Proleague
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Proleague was a premier professional team-based esports league in South Korea, best known for its highly competitive StarCraft: Brood War matches and influential role in shaping early esports culture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Proleague canonical | 2 |
| KeSPA Proleague | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11642303 — 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: Proleague Context triple: [StarCraft: Brood War, hostedLeague, Proleague]
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A.
Proximus League
Proximus League was the former name of Belgium’s second-tier professional football league, now known as the Challenger Pro League.
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B.
D3 Pro League
The D3 Pro League was a former third-division professional soccer league in the United States that operated under the United Soccer Leagues (USL) structure.
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C.
ESL Pro League
ESL Pro League is a premier professional Counter-Strike esports league featuring top international teams competing in seasonal tournaments organized by ESL.
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D.
Human League
Human League is a pioneering British synth-pop band, best known for their influential 1980s hits and role in shaping the new wave and electronic music scenes.
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E.
C9 League
The C9 League is an elite alliance of nine top Chinese universities recognized for their leading roles in research, education, and academic excellence.
- 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: Proleague Target entity description: Proleague was a premier professional team-based esports league in South Korea, best known for its highly competitive StarCraft: Brood War matches and influential role in shaping early esports culture.
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A.
Proximus League
Proximus League was the former name of Belgium’s second-tier professional football league, now known as the Challenger Pro League.
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B.
D3 Pro League
The D3 Pro League was a former third-division professional soccer league in the United States that operated under the United Soccer Leagues (USL) structure.
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C.
ESL Pro League
ESL Pro League is a premier professional Counter-Strike esports league featuring top international teams competing in seasonal tournaments organized by ESL.
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D.
Human League
Human League is a pioneering British synth-pop band, best known for their influential 1980s hits and role in shaping the new wave and electronic music scenes.
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E.
C9 League
The C9 League is an elite alliance of nine top Chinese universities recognized for their leading roles in research, education, and academic excellence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
StarCraft league
ⓘ
esports league ⓘ |
| basedOn | StarCraft professional scene in South Korea ⓘ |
| broadcaster |
MBCGame
ⓘ
OnGameNet ⓘ SPOTV Games ⓘ
linked to:
SPOTV
|
| broadcastMedium |
online streaming
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| competitionType | professional league ⓘ |
| country | South Korea ⓘ |
| countryOfTeams | South Korea ⓘ |
| dissolved | 2016 ⓘ |
| endCause | disbanded by Korea e-Sports Association ⓘ |
| era |
Brood War golden age
ⓘ
early 2000s esports ⓘ |
| format | team league ⓘ |
| game |
StarCraft II
ⓘ
StarCraft: Brood War ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Korea e-Sports Association
ⓘ
linked to:
Korean e-Sports Association
|
| hadInternationalViewers | true ⓘ |
| hasSeasonStructure | regular season and playoffs ⓘ |
| inception | 2003 ⓘ |
| influenced |
global StarCraft esports
ⓘ
team-based esports league formats ⓘ |
| languageOfBroadcast | Korean ⓘ |
| leagueLevel | premier ⓘ |
| legacy | considered one of the most important leagues in StarCraft history ⓘ |
| locationCountry | South Korea ⓘ |
| matchFormat |
ace match tiebreaker
ⓘ
best-of series ⓘ |
| notableFor |
highly competitive StarCraft: Brood War matches
ⓘ
influential role in shaping early esports culture ⓘ team-based format in StarCraft esports ⓘ |
| notableTeam |
CJ Entus
ⓘ
Hwaseung OZ ⓘ KT Rolster ⓘ SK Telecom T1 ⓘ STX SouL ⓘ Samsung Khan ⓘ Woongjin Stars ⓘ |
| organizer |
Korea e-Sports Association
ⓘ
linked to:
Korean e-Sports Association
|
| participantType | professional esports teams ⓘ |
| region | South Korea ⓘ |
| shortName |
KeSPA Proleague
ⓘ
linked to:
Proleague
|
| sponsorType | corporate team sponsors ⓘ |
| sport | esports ⓘ |
| teamType | corporate-backed esports teams ⓘ |
| transitionedGame | from StarCraft: Brood War to StarCraft II ⓘ |
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: Proleague Description of subject: Proleague was a premier professional team-based esports league in South Korea, best known for its highly competitive StarCraft: Brood War matches and influential role in shaping early esports culture.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.