World Football League
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The World Football League was a short-lived professional American football league in the mid-1970s that attempted to rival the NFL with teams in the United States and abroad.
All labels observed (9)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T405524 — 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: World Football League Context triple: [Don Maynard, leaguePlayedIn, World Football League]
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National Football League
The National Football League is the premier professional American football league in the United States, consisting of 32 teams that compete annually for the Super Bowl championship.
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American Football League
The American Football League was a major professional football league that operated from 1960 to 1969 and rivaled the NFL before the two leagues merged.
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C.
North American Football Union
The North American Football Union is a regional football governing body under CONCACAF that organizes and oversees soccer activities among its North American member nations.
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NFL International Series
The NFL International Series is a set of regular-season National Football League games played outside the United States, primarily designed to expand the league’s global fan base and market presence.
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E.
AFC
The AFC (American Football Conference) is one of the two conferences that make up the National Football League, comprising 16 teams that compete for a spot in the Super Bowl.
- 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: World Football League Target entity description: The World Football League was a short-lived professional American football league in the mid-1970s that attempted to rival the NFL with teams in the United States and abroad.
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A.
National Football League
The National Football League is the premier professional American football league in the United States, consisting of 32 teams that compete annually for the Super Bowl championship.
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B.
American Football League
The American Football League was a major professional football league that operated from 1960 to 1969 and rivaled the NFL before the two leagues merged.
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C.
North American Football Union
The North American Football Union is a regional football governing body under CONCACAF that organizes and oversees soccer activities among its North American member nations.
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D.
NFL International Series
The NFL International Series is a set of regular-season National Football League games played outside the United States, primarily designed to expand the league’s global fan base and market presence.
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E.
AFC
The AFC (American Football Conference) is one of the two conferences that make up the National Football League, comprising 16 teams that compete for a spot in the Super Bowl.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: World Football League Description of subject: The World Football League was a short-lived professional American football league in the mid-1970s that attempted to rival the NFL with teams in the United States and abroad.
Referenced by (49)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
World Football League season(s)
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1974 World Football League season
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1975 World Football League season
this entity surface form:
1974 World Football League season
this entity surface form:
short-lived World Football League
this entity surface form:
1974 World Football League season
this entity surface form:
1975 World Football League season
subject surface form:
Chicago Fire (WFL)
subject surface form:
Chicago Fire (WFL)
this entity surface form:
World Football League regular season games
subject surface form:
Chicago Fire (WFL)
this entity surface form:
World Football League in the United States
this entity surface form:
1974 World Football League season
this entity surface form:
World Football League franchises
this entity surface form:
1975 World Football League season
this entity surface form:
World Football League 1974 season
this entity surface form:
1975 World Football League season