Prince William Cannons
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The Prince William Cannons were a former Minor League Baseball team based in Prince William County, Virginia, that competed in the Class A Carolina League.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Prince William Cannons canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6016779 — 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: Prince William Cannons Context triple: [Dave Silvestri, minorLeagueAffiliation, Prince William Cannons]
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A.
Marshall of Cambridge
Marshall of Cambridge was a British aerospace and defence company best known for aircraft maintenance, modification, and engineering services.
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B.
William Prince
William Prince was an American film, stage, and television actor active in the mid-20th century, known for his versatile character roles in Hollywood and on Broadway.
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C.
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland was an 18th-century British royal and military commander, best known for his role in the Battle of Culloden and the suppression of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
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D.
Hughie Prince
Hughie Prince was an American songwriter and composer best known for co-writing the World War II-era hit "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."
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E.
Lord William Stanley
Lord William Stanley was a prominent English nobleman of the late 15th century, best known for his decisive intervention at the Battle of Bosworth Field that helped secure Henry VII’s victory and end the Wars of the Roses.
- 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: Prince William Cannons Target entity description: The Prince William Cannons were a former Minor League Baseball team based in Prince William County, Virginia, that competed in the Class A Carolina League.
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A.
Marshall of Cambridge
Marshall of Cambridge was a British aerospace and defence company best known for aircraft maintenance, modification, and engineering services.
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B.
William Prince
William Prince was an American film, stage, and television actor active in the mid-20th century, known for his versatile character roles in Hollywood and on Broadway.
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C.
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland was an 18th-century British royal and military commander, best known for his role in the Battle of Culloden and the suppression of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
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D.
Hughie Prince
Hughie Prince was an American songwriter and composer best known for co-writing the World War II-era hit "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."
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E.
Lord William Stanley
Lord William Stanley was a prominent English nobleman of the late 15th century, best known for his decisive intervention at the Battle of Bosworth Field that helped secure Henry VII’s victory and end the Wars of the Roses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Minor League Baseball team
ⓘ
defunct sports team ⓘ |
| activeFrom | 1989 ⓘ |
| activeUntil | 1998 ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Chicago White Sox
ⓘ
Cincinnati Reds ⓘ New York Yankees ⓘ St. Louis Cardinals ⓘ |
| basedIn | Woodbridge, Virginia ⓘ |
| classLevel | Class A ⓘ |
| competition | Minor League Baseball ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| hasHomeGamesAt | G. Richard Pfitzner Stadium ⓘ |
| homeVenue | G. Richard Pfitzner Stadium ⓘ |
| league | Carolina League ⓘ |
| levelOfPlay | Single-A ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Prince William County, Virginia ⓘ |
| partOf | farm system of Major League Baseball clubs ⓘ |
| predecessor | Prince William Yankees ⓘ |
| relocatedTo | Woodbridge, Virginia ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| state | Virginia ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successor |
Fredericksburg Nationals
ⓘ
linked to:
Potomac Nationals (former)
Potomac Cannons ⓘ Potomac Nationals ⓘ
linked to:
Potomac Nationals (former)
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| teamNickname | Cannons ⓘ |
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: Prince William Cannons Description of subject: The Prince William Cannons were a former Minor League Baseball team based in Prince William County, Virginia, that competed in the Class A Carolina League.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.