Kobelco Steelers
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Kobelco Steelers are a professional Japanese rugby union team based in Kobe that competes in Japan Rugby League One and is known for attracting high-profile international players.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kobelco Steelers canonical | 9 |
| Kobelco Kobe Steelers | 5 |
| Kobe Steel Kobelco Steelers | 3 |
| Kobe Steelers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2137559 — 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: Kobelco Steelers Context triple: [Dan Carter, playedForTeam, Kobelco Steelers]
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A.
Kawasaki Frontale
Kawasaki Frontale is a professional Japanese football club based in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, known for its recent dominance in the J1 League and attacking style of play.
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B.
Albirex Niigata
Albirex Niigata is a professional Japanese football club based in Niigata that competes in the J.League.
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C.
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo is a Japanese professional football club based in Sapporo that competes in the J1 League.
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D.
Vissel Kobe
Vissel Kobe is a professional Japanese football club based in Kobe that competes in the J1 League.
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E.
Ryukyu Golden Kings
The Ryukyu Golden Kings are a professional basketball team based in Okinawa, Japan, known as one of the top clubs in the B.League.
- 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: Kobelco Steelers Target entity description: Kobelco Steelers are a professional Japanese rugby union team based in Kobe that competes in Japan Rugby League One and is known for attracting high-profile international players.
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A.
Kawasaki Frontale
Kawasaki Frontale is a professional Japanese football club based in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, known for its recent dominance in the J1 League and attacking style of play.
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B.
Albirex Niigata
Albirex Niigata is a professional Japanese football club based in Niigata that competes in the J.League.
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C.
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo is a Japanese professional football club based in Sapporo that competes in the J1 League.
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D.
Vissel Kobe
Vissel Kobe is a professional Japanese football club based in Kobe that competes in the J1 League.
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E.
Ryukyu Golden Kings
The Ryukyu Golden Kings are a professional basketball team based in Okinawa, Japan, known as one of the top clubs in the B.League.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
professional sports team
ⓘ
rugby union team ⓘ |
| awayKitColor | white ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Kobe
ⓘ
linked to:
Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
|
| city | Kobe ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | top tier of Japanese rugby union ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| formerLeague | Top League ⓘ |
| foundedAs | company team of Kobe Steel ⓘ |
| fullName |
Kobelco Kobe Steelers
ⓘ
linked to:
Kobelco Steelers
|
| governingBody | Japan Rugby Football Union ⓘ |
| hasNotablePlayer |
Aaron Cruden
ⓘ
Adam Ashley-Cooper ⓘ Andy Ellis ⓘ Atsushi Hiwasa NERFINISHED ⓘ Ben Smith ⓘ Brodie Retallick ⓘ Craig Wing ⓘ Daisuke Ohata NERFINISHED ⓘ Dan Carter ⓘ Masahiro Kunda NERFINISHED ⓘ Ryohei Yamanaka ⓘ Seiji Hirao NERFINISHED ⓘ Takeshi Kizu NERFINISHED ⓘ Toshiaki Hirose NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRival |
Panasonic Wild Knights
ⓘ
Suntory Sungoliath ⓘ |
| homeCountryLeagueSystem | Japanese rugby union league system ⓘ |
| homeKitColor | red ⓘ |
| homeStadium |
Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium
ⓘ
linked to:
Kobe Sports Park
Noevir Stadium Kobe ⓘ
linked to:
Kobe Sports Park
|
| knownFor | attracting high-profile international players ⓘ |
| league |
Japan Rugby League One
ⓘ
linked to:
Japan Rugby Top League
|
| location | Hyogo Prefecture ⓘ |
| nickname | Steelers ⓘ |
| owner | Kobe Steel ⓘ |
| participation |
Japan Rugby League One Division 1
ⓘ
linked to:
Japan Rugby Top League
|
| professionalEra | Top League era onward ⓘ |
| professionalStatus | professional ⓘ |
| region |
Kansai
ⓘ
linked to:
Kansai region
|
| shortName |
Kobe Steelers
ⓘ
linked to:
Kobelco Steelers
|
| sponsor | Kobe Steel ⓘ |
| sponsorIndustry | steel manufacturing ⓘ |
| sport | rugby union ⓘ |
| teamColors |
red
ⓘ
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: Kobelco Steelers Description of subject: Kobelco Steelers are a professional Japanese rugby union team based in Kobe that competes in Japan Rugby League One and is known for attracting high-profile international players.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Steelers
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