National Premier Soccer League
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The National Premier Soccer League is a nationwide amateur and semi-professional men's soccer league in the United States that operates in the fourth tier of the American soccer pyramid.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| National Premier Soccer League canonical | 8 |
| NPSL | 2 |
| NPSL National Championship | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T102722 — 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: National Premier Soccer League Context triple: [U.S. Open Cup, includesClubsFrom, National Premier Soccer League]
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A.
Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer is the top-tier professional men's soccer league in the United States and Canada.
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B.
USL Championship
The USL Championship is a professional men's soccer league in the United States that operates as a second-division competition beneath Major League Soccer.
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C.
USL Premier Development League
The USL Premier Development League was a North American amateur soccer league primarily featuring college-aged players and serving as a key developmental platform within the United Soccer Leagues system.
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D.
National Independent Soccer Association
The National Independent Soccer Association is a U.S.-based professional third-division soccer league featuring independent clubs outside Major League Soccer and the USL system.
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E.
USL League One
USL League One is a professional third-division soccer league in the United States that operates under the United Soccer League and features clubs competing in the American soccer pyramid.
- 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: National Premier Soccer League Target entity description: The National Premier Soccer League is a nationwide amateur and semi-professional men's soccer league in the United States that operates in the fourth tier of the American soccer pyramid.
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A.
Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer is the top-tier professional men's soccer league in the United States and Canada.
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B.
USL Championship
The USL Championship is a professional men's soccer league in the United States that operates as a second-division competition beneath Major League Soccer.
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C.
USL Premier Development League
The USL Premier Development League was a North American amateur soccer league primarily featuring college-aged players and serving as a key developmental platform within the United Soccer Leagues system.
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D.
National Independent Soccer Association
The National Independent Soccer Association is a U.S.-based professional third-division soccer league featuring independent clubs outside Major League Soccer and the USL system.
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E.
USL League One
USL League One is a professional third-division soccer league in the United States that operates under the United Soccer League and features clubs competing in the American soccer pyramid.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
amateur soccer league
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semi-professional soccer league ⓘ soccer league ⓘ sports organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
National Premier Soccer League
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
NPSL
|
| ageCategory | senior ⓘ |
| allowsParticipationFrom |
community-based clubs
ⓘ
independent clubs ⓘ |
| competitionLevel |
amateur
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semi-professional ⓘ |
| competitionType | league competition ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| focus |
development of clubs
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development of players ⓘ |
| gender | men ⓘ |
| governingBody | United States Adult Soccer Association ⓘ |
| governingCategory | adult soccer ⓘ |
| hasDivision | regional conferences ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
national playoffs
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open to amateur and semi-professional teams ⓘ regionalized competition structure ⓘ |
| hasLevelAbove |
MLS Next Pro
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Major League Soccer ⓘ USL Championship ⓘ USL League One ⓘ |
| hasMemberType | club ⓘ |
| hasPromotionTo | none (no automatic promotion in U.S. soccer pyramid) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| organizes |
playoff competition
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regular season matches ⓘ |
| partOf |
American soccer pyramid
ⓘ
surface form:
United States soccer league system
|
| playerStatus |
non-professional
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semi-professional ⓘ |
| playsUnderRulesOf |
Laws of the Game of association football
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surface form:
FIFA Laws of the Game
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| pyramidPosition | level 4 ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | United States Soccer Federation ⓘ |
| regionServed |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| scope | nationwide ⓘ |
| seasonFormat | summer-based schedule ⓘ |
| sport |
association football
ⓘ
soccer ⓘ |
| tierInPyramid | fourth tier of the American soccer pyramid ⓘ |
| typeOfLeague | men's league ⓘ |
| website | https://www.npsl.com/ ⓘ |
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: National Premier Soccer League Description of subject: The National Premier Soccer League is a nationwide amateur and semi-professional men's soccer league in the United States that operates in the fourth tier of the American soccer pyramid.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
National Premier Soccer League
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abbreviation
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National Premier Soccer League
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
NPSL
this entity surface form:
NPSL National Championship
this entity surface form:
NPSL