Houston Comets
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The Houston Comets were a dominant early WNBA franchise that won the league’s first four championships and featured stars like Cynthia Cooper and Sheryl Swoopes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Houston Comets canonical | 31 |
| Houston Comets WNBA championships | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1268088 — 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: Houston Comets Context triple: [Women's National Basketball Association, mostChampionshipsTeam, Houston Comets]
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A.
San Antonio Silver Stars
The San Antonio Silver Stars were a professional women's basketball team in the WNBA based in San Antonio, Texas.
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B.
Washington Mystics
The Washington Mystics are a professional women's basketball team based in Washington, D.C., competing in the WNBA.
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C.
Atlanta Dream
The Atlanta Dream is a professional women's basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia, that competes in the WNBA.
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D.
New York Liberty
The New York Liberty is a professional women's basketball team based in New York City that competes in the WNBA.
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E.
Dallas Wings
The Dallas Wings are a professional women's basketball team in the WNBA based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area.
- 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: Houston Comets Target entity description: The Houston Comets were a dominant early WNBA franchise that won the league’s first four championships and featured stars like Cynthia Cooper and Sheryl Swoopes.
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A.
San Antonio Silver Stars
The San Antonio Silver Stars were a professional women's basketball team in the WNBA based in San Antonio, Texas.
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B.
Washington Mystics
The Washington Mystics are a professional women's basketball team based in Washington, D.C., competing in the WNBA.
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C.
Atlanta Dream
The Atlanta Dream is a professional women's basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia, that competes in the WNBA.
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D.
New York Liberty
The New York Liberty is a professional women's basketball team based in New York City that competes in the WNBA.
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E.
Dallas Wings
The Dallas Wings are a professional women's basketball team in the WNBA based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area.
- 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: Houston Comets Description of subject: The Houston Comets were a dominant early WNBA franchise that won the league’s first four championships and featured stars like Cynthia Cooper and Sheryl Swoopes.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Women’s National Basketball Association
subject linked to:
Lobo
subject linked to:
Rebecca Rose Lobo
linked to: Houston Comets
subject linked to:
autobiography "Bounce Back"