New England Tea Men
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The New England Tea Men were a professional soccer team based in the Boston area that competed in the North American Soccer League in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New England Tea Men canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10958126 — 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: New England Tea Men Context triple: [Noel Cantwell, managerOf, New England Tea Men]
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A.
Folger coffee family
The Folger coffee family is an American family best known for founding and developing the Folgers Coffee Company, one of the most recognizable coffee brands in the United States.
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B.
Brewster & Co.
Brewster & Co. was a prestigious American coachbuilding firm renowned for crafting luxurious custom bodies for high-end automobiles in the early 20th century.
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C.
Maxwell House
Maxwell House is a long-standing American coffee brand known for its mass-market ground and instant coffees and the slogan "Good to the last drop."
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D.
Brewer & Shipley
Brewer & Shipley are an American folk rock duo best known for their 1970 hit single "One Toke Over the Line."
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E.
Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company
Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company is a specialty coffee and tea brand best known as the official coffee provider throughout Walt Disney World and other Disney destinations.
- 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: New England Tea Men Target entity description: The New England Tea Men were a professional soccer team based in the Boston area that competed in the North American Soccer League in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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A.
Folger coffee family
The Folger coffee family is an American family best known for founding and developing the Folgers Coffee Company, one of the most recognizable coffee brands in the United States.
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B.
Brewster & Co.
Brewster & Co. was a prestigious American coachbuilding firm renowned for crafting luxurious custom bodies for high-end automobiles in the early 20th century.
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C.
Maxwell House
Maxwell House is a long-standing American coffee brand known for its mass-market ground and instant coffees and the slogan "Good to the last drop."
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D.
Brewer & Shipley
Brewer & Shipley are an American folk rock duo best known for their 1970 hit single "One Toke Over the Line."
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E.
Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company
Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company is a specialty coffee and tea brand best known as the official coffee provider throughout Walt Disney World and other Disney destinations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
North American Soccer League team
ⓘ
defunct soccer club ⓘ soccer club ⓘ |
| basedIn | Boston metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competition |
NASL playoffs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NASL regular season ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dissolved | 1980 ⓘ |
| division | NASL Eastern Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | 1978 ⓘ |
| homeCity |
Boston, Massachusetts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Foxborough, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeRegion | New England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeStadium |
Nickerson Field
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Schaefer Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league | North American Soccer League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mascotTheme | tea ⓘ |
| nameInspiredBy | Boston Tea Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameRefersTo | tea ⓘ |
| notableCoach | Noel Cantwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePlayer |
Eusébio
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kevin Keelan NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Flanagan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Lipton Tea Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionRepresented | Greater Boston area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relocatedTo | Jacksonville Tea Men NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seasonPlayed |
1978 NASL season
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
1979 NASL season NERFINISHED ⓘ 1980 NASL season ⓘ |
| sponsor | Lipton Tea Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | soccer ⓘ |
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: New England Tea Men Description of subject: The New England Tea Men were a professional soccer team based in the Boston area that competed in the North American Soccer League in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.