National League Championship Series
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The National League Championship Series is Major League Baseball’s best-of-seven playoff series that determines the National League champion and one of the two teams that advance to the World Series.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| National League Championship Series canonical | 24 |
| League Championship Series | 2 |
| NLCS | 1 |
| National League champion | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T222178 — 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 League Championship Series Context triple: [American League Championship Series, isParallelTo, National League Championship Series]
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American League Championship Series
The American League Championship Series is Major League Baseball’s best-of-seven playoff round that determines the American League pennant winner and World Series participant.
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MLB playoffs
The MLB playoffs are the postseason elimination tournament in Major League Baseball that determines the league’s annual World Series champion.
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World Series
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball in North America, determining the league's overall champion.
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American League Division Series
The American League Division Series is a Major League Baseball postseason round that determines which American League teams advance toward the league championship and ultimately the World Series.
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National League
The National League is one of the two major professional baseball leagues in the United States and Canada, forming half of Major League 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: National League Championship Series Target entity description: The National League Championship Series is Major League Baseball’s best-of-seven playoff series that determines the National League champion and one of the two teams that advance to the World Series.
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A.
American League Championship Series
The American League Championship Series is Major League Baseball’s best-of-seven playoff round that determines the American League pennant winner and World Series participant.
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B.
MLB playoffs
The MLB playoffs are the postseason elimination tournament in Major League Baseball that determines the league’s annual World Series champion.
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C.
World Series
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball in North America, determining the league's overall champion.
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D.
American League Division Series
The American League Division Series is a Major League Baseball postseason round that determines which American League teams advance toward the league championship and ultimately the World Series.
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E.
National League
The National League is one of the two major professional baseball leagues in the United States and Canada, forming half of Major League Baseball.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 League Championship Series Description of subject: The National League Championship Series is Major League Baseball’s best-of-seven playoff series that determines the National League champion and one of the two teams that advance to the World Series.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
NLCS
this entity surface form:
National League champion
Philadelphia Phillies–Atlanta Braves rivalry
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hasPostseasonMeetings
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National League Championship Series
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subject surface form:
National League
National League Championship Series MVP Award
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associatedWithEvent
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National League Championship Series
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subject surface form:
1996 National League season
this entity surface form:
League Championship Series
this entity surface form:
League Championship Series