2008 MLS Cup
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The 2008 MLS Cup was the Major League Soccer championship match that concluded the 2008 season and crowned the league’s top club in North America’s premier professional soccer league.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 2008 MLS Cup canonical | 3 |
| MLS Cup 2008 | 2 |
| 2008 Major League Soccer season | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T222327 — 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: 2008 MLS Cup Context triple: [Philip F. Anschutz Trophy, firstAwardedIn, 2008 MLS Cup]
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A.
MLS Cup 2007
MLS Cup 2007 was the Major League Soccer championship match for the 2007 season, contested between the Houston Dynamo and the New England Revolution.
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B.
MLS Cup 2006
MLS Cup 2006 was the Major League Soccer championship match for the 2006 season, contested between the New England Revolution and the Houston Dynamo.
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C.
MLS Cup 2005
MLS Cup 2005 was the Major League Soccer championship match for the 2005 season, contested between the New England Revolution and the Los Angeles Galaxy.
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D.
MLS Cup 2004
MLS Cup 2004 was the ninth championship match of Major League Soccer, determining the league’s 2004 season champion.
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E.
MLS Cup 2002
MLS Cup 2002 was the Major League Soccer championship match for the 2002 season, contested between the Los Angeles Galaxy and the New England Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: 2008 MLS Cup Target entity description: The 2008 MLS Cup was the Major League Soccer championship match that concluded the 2008 season and crowned the league’s top club in North America’s premier professional soccer league.
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A.
MLS Cup 2007
MLS Cup 2007 was the Major League Soccer championship match for the 2007 season, contested between the Houston Dynamo and the New England Revolution.
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B.
MLS Cup 2006
MLS Cup 2006 was the Major League Soccer championship match for the 2006 season, contested between the New England Revolution and the Houston Dynamo.
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C.
MLS Cup 2005
MLS Cup 2005 was the Major League Soccer championship match for the 2005 season, contested between the New England Revolution and the Los Angeles Galaxy.
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D.
MLS Cup 2004
MLS Cup 2004 was the ninth championship match of Major League Soccer, determining the league’s 2004 season champion.
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E.
MLS Cup 2002
MLS Cup 2002 was the Major League Soccer championship match for the 2002 season, contested between the Los Angeles Galaxy and the New England Revolution.
- 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: 2008 MLS Cup Description of subject: The 2008 MLS Cup was the Major League Soccer championship match that concluded the 2008 season and crowned the league’s top club in North America’s premier professional soccer league.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
MLS Cup 2008
this entity surface form:
2008 Major League Soccer season
this entity surface form:
MLS Cup 2008