Major Arena Soccer League
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The Major Arena Soccer League is a professional indoor soccer league in North America featuring teams that play a fast-paced, high-scoring variant of traditional soccer.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Major Arena Soccer League canonical | 15 |
| Major Arena Soccer League playoffs | 2 |
| Major Arena Soccer League regular season | 2 |
| Major Arena Soccer League (MASL) | 1 |
| Professional Arena Soccer League | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6311649 — 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: Major Arena Soccer League Context triple: [Vlatko Andonovski, leagueCoachedIn, Major Arena Soccer League]
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A.
American Professional Soccer League
The American Professional Soccer League was a former U.S.-based professional soccer league that operated in the early 1990s and served as a key predecessor to later American outdoor soccer competitions.
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B.
National Premier Soccer League
The National Premier Soccer League is a nationwide amateur and semi-professional men's soccer league in the United States that operates in the fourth tier of the American soccer pyramid.
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C.
Major Indoor Soccer League
The Major Indoor Soccer League was a professional indoor soccer league in North America that operated primarily in the 1980s and early 1990s, featuring fast-paced, high-scoring matches played in hockey-style arenas.
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D.
Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer is the top-tier professional men's soccer league in the United States and Canada.
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E.
NASL
NASL was a professional soccer league that operated in the United States and Canada from 2011 to 2017 as a second-division competition.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Major Arena Soccer League Target entity description: The Major Arena Soccer League is a professional indoor soccer league in North America featuring teams that play a fast-paced, high-scoring variant of traditional soccer.
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A.
American Professional Soccer League
The American Professional Soccer League was a former U.S.-based professional soccer league that operated in the early 1990s and served as a key predecessor to later American outdoor soccer competitions.
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B.
National Premier Soccer League
The National Premier Soccer League is a nationwide amateur and semi-professional men's soccer league in the United States that operates in the fourth tier of the American soccer pyramid.
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C.
Major Indoor Soccer League
The Major Indoor Soccer League was a professional indoor soccer league in North America that operated primarily in the 1980s and early 1990s, featuring fast-paced, high-scoring matches played in hockey-style arenas.
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D.
Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer is the top-tier professional men's soccer league in the United States and Canada.
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E.
NASL
NASL was a professional soccer league that operated in the United States and Canada from 2011 to 2017 as a second-division competition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
indoor soccer league
ⓘ
professional sports league ⓘ |
| abbreviation | MASL ⓘ |
| ballType | soccer ball ⓘ |
| broadcastPlatform | online streaming services ⓘ |
| category |
professional indoor soccer in Canada
ⓘ
professional indoor soccer in the United States ⓘ |
| competitionFormat |
franchise-based league
ⓘ
regular season and playoffs ⓘ |
| country |
Canada
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| founded | 2014 ⓘ |
| gameStyle |
fast-paced
ⓘ
high-scoring ⓘ |
| governingBody | Arena Soccer Group, LLC ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Eastern Conference
ⓘ
Western Conference ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
boards surrounding the field
ⓘ
emphasis on offense and scoring ⓘ multiple substitutions on the fly ⓘ shorter game duration than outdoor soccer ⓘ smaller field than outdoor soccer ⓘ |
| hasGender | men ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| inauguralSeason | 2014–15 ⓘ |
| levelOnPyramid | top tier of professional indoor soccer in North America ⓘ |
| numberOfTeams | more than 10 teams ⓘ |
| organizes |
MASL championship series
ⓘ
linked to:
MASL
MASL playoffs ⓘ
linked to:
MASL
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| origin | merger of Professional Arena Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League teams ⓘ |
| playingSurface | artificial turf ⓘ |
| region | North America ⓘ |
| seasonTiming | winter months ⓘ |
| sport |
arena soccer
ⓘ
indoor soccer ⓘ |
| usesRuleSet | modified FIFA soccer rules for indoor play ⓘ |
| venueType | indoor arenas ⓘ |
| website | https://www.maslsoccer.com ⓘ |
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: Major Arena Soccer League Description of subject: The Major Arena Soccer League is a professional indoor soccer league in North America featuring teams that play a fast-paced, high-scoring variant of traditional soccer.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Baltimore Blast (former MISL tenant)
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subject linked to:
MISL