International Baseball Federation
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The International Baseball Federation was the former worldwide governing body responsible for overseeing and promoting the sport of baseball before its functions were absorbed into the World Baseball Softball Confederation.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| International Baseball Federation canonical | 8 |
| Fédération Internationale de Baseball | 1 |
| IBAF merged into WBSC | 1 |
| International Baseball Association Federation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2792122 — 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: International Baseball Federation Context triple: [World Baseball Softball Confederation, formedByMergerOf, International Baseball Federation]
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World Baseball Softball Confederation
The World Baseball Softball Confederation is the international governing body responsible for overseeing and promoting the sports of baseball and softball worldwide, including organizing major global competitions and setting official rules.
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B.
National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues
The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues was the longtime governing body for Minor League Baseball in the United States and Canada, overseeing its leagues and teams from 1901 until its reorganization in 2021.
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C.
National League of Professional Baseball Clubs
The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs is the oldest existing major league in American professional baseball and one of the two leagues that make up Major League Baseball.
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D.
Mezhdunarodnaya Khokkeinaya Liga
Mezhdunarodnaya Khokkeinaya Liga is the Russian name for the International Hockey League, a former professional ice hockey league that operated in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states.
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E.
Nippon Professional Baseball
Nippon Professional Baseball is Japan’s highest-level professional baseball organization, comprising multiple teams in its Central and Pacific Leagues.
- 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: International Baseball Federation Target entity description: The International Baseball Federation was the former worldwide governing body responsible for overseeing and promoting the sport of baseball before its functions were absorbed into the World Baseball Softball Confederation.
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A.
World Baseball Softball Confederation
The World Baseball Softball Confederation is the international governing body responsible for overseeing and promoting the sports of baseball and softball worldwide, including organizing major global competitions and setting official rules.
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B.
National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues
The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues was the longtime governing body for Minor League Baseball in the United States and Canada, overseeing its leagues and teams from 1901 until its reorganization in 2021.
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C.
National League of Professional Baseball Clubs
The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs is the oldest existing major league in American professional baseball and one of the two leagues that make up Major League Baseball.
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D.
Mezhdunarodnaya Khokkeinaya Liga
Mezhdunarodnaya Khokkeinaya Liga is the Russian name for the International Hockey League, a former professional ice hockey league that operated in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states.
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E.
Nippon Professional Baseball
Nippon Professional Baseball is Japan’s highest-level professional baseball organization, comprising multiple teams in its Central and Pacific Leagues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball governing body
ⓘ
international sports federation ⓘ |
| activity |
establishing international baseball rules
ⓘ
promoting baseball as an Olympic sport ⓘ sanctioning international baseball tournaments ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
International Baseball Federation
ⓘ
surface form:
Fédération Internationale de Baseball
|
| collaboratedWith | International Olympic Committee ⓘ |
| continentServed |
Africa
ⓘ
Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ Oceania ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| countryAssociated | Switzerland ⓘ |
| field |
international sports administration
ⓘ
sports governance ⓘ |
| governedCategory |
junior baseball
ⓘ
men’s baseball ⓘ women’s baseball ⓘ youth baseball ⓘ |
| governedDiscipline | international baseball competitions ⓘ |
| governedSport | baseball ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Lausanne, Switzerland ⓘ |
| maintainedRanking |
IBAF
ⓘ
surface form:
IBAF World Rankings
|
| memberType |
continental baseball confederation
ⓘ
national baseball federation ⓘ |
| mergedInto | World Baseball Softball Confederation ⓘ |
| natureOfOrganization | non-profit organization ⓘ |
| objective |
development of baseball worldwide
ⓘ
standardization of baseball rules ⓘ |
| officialLanguage |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| organizedCompetition |
Baseball World Cup
ⓘ
WBSC Women’s Baseball World Cup ⓘ
surface form:
IBAF Women’s Baseball World Cup
IBAF World Junior Championships ⓘ IBAF ⓘ
surface form:
IBAF World Rankings
IBAF World Junior Championships ⓘ
surface form:
IBAF World Youth Championships
Intercontinental Cup (baseball) ⓘ |
| replacedBy | World Baseball Softball Confederation ⓘ |
| role |
governing body for baseball
ⓘ
promotion of baseball ⓘ |
| scope | worldwide ⓘ |
| shortName | IBAF ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successor | World Baseball Softball Confederation ⓘ |
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: International Baseball Federation Description of subject: The International Baseball Federation was the former worldwide governing body responsible for overseeing and promoting the sport of baseball before its functions were absorbed into the World Baseball Softball Confederation.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
IBAF merged into WBSC
this entity surface form:
Fédération Internationale de Baseball
this entity surface form:
International Baseball Association Federation