Buffalo Bisons (Major League)

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19th-century professional baseball team defunct Major League Baseball team

Buffalo Bisons (Major League) were a 19th-century professional baseball team that competed in the National League and featured several prominent early-era players.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Buffalo Bisons	4
Buffalo Bisons (NL)	2
Buffalo Bisons (Major League) canonical	1
Buffalo Bisons (National League)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1148667 — 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: Buffalo Bisons (Major League)
Context triple: [Connie Mack, playedFor, Buffalo Bisons (Major League)]

A. Buffalo Bisons
The Buffalo Bisons were a short-lived professional basketball team that later relocated and evolved into the franchise now known as the Atlanta Hawks.
B. Buffalo Bandits
The Buffalo Bandits are a professional box lacrosse team based in Buffalo, New York, competing in the National Lacrosse League.
C. Buffalo Sabres
The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York, competing in the NHL’s Eastern Conference.
D. Toronto Toros
The Toronto Toros were a 1970s World Hockey Association (WHA) professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario.
E. Cleveland Buckeyes
The Cleveland Buckeyes were a professional Negro league baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio, that competed primarily in the 1940s and won the Negro World Series in 1945.
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: Buffalo Bisons (Major League)
Target entity description: Buffalo Bisons (Major League) were a 19th-century professional baseball team that competed in the National League and featured several prominent early-era players.

A. Buffalo Bisons
The Buffalo Bisons were a short-lived professional basketball team that later relocated and evolved into the franchise now known as the Atlanta Hawks.
B. Buffalo Bandits
The Buffalo Bandits are a professional box lacrosse team based in Buffalo, New York, competing in the National Lacrosse League.
C. Buffalo Sabres
The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York, competing in the NHL’s Eastern Conference.
D. Toronto Toros
The Toronto Toros were a 1970s World Hockey Association (WHA) professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario.
E. Cleveland Buckeyes
The Cleveland Buckeyes were a professional Negro league baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio, that competed primarily in the 1940s and won the Negro World Series in 1945.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (12)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	19th-century professional baseball team ⓘ defunct Major League Baseball team ⓘ
activeInCentury	19th century ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
featuredProminentPlayers	true ⓘ
homeCity	Buffalo ⓘ
homeState	New York ⓘ
league	National League ⓘ linked to: National League of Professional Baseball Clubs
location	Buffalo, New York ⓘ linked to: Buffalo
professional	true ⓘ
sport	baseball ⓘ
status	defunct ⓘ

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