impact on postwar architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.