AAF
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AAF is the common abbreviation for the Alliance of American Football, a short-lived professional American football league that operated in 2019.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| AAF canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3967508 — 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: AAF Context triple: [Alliance of American Football, abbreviation, AAF]
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A.
AF
AF is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Afghanistan for international standardization and referencing.
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B.
AF
AF is the two-letter IATA airline designator assigned to Air France, the flag carrier of France.
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C.
ADF
ADF is the abbreviation for the Australian Defence Force, the unified military organization responsible for defending Australia and its national interests.
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D.
ASF
ASF is the commonly used acronym for the Apache Software Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports numerous open-source software projects.
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E.
ASF
ASF is a major French motorway concession company responsible for operating and maintaining a significant portion of France’s autoroute network.
- 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: AAF Target entity description: AAF is the common abbreviation for the Alliance of American Football, a short-lived professional American football league that operated in 2019.
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A.
AF
AF is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Afghanistan for international standardization and referencing.
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B.
AF
AF is the two-letter IATA airline designator assigned to Air France, the flag carrier of France.
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C.
ADF
ADF is the abbreviation for the Australian Defence Force, the unified military organization responsible for defending Australia and its national interests.
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D.
ASF
ASF is the commonly used acronym for the Apache Software Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports numerous open-source software projects.
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E.
ASF
ASF is a major French motorway concession company responsible for operating and maintaining a significant portion of France’s autoroute network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | professional American football league ⓘ |
| abbreviation | AAF ⓘ |
| aimedToBe | complementary league to the NFL ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | AAF ⓘ |
| coFounder | Bill Polian ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dissolved | 2019 ⓘ |
| endOfCompetition | 2019 ⓘ |
| founder | Charlie Ebersol ⓘ |
| governingBody | Alliance of American Football organization ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| inception | 2018 ⓘ |
| intendedSchedule | 10-game regular season ⓘ |
| leagueLevel | minor professional league ⓘ |
| numberOfTeams | 8 ⓘ |
| operatedInSeason | 2019 regular season only ⓘ |
| playoffFormat | four-team playoff ⓘ |
| reasonForEnd | suspended operations due to financial difficulties ⓘ |
| ruleModification |
mandatory two-point conversion after touchdowns
ⓘ
no kickoffs ⓘ shorter play clock ⓘ |
| seasonStructure | spring football league ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| standsFor | Alliance of American Football ⓘ |
| startOfCompetition | 2019 ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| televisionPartner |
CBS Sports
ⓘ
NFL Network ⓘ Turner Sports ⓘ |
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: AAF Description of subject: AAF is the common abbreviation for the Alliance of American Football, a short-lived professional American football league that operated in 2019.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Salt Lake Stallions (former)
subject linked to:
Western Conference
subject linked to:
AAF
subject linked to:
AAF