Pittsburgh Spirit
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Pittsburgh Spirit was a professional indoor soccer team based in Pittsburgh that competed in the Major Indoor Soccer League during the 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pittsburgh Spirit canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5651096 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pittsburgh Spirit Context triple: [Dave Sarachan, playedFor, Pittsburgh Spirit]
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A.
Pittsburgh Condors
The Pittsburgh Condors were a short-lived professional basketball team based in Pittsburgh that competed in the American Basketball Association in the early 1970s.
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B.
Fischtown Pinguins
Fischtown Pinguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Bremerhaven, Germany, competing in the country’s top-tier Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).
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C.
Youngstown Phantoms
The Youngstown Phantoms are a junior ice hockey team based in Youngstown, Ohio, that competes in the United States Hockey League (USHL).
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D.
St. Louis Spirits
St. Louis Spirits were a short-lived American Basketball Association (ABA) franchise from the 1970s, best known for their colorful history and one of the most lucrative TV-rights deals in sports history.
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E.
Pittsburgh Pipers
The Pittsburgh Pipers were a professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association (ABA) best known for winning the league’s inaugural championship in 1968.
- 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: Pittsburgh Spirit Target entity description: Pittsburgh Spirit was a professional indoor soccer team based in Pittsburgh that competed in the Major Indoor Soccer League during the 1980s.
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A.
Pittsburgh Condors
The Pittsburgh Condors were a short-lived professional basketball team based in Pittsburgh that competed in the American Basketball Association in the early 1970s.
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B.
Fischtown Pinguins
Fischtown Pinguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Bremerhaven, Germany, competing in the country’s top-tier Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).
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C.
Youngstown Phantoms
The Youngstown Phantoms are a junior ice hockey team based in Youngstown, Ohio, that competes in the United States Hockey League (USHL).
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D.
St. Louis Spirits
St. Louis Spirits were a short-lived American Basketball Association (ABA) franchise from the 1970s, best known for their colorful history and one of the most lucrative TV-rights deals in sports history.
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E.
Pittsburgh Pipers
The Pittsburgh Pipers were a professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association (ABA) best known for winning the league’s inaugural championship in 1968.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
professional indoor soccer team
ⓘ
sports team ⓘ |
| activePeriodEnd | mid-1980s ⓘ |
| activePeriodStart | late 1970s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | The Spirit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Pittsburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | professional ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1986 ⓘ |
| gender | men's team ⓘ |
| hasFanBase | Pittsburgh metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeArena | Civic Arena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeArenaCapacityApprox | 16000 ⓘ |
| homeCity | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeGamesLocation | Pittsburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1978 ⓘ |
| league | Major Indoor Soccer League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCoach |
John Kowalski
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Len Bilous NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePlayer |
Dave MacKenzie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Krys Sobieski NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Child NERFINISHED ⓘ Stan Terlecki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Major Indoor Soccer League (original) era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedIn |
1981–82 MISL season
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
1982–83 MISL season ⓘ 1983–84 MISL season ⓘ 1984–85 MISL season NERFINISHED ⓘ 1985–86 MISL season ⓘ |
| precededBy | Pittsburgh Miners (indoor soccer, short-lived predecessor) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | North America ⓘ |
| sport | indoor soccer ⓘ |
| teamColors |
black
ⓘ
gold ⓘ |
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: Pittsburgh Spirit Description of subject: Pittsburgh Spirit was a professional indoor soccer team based in Pittsburgh that competed in the Major Indoor Soccer League during the 1980s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.