NFL playoffs
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The NFL playoffs are the National Football League’s postseason elimination tournament that determines which teams advance to and ultimately compete in the Super Bowl.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NFL playoffs canonical | 31 |
| NFL postseason | 5 |
| National Football League postseason | 3 |
| NFL playoff games | 2 |
| NFL regular season | 2 |
| NFL Divisional round | 1 |
| NFL Wild Card Weekend | 1 |
| NFL conference championship games | 1 |
| National Football League playoffs | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T68930 — 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: NFL playoffs Context triple: [NFC, playoffStructure, NFL playoffs]
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A.
AFC playoffs
The AFC playoffs are the National Football League’s postseason tournament that determines which American Football Conference team advances to the Super Bowl.
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B.
College Football Playoff
The College Football Playoff is the postseason system that determines the national champion of top-tier U.S. college football through a bracket-style tournament of elite teams.
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C.
AFC Championship Game
The AFC Championship Game is the National Football League’s annual playoff matchup that determines the American Football Conference champion and one of the two teams that advance to the Super Bowl.
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D.
Super Bowl XLIX
Super Bowl XLIX was the 2015 NFL championship game in which the New England Patriots defeated the Seattle Seahawks in a dramatic finish highlighted by Malcolm Butler’s game-sealing interception at the goal line.
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E.
Super Bowl LI
Super Bowl LI was the 2017 NFL championship game in which the New England Patriots staged a historic comeback to defeat the Atlanta Falcons in overtime.
- 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: NFL playoffs Target entity description: The NFL playoffs are the National Football League’s postseason elimination tournament that determines which teams advance to and ultimately compete in the Super Bowl.
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A.
AFC playoffs
The AFC playoffs are the National Football League’s postseason tournament that determines which American Football Conference team advances to the Super Bowl.
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B.
College Football Playoff
The College Football Playoff is the postseason system that determines the national champion of top-tier U.S. college football through a bracket-style tournament of elite teams.
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C.
AFC Championship Game
The AFC Championship Game is the National Football League’s annual playoff matchup that determines the American Football Conference champion and one of the two teams that advance to the Super Bowl.
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D.
Super Bowl XLIX
Super Bowl XLIX was the 2015 NFL championship game in which the New England Patriots defeated the Seattle Seahawks in a dramatic finish highlighted by Malcolm Butler’s game-sealing interception at the goal line.
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E.
Super Bowl LI
Super Bowl LI was the 2017 NFL championship game in which the New England Patriots staged a historic comeback to defeat the Atlanta Falcons in overtime.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: NFL playoffs Description of subject: The NFL playoffs are the National Football League’s postseason elimination tournament that determines which teams advance to and ultimately compete in the Super Bowl.
Referenced by (47)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
National Football League postseason
this entity surface form:
NFL regular season
this entity surface form:
NFL postseason
this entity surface form:
NFL regular season
subject surface form:
Thomas Brady
this entity surface form:
National Football League postseason
this entity surface form:
NFL Wild Card Weekend
this entity surface form:
NFL Divisional round
this entity surface form:
NFL postseason
this entity surface form:
NFL postseason
this entity surface form:
NFL playoff games
this entity surface form:
NFL postseason
this entity surface form:
NFL playoff games
this entity surface form:
National Football League postseason
this entity surface form:
National Football League playoffs
this entity surface form:
NFL conference championship games
subject surface form:
New York Giants
this entity surface form:
NFL postseason