WorldTeam
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WorldTeam is the highest tier of professional road cycling teams, licensed by the UCI and granted automatic entry into the sport’s premier races, including the Grand Tours.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WorldTeam canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3768823 — 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)
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Target entity: WorldTeam Context triple: [Grand Tours, participantLevel, WorldTeam]
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A.
North America All-Stars
North America All-Stars was a team composed of NHL players from the United States and Canada that competed in the league’s late-1990s North America vs. World All-Star Game format.
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B.
The Team
The Team is the English translation of "Die Mannschaft," the widely used nickname for the German national football team.
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C.
Oracle Team USA
Oracle Team USA is an American yacht racing team best known for its high-profile participation and victories in the America’s Cup under the backing of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.
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D.
Team USA
Team USA is the collective name for the athletes and teams that represent the United States in the Olympic and Paralympic Games and related international competitions.
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E.
Tri Nations
Tri Nations was an annual international rugby union tournament contested by the national teams of New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa before its expansion into The Rugby Championship.
- 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: WorldTeam Target entity description: WorldTeam is the highest tier of professional road cycling teams, licensed by the UCI and granted automatic entry into the sport’s premier races, including the Grand Tours.
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A.
North America All-Stars
North America All-Stars was a team composed of NHL players from the United States and Canada that competed in the league’s late-1990s North America vs. World All-Star Game format.
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B.
The Team
The Team is the English translation of "Die Mannschaft," the widely used nickname for the German national football team.
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C.
Oracle Team USA
Oracle Team USA is an American yacht racing team best known for its high-profile participation and victories in the America’s Cup under the backing of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.
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D.
Team USA
Team USA is the collective name for the athletes and teams that represent the United States in the Olympic and Paralympic Games and related international competitions.
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E.
Tri Nations
Tri Nations was an annual international rugby union tournament contested by the national teams of New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa before its expansion into The Rugby Championship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
UCI team status
ⓘ
professional cycling team category ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
UCI WorldTeam
ⓘ
linked to:
UCI WorldTeams
WorldTeam ⓘ |
| appliesTo | trade teams rather than national teams ⓘ |
| associatedWith | UCI World Ranking ⓘ |
| categoryComparedTo |
higher than UCI Continental Team
ⓘ
higher than UCI ProTeam ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | highest tier of professional road cycling teams ⓘ |
| eligibleFor |
Giro d’Italia automatic invitation
ⓘ
Tour de France automatic invitation ⓘ Vuelta a España automatic invitation ⓘ |
| governingBody | Union Cycliste Internationale ⓘ |
| governsSeason | UCI WorldTour calendar ⓘ |
| grants |
automatic entry into Grand Tours
ⓘ
automatic entry into UCI WorldTour events ⓘ automatic entry into major one‑day Classics ⓘ |
| hasEconomicModel | sponsorship‑based trade team ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
official regulations published in English
ⓘ
official regulations published in French ⓘ |
| hasObjective | participation in top‑level professional road races ⓘ |
| hasSubcategory |
men’s UCI WorldTeams
ⓘ
linked to:
UCI WorldTeams
women’s UCI Women’s WorldTeams ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfLicense | UCI WorldTour license ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Union Cycliste Internationale ⓘ |
| licensingPeriod | multi‑year UCI license ⓘ |
| partOf | UCI WorldTour ⓘ |
| regulates |
anti‑doping compliance obligations
ⓘ
minimum rider contracts ⓘ team staffing requirements ⓘ |
| replaced | UCI ProTour team status ⓘ |
| requires |
administrative criteria
ⓘ
ethical criteria ⓘ minimum budget and financial guarantees ⓘ minimum number of support staff ⓘ organizational criteria ⓘ registration with a specific national federation ⓘ sporting criteria based on team performance ⓘ team doctor and medical structure ⓘ team manager and sports directors ⓘ |
| scope | international ⓘ |
| sport | road cycling ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
UCI anti‑doping rules
ⓘ
UCI equipment regulations ⓘ UCI ethical code ⓘ UCI financial audits ⓘ |
| teamSizeRule | maximum number of riders defined by UCI regulations ⓘ |
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: WorldTeam Description of subject: WorldTeam is the highest tier of professional road cycling teams, licensed by the UCI and granted automatic entry into the sport’s premier races, including the Grand Tours.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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