Philadelphia Wings
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The Philadelphia Wings are a professional box lacrosse team based in Philadelphia that competes in the National Lacrosse League.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Philadelphia Wings canonical | 17 |
| Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014) | 1 |
| Philadelphia Wings (indoor lacrosse) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2415981 — 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: Philadelphia Wings Context triple: [Wells Fargo Center, tenant, Philadelphia Wings]
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A.
Philadelphia Freedom
"Philadelphia Freedom" is a 1975 pop song by Elton John, inspired by tennis star Billie Jean King and known for its upbeat, orchestral sound and patriotic themes.
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B.
Philadelphia Independence
Philadelphia Independence was a professional women's soccer team based in the Philadelphia area that competed in the now-defunct Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) league.
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C.
Pittsburgh Pipers
The Pittsburgh Pipers were a professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association (ABA) best known for winning the league’s inaugural championship in 1968.
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D.
Chicago Stags
The Chicago Stags were a professional basketball team based in Chicago that competed in the late 1940s and early NBA era before folding in 1950.
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E.
New York Skyliners
The New York Skyliners were a short-lived professional American football team that played home games at Shea Stadium in New York City during the 1960s.
- 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: Philadelphia Wings Target entity description: The Philadelphia Wings are a professional box lacrosse team based in Philadelphia that competes in the National Lacrosse League.
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A.
Philadelphia Freedom
"Philadelphia Freedom" is a 1975 pop song by Elton John, inspired by tennis star Billie Jean King and known for its upbeat, orchestral sound and patriotic themes.
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B.
Philadelphia Independence
Philadelphia Independence was a professional women's soccer team based in the Philadelphia area that competed in the now-defunct Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) league.
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C.
Pittsburgh Pipers
The Pittsburgh Pipers were a professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association (ABA) best known for winning the league’s inaugural championship in 1968.
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D.
Chicago Stags
The Chicago Stags were a professional basketball team based in Chicago that competed in the late 1940s and early NBA era before folding in 1950.
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E.
New York Skyliners
The New York Skyliners were a short-lived professional American football team that played home games at Shea Stadium in New York City during the 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
professional box lacrosse team
ⓘ
sports team ⓘ |
| basedIn | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| city |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia
|
| conference | NLL Eastern Conference ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| expansionTeamOf | National Lacrosse League ⓘ |
| firstSeason | 2018–19 NLL season ⓘ |
| founded | 2017 ⓘ |
| fullName | Philadelphia Wings ⓘ |
| gender | men's team ⓘ |
| generalManager | Marc Zamarin ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Lacrosse League ⓘ |
| hasPredecessor |
Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014)
ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia Wings
|
| headCoach | Paul Day ⓘ |
| homeArena | Wells Fargo Center ⓘ |
| homeCity | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| league | National Lacrosse League ⓘ |
| mascot | Wingston ⓘ |
| owner | Comcast Spectacor ⓘ |
| playsHomeGamesAt |
Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia
ⓘ
linked to:
Wells Fargo Center
|
| playsIn | National Lacrosse League East Division ⓘ |
| professionalStatus | professional ⓘ |
| region | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| shortName | Wings ⓘ |
| sport | box lacrosse ⓘ |
| teamColors |
black
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| website | https://wingslax.com/ ⓘ |
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: Philadelphia Wings Description of subject: The Philadelphia Wings are a professional box lacrosse team based in Philadelphia that competes in the National Lacrosse League.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.