Burlington Bees
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The Burlington Bees are a minor league baseball team based in Burlington, Iowa, known for developing young professional players within Major League Baseball farm systems.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Burlington Bees canonical | 7 |
| Burlington Indians | 3 |
| Burlington Zephyrs | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T908814 — 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: Burlington Bees Context triple: [Burlington, Iowa, United States, hasSportsTeam, Burlington Bees]
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A.
Hartford Yard Goats
The Hartford Yard Goats are a Minor League Baseball team based in Hartford, Connecticut, serving as the Double-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies.
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B.
Norfolk Tides
The Norfolk Tides are a Minor League Baseball team based in Norfolk, Virginia, serving as a Triple-A affiliate and long-standing International League club.
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C.
Boston Rustlers
The Boston Rustlers were a short-lived early 20th-century Major League Baseball team based in Boston, known for briefly featuring legendary pitcher Cy Young near the end of his career.
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D.
Richmond Flying Squirrels
The Richmond Flying Squirrels are a Minor League Baseball team based in Richmond, Virginia, serving as the Double-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.
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E.
Jersey Shore BlueClaws
The Jersey Shore BlueClaws are a Minor League Baseball team and Class A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies based in the Jersey Shore region of New Jersey.
- 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: Burlington Bees Target entity description: The Burlington Bees are a minor league baseball team based in Burlington, Iowa, known for developing young professional players within Major League Baseball farm systems.
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A.
Hartford Yard Goats
The Hartford Yard Goats are a Minor League Baseball team based in Hartford, Connecticut, serving as the Double-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies.
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B.
Norfolk Tides
The Norfolk Tides are a Minor League Baseball team based in Norfolk, Virginia, serving as a Triple-A affiliate and long-standing International League club.
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C.
Boston Rustlers
The Boston Rustlers were a short-lived early 20th-century Major League Baseball team based in Boston, known for briefly featuring legendary pitcher Cy Young near the end of his career.
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D.
Richmond Flying Squirrels
The Richmond Flying Squirrels are a Minor League Baseball team based in Richmond, Virginia, serving as the Double-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.
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E.
Jersey Shore BlueClaws
The Jersey Shore BlueClaws are a Minor League Baseball team and Class A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies based in the Jersey Shore region of New Jersey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Minor League Baseball team ⓘ |
| abbreviation | BUR ⓘ |
| affiliation |
formerly affiliated with Chicago Cubs
ⓘ
formerly affiliated with Cincinnati Reds ⓘ formerly affiliated with Cleveland Indians ⓘ formerly affiliated with Kansas City Royals ⓘ formerly affiliated with Los Angeles Angels ⓘ formerly affiliated with Milwaukee Brewers ⓘ formerly affiliated with Oakland Athletics ⓘ formerly affiliated with Pittsburgh Pirates ⓘ formerly affiliated with St. Louis Cardinals ⓘ |
| championships | Multiple league championships in lower minor leagues ⓘ |
| city | Burlington, Iowa ⓘ |
| classLevel | Collegiate summer baseball (from 2021) ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | Below Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| formerClassLevel |
Class A
ⓘ
Class A-Advanced ⓘ |
| formerLeague |
Central Association
ⓘ
Midwest League ⓘ Midwest League (Class A) ⓘ
linked to:
Midwest League
Missouri–Iowa–Nebraska–Kansas League ⓘ Three-I League ⓘ |
| formerlyMiLB | Yes ⓘ |
| founded | 1889 ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.gobees.com/ ⓘ |
| homeBallpark | Community Field ⓘ |
| homeCapacity | Community Field seating capacity approximately 3,000–4,000 ⓘ |
| homeOpenerTradition | Play home games at Community Field in spring and summer ⓘ |
| joinedProspectLeague | 2021 ⓘ |
| league |
Prospect League
ⓘ
linked to:
Northwoods League
|
| location | Burlington, Iowa ⓘ |
| mascot | Buzz (commonly referenced team mascot name) ⓘ |
| nickname |
Bees
ⓘ
linked to:
Apis mellifera
|
| notableAlumni |
Billy Williams
ⓘ
Bobby Grich ⓘ Larry Walker ⓘ Mike Trout ⓘ Paul Molitor ⓘ Vida Blue ⓘ |
| organizationType | Professional baseball organization ⓘ |
| participation | Major League Baseball farm systems (historically) ⓘ |
| role | Development of young professional baseball players ⓘ |
| sport | Baseball ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| teamColors |
Gold
ⓘ
Navy blue ⓘ White ⓘ |
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: Burlington Bees Description of subject: The Burlington Bees are a minor league baseball team based in Burlington, Iowa, known for developing young professional players within Major League Baseball farm systems.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Buzz (commonly referenced team mascot name)
subject linked to:
Buzz (commonly referenced team mascot name)
linked to: Burlington Bees
linked to: Burlington Bees
linked to: Burlington Bees
linked to: Burlington Bees