Pontiac Cobras (soccer)
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The Pontiac Cobras were a minor league soccer team based in Pontiac, Michigan, that competed in the lower tiers of U.S. soccer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pontiac Cobras (soccer) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2673031 — 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: Pontiac Cobras (soccer) Context triple: [Pontiac, Michigan, hasMinorLeagueSportsHistory, Pontiac Cobras (soccer)]
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A.
Motor Action F.C.
Motor Action F.C. is a Zimbabwean professional football club best known for competing in the country’s top-flight league and being based in the city of Mutare.
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B.
Witney United F.C.
Witney United F.C. was an English football club based in Witney, Oxfordshire, that succeeded the former Witney Town F.C. in local non-league competition.
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C.
Empire Soccer Club
Empire Soccer Club was the original name of the Major League Soccer franchise that later became known as the New York/New Jersey MetroStars and eventually the New York Red Bulls.
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D.
Atlas F.C.
Atlas F.C. is a historic professional football club from Guadalajara, Mexico, competing in Liga MX and known for its passionate fan base and long-standing local rivalries.
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E.
Club 152
Club 152 is a popular multi-level bar and live music venue on Memphis’s historic Beale Street, known for its energetic nightlife and performances.
- 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: Pontiac Cobras (soccer) Target entity description: The Pontiac Cobras were a minor league soccer team based in Pontiac, Michigan, that competed in the lower tiers of U.S. soccer.
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A.
Motor Action F.C.
Motor Action F.C. is a Zimbabwean professional football club best known for competing in the country’s top-flight league and being based in the city of Mutare.
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B.
Witney United F.C.
Witney United F.C. was an English football club based in Witney, Oxfordshire, that succeeded the former Witney Town F.C. in local non-league competition.
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C.
Empire Soccer Club
Empire Soccer Club was the original name of the Major League Soccer franchise that later became known as the New York/New Jersey MetroStars and eventually the New York Red Bulls.
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D.
Atlas F.C.
Atlas F.C. is a historic professional football club from Guadalajara, Mexico, competing in Liga MX and known for its passionate fan base and long-standing local rivalries.
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E.
Club 152
Club 152 is a popular multi-level bar and live music venue on Memphis’s historic Beale Street, known for its energetic nightlife and performances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football club
ⓘ
defunct soccer club ⓘ |
| competitiveScope | United States soccer league system ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| fullName | Pontiac Cobras ⓘ |
| homeCountryFIFA | USA ⓘ |
| leagueLevel | lower tiers of U.S. soccer ⓘ |
| location | Pontiac, Michigan ⓘ |
| playedIn | lower-division U.S. soccer competitions ⓘ |
| sport | soccer ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan (most of state)
|
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| teamType | minor league soccer team ⓘ |
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: Pontiac Cobras (soccer) Description of subject: The Pontiac Cobras were a minor league soccer team based in Pontiac, Michigan, that competed in the lower tiers of U.S. soccer.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.