Scottish Premier League

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defunct football league sports league top-tier football league

The Scottish Premier League was the top professional football league in Scotland from 1998 to 2013, featuring the country’s leading clubs before it was replaced by the Scottish Premiership.

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All labels observed (10)

Label	Occurrences
Scottish Premiership	57
Scottish Premier League canonical	27
2012–13 Scottish Premier League	1
Scottish Premier League (pre-2013)	1
Scottish Premier League 2005–06	1
Scottish Premier League Ltd	1
Scottish Premier League board	1
Scottish Premier League title with Rangers F.C.	1
Scottish Premiership (historical top tier predecessor leagues)	1
Scottish league championship	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T137708 — 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: Scottish Premier League
Context triple: [Dunfermline Athletic F.C., formerLeague, Scottish Premier League]

A. Scottish Premier Division
The Scottish Premier Division was the former top tier of professional football in Scotland, preceding the Scottish Premier League in the national league system.
B. Scottish Professional Football League
The Scottish Professional Football League is the national league system for professional football clubs in Scotland, organizing multiple tiers of competition including the Premiership, Championship, League One, and League Two.
C. Premier League
The Premier League is the top tier of English professional football, featuring elite clubs competing in one of the most popular and commercially successful sports leagues in the world.
D. EFL Cup
The EFL Cup is an annual knockout football competition in English men’s professional football, contested by clubs from the top four tiers of the league system.
E. FA Community Shield
The FA Community Shield is an annual English football match that traditionally serves as the season-opening curtain-raiser, contested between the previous season’s Premier League champions and FA Cup winners.
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: Scottish Premier League
Target entity description: The Scottish Premier League was the top professional football league in Scotland from 1998 to 2013, featuring the country’s leading clubs before it was replaced by the Scottish Premiership.

A. Scottish Premier Division
The Scottish Premier Division was the former top tier of professional football in Scotland, preceding the Scottish Premier League in the national league system.
B. Scottish Professional Football League
The Scottish Professional Football League is the national league system for professional football clubs in Scotland, organizing multiple tiers of competition including the Premiership, Championship, League One, and League Two.
C. Premier League
The Premier League is the top tier of English professional football, featuring elite clubs competing in one of the most popular and commercially successful sports leagues in the world.
D. EFL Cup
The EFL Cup is an annual knockout football competition in English men’s professional football, contested by clubs from the top four tiers of the league system.
E. FA Community Shield
The FA Community Shield is an annual English football match that traditionally serves as the season-opening curtain-raiser, contested between the previous season’s Premier League champions and FA Cup winners.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	defunct football league ⓘ sports league ⓘ top-tier football league ⓘ
abbreviation	SPL ⓘ
competitionFormat	double round-robin followed by split ⓘ
confederation	UEFA ⓘ
country	Scotland ⓘ
dissolved	2013 ⓘ
domesticCup	Scottish Cup ⓘ
featuredClub	Aberdeen F.C. ⓘ Celtic F.C. ⓘ Dundee United F.C. ⓘ Heart of Midlothian F.C. ⓘ Hibernian F.C. ⓘ Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. ⓘ Kilmarnock F.C. ⓘ Motherwell F.C. ⓘ Rangers F.C. ⓘ St Johnstone F.C. ⓘ
firstSeason	1998–99 Scottish Premier League ⓘ
founded	1998 ⓘ
governingBody	Scottish Premier League board ⓘ linked to: Scottish Premier League
headquartersLocation	Glasgow ⓘ
inception	1998-07-01 ⓘ
lastSeason	2012–13 Scottish Premier League ⓘ linked to: Scottish Premier League
leagueCup	Scottish League Cup ⓘ
levelOnPyramid	1 ⓘ
memberOf	European Professional Football Leagues ⓘ
mostSuccessfulClub	Celtic F.C. ⓘ Rangers F.C. ⓘ
numberOfTeams	12 ⓘ
officialLanguage	English ⓘ
organisedBy	Scottish Premier League Ltd ⓘ linked to: Scottish Premier League
precededBy	Scottish Football League Premier Division ⓘ linked to: Scottish Premier Division
promotionTo	none ⓘ
qualificationFor	UEFA Champions League ⓘ UEFA Europa League ⓘ
regionServed	Scotland ⓘ
relegationTo	Scottish First Division ⓘ linked to: Scottish Football League
replacedBy	Scottish Premiership ⓘ linked to: Scottish Premier League Scottish Professional Football League ⓘ
seasonStructure	annual ⓘ
sport	association football ⓘ
televisionPartner	BT Sport ⓘ linked to: BT Sport (various periods) ESPN UK ⓘ Setanta Sports ⓘ Sky Sports ⓘ
topDivisionOf	Scottish football league system ⓘ linked to: Scottish Professional Football League
topScorerRecordHolder	Kris Boyd ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (92)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Dunfermline Athletic F.C. → formerLeague → Scottish Premier League ⓘ

Brendan Rodgers → managedLeague → Scottish Premiership ⓘ

subject linked to: Brendan Rogers