Eagle Football Holdings
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Eagle Football Holdings is a multi-club football investment group led by American businessman John Textor, with stakes in several professional soccer teams across Europe and the Americas.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eagle Football Holdings canonical | 2 |
| Eagle Football | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2923854 — 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: Eagle Football Holdings Context triple: [Olympique Lyonnais, owner, Eagle Football Holdings]
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A.
Anschutz Corporation
Anschutz Corporation is a privately held American holding company with diversified interests in energy, railroads, real estate, sports, and entertainment.
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B.
Hunt Sports Group
Hunt Sports Group is a sports ownership and management company best known for operating professional teams such as Major League Soccer’s FC Dallas.
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C.
The Staubach Company
The Staubach Company was a prominent commercial real estate services firm known for representing corporate tenants, founded and led by former NFL quarterback Roger Staubach before its acquisition by Jones Lang LaSalle.
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D.
Haslam Sports Group
Haslam Sports Group is a sports ownership and investment company led by the Haslam family, known for owning major professional teams including the NFL’s Cleveland Browns and MLS’s Columbus Crew.
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E.
Cox Enterprises
Cox Enterprises is a major U.S. privately held media, communications, and automotive services conglomerate.
- 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: Eagle Football Holdings Target entity description: Eagle Football Holdings is a multi-club football investment group led by American businessman John Textor, with stakes in several professional soccer teams across Europe and the Americas.
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A.
Anschutz Corporation
Anschutz Corporation is a privately held American holding company with diversified interests in energy, railroads, real estate, sports, and entertainment.
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B.
Hunt Sports Group
Hunt Sports Group is a sports ownership and management company best known for operating professional teams such as Major League Soccer’s FC Dallas.
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C.
The Staubach Company
The Staubach Company was a prominent commercial real estate services firm known for representing corporate tenants, founded and led by former NFL quarterback Roger Staubach before its acquisition by Jones Lang LaSalle.
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D.
Haslam Sports Group
Haslam Sports Group is a sports ownership and investment company led by the Haslam family, known for owning major professional teams including the NFL’s Cleveland Browns and MLS’s Columbus Crew.
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E.
Cox Enterprises
Cox Enterprises is a major U.S. privately held media, communications, and automotive services conglomerate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
multi-club football ownership group
ⓘ
sports investment company ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Eagle Football Holdings
ⓘ
surface form:
Eagle Football
|
| businessModel | multi-club ownership ⓘ |
| chairman | John Textor ⓘ |
| controlsClub |
Botafogo FR
ⓘ
surface form:
Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas
Olympique Lyonnais ⓘ RWD Molenbeek ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focusesOn |
player development
ⓘ
professional football clubs ⓘ talent scouting network ⓘ |
| founder | John Textor ⓘ |
| hasControllingInterestIn |
Botafogo FR
ⓘ
surface form:
Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas
Olympique Lyonnais ⓘ RWD Molenbeek ⓘ |
| hasMajorityOwnershipIn |
Botafogo FR
ⓘ
surface form:
Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas
Olympique Lyonnais ⓘ R.W.D. Molenbeek ⓘ
surface form:
RWD Molenbeek
|
| hasSignificantMinorityStakeIn | Crystal Palace F.C. ⓘ |
| industry |
football club ownership
ⓘ
soccer club ownership ⓘ sports investment ⓘ |
| keyPerson | John Textor ⓘ |
| leader | John Textor ⓘ |
| operatesInCountry |
Belgium
ⓘ
Brazil ⓘ England ⓘ France ⓘ |
| operatesInRegion |
Europe
ⓘ
South America ⓘ |
| ownsStakeIn |
Botafogo FR
ⓘ
surface form:
Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas
Crystal Palace F.C. ⓘ Olympique Lyonnais ⓘ Olympique Lyonnais Féminin ⓘ Molenbeek-Saint-Jean ⓘ
surface form:
RWD Molenbeek
|
| portfolioIncludes |
men's professional football teams
ⓘ
women's professional football teams ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| strategicObjective |
integrated global football network
ⓘ
synergies between member clubs ⓘ |
| typeOfOwnershipStructure | private company ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Eagle Football Holdings Description of subject: Eagle Football Holdings is a multi-club football investment group led by American businessman John Textor, with stakes in several professional soccer teams across Europe and the Americas.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Eagle Football