Shreveport Pirates
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The Shreveport Pirates were a short-lived Canadian Football League team based in Shreveport, Louisiana, that played in the mid-1990s during the league’s U.S. expansion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shreveport Pirates canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2571830 — 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: Shreveport Pirates Context triple: [East Division, formerTeam, Shreveport Pirates]
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A.
Memphis Redbirds
The Memphis Redbirds are a Minor League Baseball team and Triple-A affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals based in Memphis, Tennessee.
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B.
St. Louis Bombers
The St. Louis Bombers were a professional basketball team based in St. Louis, Missouri, that played in the late 1940s and early 1950s and were part of the early history of what became the NBA.
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C.
St. Louis Stars
The St. Louis Stars were a prominent early 20th-century Negro league baseball team known for their strong rosters and competitive success before the integration of Major League Baseball.
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D.
Rocket City Trash Pandas
The Rocket City Trash Pandas are a Minor League Baseball team based in the Huntsville metropolitan area, known for their distinctive raccoon-themed branding and affiliation with the Los Angeles Angels.
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E.
Pensacola Blue Wahoos
The Pensacola Blue Wahoos are a Minor League Baseball team based in Pensacola, Florida, serving as a Double-A affiliate in professional baseball.
- 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: Shreveport Pirates Target entity description: The Shreveport Pirates were a short-lived Canadian Football League team based in Shreveport, Louisiana, that played in the mid-1990s during the league’s U.S. expansion.
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A.
Huntsville Stars
The Huntsville Stars were a Minor League Baseball team based in Huntsville, Alabama, that served as a Double-A affiliate for several Major League clubs before relocating and rebranding.
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B.
Memphis Redbirds
The Memphis Redbirds are a Minor League Baseball team and Triple-A affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals based in Memphis, Tennessee.
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C.
St. Louis Bombers
The St. Louis Bombers were a professional basketball team based in St. Louis, Missouri, that played in the late 1940s and early 1950s and were part of the early history of what became the NBA.
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D.
St. Louis Stars
The St. Louis Stars were a prominent early 20th-century Negro league baseball team known for their strong rosters and competitive success before the integration of Major League Baseball.
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E.
Rocket City Trash Pandas
The Rocket City Trash Pandas are a Minor League Baseball team based in the Huntsville metropolitan area, known for their distinctive raccoon-themed branding and affiliation with the Los Angeles Angels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian Football League team
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defunct American football team ⓘ |
| activeSeasons |
1994
GENERATED
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1995 GENERATED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Shreveport metropolitan area GENERATED ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | professional GENERATED ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| dissolved | 1995 GENERATED ⓘ |
| division | CFL South GENERATED ⓘ |
| governingBody | Canadian Football League GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasRival |
Baltimore Stallions
GENERATED
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Birmingham Barracudas GENERATED ⓘ Memphis Mad Dogs GENERATED ⓘ San Antonio Texans GENERATED ⓘ |
| headCoach |
Forrest Gregg
GENERATED
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John Huard GENERATED ⓘ |
| homeCity | Shreveport GENERATED ⓘ |
| homeField | Independence Stadium, Shreveport GENERATED ⓘ |
| homeProvinceOrState | Louisiana GENERATED ⓘ |
| homeStadium | Independence Stadium GENERATED ⓘ |
| inception | 1994 GENERATED ⓘ |
| league | Canadian Football League GENERATED ⓘ |
| location | Shreveport, Louisiana GENERATED ⓘ |
| mascotTheme | pirate GENERATED ⓘ |
| notableQuarterback |
Billy Joe Tolliver
GENERATED
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David Archer GENERATED ⓘ |
| owner |
Bernie Glieberman
GENERATED
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Lonie Glieberman GENERATED ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
1994 CFL season
GENERATED
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1995 CFL season GENERATED ⓘ |
| partOf | CFL U.S. expansion GENERATED ⓘ |
| playedIn | CFL South Division GENERATED ⓘ |
| reasonForDissolution | end of CFL U.S. expansion GENERATED ⓘ |
| shortDescription | short-lived CFL expansion team in Shreveport, Louisiana GENERATED ⓘ |
| sport | Canadian football GENERATED ⓘ |
| status | defunct GENERATED ⓘ |
| teamColors |
black
GENERATED
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silver GENERATED ⓘ teal GENERATED ⓘ white GENERATED ⓘ |
| teamType | gridiron football team GENERATED ⓘ |
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: Shreveport Pirates Description of subject: The Shreveport Pirates were a short-lived Canadian Football League team based in Shreveport, Louisiana, that played in the mid-1990s during the league’s U.S. expansion.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.