Leicester Tigers
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Leicester Tigers are a professional English rugby union club based in Leicester, renowned as one of the most successful and historically significant teams in domestic and European competitions.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Leicester Tigers canonical | 10 |
| Leicester Tigers (consultant) | 1 |
| Leicester Tigers Academy | 1 |
| Leicester Tigers Women | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2354688 — 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: Leicester Tigers Context triple: [Leicester, hasRugbyUnionClub, Leicester Tigers]
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A.
Leicester Panthers
Leicester Panthers are a British American football team best known for being one of the early playing stops in the career of NFL coach Sean Payton.
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B.
Gloucester Rugby
Gloucester Rugby is a professional English rugby union club based in Gloucester that competes in the Premiership and is known for its passionate fan base at Kingsholm Stadium.
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C.
Cheltenham Tigers RFC
Cheltenham Tigers RFC is an English rugby union club based in Cheltenham, known for its community-focused teams and participation in regional league competitions.
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D.
Swansea RFC
Swansea RFC is a historic Welsh rugby union club based in Swansea, known for competing at a high level in domestic competitions and producing numerous international players.
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E.
Newport RFC
Newport RFC is a historic Welsh rugby union club based in Newport, known for its long-standing presence and contributions to the sport in Wales.
- 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: Leicester Tigers Target entity description: Leicester Tigers are a professional English rugby union club based in Leicester, renowned as one of the most successful and historically significant teams in domestic and European competitions.
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A.
Leicester Panthers
Leicester Panthers are a British American football team best known for being one of the early playing stops in the career of NFL coach Sean Payton.
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B.
Gloucester Rugby
Gloucester Rugby is a professional English rugby union club based in Gloucester that competes in the Premiership and is known for its passionate fan base at Kingsholm Stadium.
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C.
Cheltenham Tigers RFC
Cheltenham Tigers RFC is an English rugby union club based in Cheltenham, known for its community-focused teams and participation in regional league competitions.
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D.
Swansea RFC
Swansea RFC is a historic Welsh rugby union club based in Swansea, known for competing at a high level in domestic competitions and producing numerous international players.
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E.
Newport RFC
Newport RFC is a historic Welsh rugby union club based in Newport, known for its long-standing presence and contributions to the sport in Wales.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
professional sports team
ⓘ
rugby union club ⓘ |
| academyFocus | youth player development ⓘ |
| basedIn | Leicester ⓘ |
| cityCounty | Leicestershire ⓘ |
| competesIn |
English Premiership
ⓘ
European Rugby Champions Cup ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| fanBase | large and dedicated support ⓘ |
| founded | 1880 ⓘ |
| fullName | Leicester Football Club ⓘ |
| gender | men's team ⓘ |
| governingBody | Rugby Football Union ⓘ |
| hasAcademy |
Leicester Tigers
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Leicester Tigers Academy
|
| hasProduced |
numerous British and Irish Lions players
ⓘ
numerous England international players ⓘ |
| hasWomenTeam |
Leicester Tigers
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Leicester Tigers Women
|
| homeCity | Leicester ⓘ |
| homeGround | Mattioli Woods Welford Road ⓘ |
| homeGroundCapacity | approximately 25,000 ⓘ |
| homeGroundFormerName | Welford Road ⓘ |
| homeGroundSurface | grass ⓘ |
| kitType | hooped shirts ⓘ |
| league | Premiership Rugby ⓘ |
| location |
Leicester
ⓘ
surface form:
Leicester, Leicestershire, England
|
| nationalAssociation | English rugby union ⓘ |
| nickname | Tigers ⓘ |
| notableColour |
green
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| notableEra | dominant in English club rugby in the late 1990s and early 2000s ⓘ |
| playsIn | top tier of English rugby union ⓘ |
| previousEuropeanCompetition | Heineken Cup ⓘ |
| professionalStatus | fully professional ⓘ |
| region | East Midlands ⓘ |
| reputation |
historically significant club in European rugby
ⓘ
one of England's most successful rugby union clubs ⓘ |
| shortName | Tigers ⓘ |
| sponsorNamingRights | Mattioli Woods ⓘ |
| sport | rugby union ⓘ |
| traditionalRival |
Bath Rugby
ⓘ
Northampton Saints ⓘ Wasps RFC ⓘ |
| type | professional rugby union club ⓘ |
| womenTeamSport | women's rugby union ⓘ |
| wonCompetition |
Anglo-Welsh Cup
ⓘ
English Premiership ⓘ European Rugby Challenge Cup ⓘ
surface form:
European Challenge Cup
Heineken Cup ⓘ |
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: Leicester Tigers Description of subject: Leicester Tigers are a professional English rugby union club based in Leicester, renowned as one of the most successful and historically significant teams in domestic and European competitions.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Leicester Tigers (consultant)
subject surface form:
Clive Woodward
subject surface form:
CA Brive
this entity surface form:
Leicester Tigers Academy
this entity surface form:
Leicester Tigers Women