Memphis Mad Dogs
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The Memphis Mad Dogs were a short-lived Canadian Football League expansion team based in Memphis, Tennessee, that played only in the 1995 season during the league’s brief U.S. expansion.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Memphis Mad Dogs canonical | 9 |
| Memphis Mad Dogs organization | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2571832 — 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: Memphis Mad Dogs Context triple: [East Division, formerTeam, Memphis Mad Dogs]
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Baltimore Stallions
The Baltimore Stallions were a mid-1990s Canadian Football League team based in Baltimore, Maryland, notable as the only American-based franchise to win the Grey Cup.
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Arlington Renegades
The Arlington Renegades are a professional American football team that competes in the XFL and is based in Arlington, Texas.
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Jacksonville Sharks
The Jacksonville Sharks were a short-lived professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida, that competed in the World Football League during the mid-1970s.
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New Orleans Eagles
The New Orleans Eagles were a professional Negro league baseball team based in New Orleans that competed in the Negro American League during the era of segregated baseball in the United States.
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E.
Pittsburgh Ironmen
The Pittsburgh Ironmen were a short-lived professional basketball team that competed in the Basketball Association of America, a precursor to the modern NBA, during the league’s inaugural season.
- 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: Memphis Mad Dogs Target entity description: The Memphis Mad Dogs were a short-lived Canadian Football League expansion team based in Memphis, Tennessee, that played only in the 1995 season during the league’s brief U.S. expansion.
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A.
Baltimore Stallions
The Baltimore Stallions were a mid-1990s Canadian Football League team based in Baltimore, Maryland, notable as the only American-based franchise to win the Grey Cup.
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B.
Arlington Renegades
The Arlington Renegades are a professional American football team that competes in the XFL and is based in Arlington, Texas.
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C.
Jacksonville Sharks
The Jacksonville Sharks were a short-lived professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida, that competed in the World Football League during the mid-1970s.
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D.
New Orleans Eagles
The New Orleans Eagles were a professional Negro league baseball team based in New Orleans that competed in the Negro American League during the era of segregated baseball in the United States.
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E.
Pittsburgh Ironmen
The Pittsburgh Ironmen were a short-lived professional basketball team that competed in the Basketball Association of America, a precursor to the modern NBA, during the league’s inaugural season.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Memphis Mad Dogs Description of subject: The Memphis Mad Dogs were a short-lived Canadian Football League expansion team based in Memphis, Tennessee, that played only in the 1995 season during the league’s brief U.S. expansion.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Memphis Mad Dogs