The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
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The Iowa Baseball Confederacy is a magical realist novel by W. P. Kinsella that blends baseball lore with time travel and mythic Americana.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Iowa Baseball Confederacy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19876117 — 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: The Iowa Baseball Confederacy Context triple: [W. P. Kinsella, notableWork, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy]
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A.
Nebraska-Iowa Athletic Conference
The Nebraska-Iowa Athletic Conference was a former college athletic conference in the Midwestern United States that organized intercollegiate sports competition among small colleges in Nebraska and Iowa.
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B.
Futures Collegiate Baseball League
The Futures Collegiate Baseball League is a summer collegiate baseball league in New England that showcases college players using wooden bats in a minor-league-style environment.
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C.
Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association
The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association is an NCAA Division II collegiate athletic conference primarily composed of universities in the Midwestern United States.
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D.
Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
The Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference was a former college athletic conference that organized intercollegiate sports competition among various Illinois institutions.
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E.
Panhandle Conference
The Panhandle Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in Florida that organizes and governs intercollegiate sports competition among its member community and state colleges.
- 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: The Iowa Baseball Confederacy Target entity description: The Iowa Baseball Confederacy is a magical realist novel by W. P. Kinsella that blends baseball lore with time travel and mythic Americana.
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A.
Nebraska-Iowa Athletic Conference
The Nebraska-Iowa Athletic Conference was a former college athletic conference in the Midwestern United States that organized intercollegiate sports competition among small colleges in Nebraska and Iowa.
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B.
Futures Collegiate Baseball League
The Futures Collegiate Baseball League is a summer collegiate baseball league in New England that showcases college players using wooden bats in a minor-league-style environment.
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C.
Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association
The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association is an NCAA Division II collegiate athletic conference primarily composed of universities in the Midwestern United States.
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D.
Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
The Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference was a former college athletic conference that organized intercollegiate sports competition among various Illinois institutions.
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E.
Panhandle Conference
The Panhandle Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in Florida that organizes and governs intercollegiate sports competition among its member community and state colleges.
- F. None of above. chosen
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