U.S. Triple Crown
E478704
The U.S. Triple Crown is a prestigious series of three American Thoroughbred horse races—comprising the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes—won by only a select few three-year-old champions.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing | 2 |
| United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing | 2 |
| Triple Crown | 1 |
| Triple Crown Series | 1 |
| U.S. Triple Crown canonical | 1 |
| United States Triple Crown | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4902489 — 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: U.S. Triple Crown Context triple: [Belmont Stakes, partOf, U.S. Triple Crown]
-
A.
Triple Crown
The Triple Crown is a prestigious baseball achievement awarded to a player who leads a league in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in during a single season.
-
B.
Trotting Triple Crown
The Trotting Triple Crown is a prestigious series of major harness racing events for trotters in North America.
-
C.
1967 Triple Crown
The 1967 Triple Crown is a rare Major League Baseball achievement signifying that Carl Yastrzemski led the American League in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in during the 1967 season.
-
D.
Kentucky Derby
The Kentucky Derby is a famous annual American Thoroughbred horse race held in Louisville that serves as the first leg of the Triple Crown.
-
E.
Breeders' Cup
The Breeders' Cup is an annual series of elite Thoroughbred horse races that serves as one of the sport’s premier international championship events.
- 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: U.S. Triple Crown Target entity description: The U.S. Triple Crown is a prestigious series of three American Thoroughbred horse races—comprising the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes—won by only a select few three-year-old champions.
-
A.
Triple Crown
The Triple Crown is a prestigious baseball achievement awarded to a player who leads a league in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in during a single season.
-
B.
Trotting Triple Crown
The Trotting Triple Crown is a prestigious series of major harness racing events for trotters in North America.
-
C.
1967 Triple Crown
The 1967 Triple Crown is a rare Major League Baseball achievement signifying that Carl Yastrzemski led the American League in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in during the 1967 season.
-
D.
Kentucky Derby
The Kentucky Derby is a famous annual American Thoroughbred horse race held in Louisville that serves as the first leg of the Triple Crown.
-
E.
Breeders' Cup
The Breeders' Cup is an annual series of elite Thoroughbred horse races that serves as one of the sport’s premier international championship events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
horse racing series
ⓘ
sporting achievement ⓘ |
| ageRestriction | three years ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| americanPharoahMilestone | American Pharoah ended a 37-year Triple Crown drought in 2015 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedBreed | Thoroughbred NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belmontStakesLocation | Belmont Park, Elmont, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| consistsOf |
Belmont Stakes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kentucky Derby NERFINISHED ⓘ Preakness Stakes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| culturalSignificance | major event in American sports culture ⓘ |
| distanceVariation | each leg has a different distance ⓘ |
| eligibility | three-year-old Thoroughbreds ⓘ |
| firstLeg | Kentucky Derby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstWinner | Sir Barton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genderEligibility | colts and fillies ⓘ |
| governingBreedRegistry | The Jockey Club (U.S.) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inauguralYear | 1919 ⓘ |
| justifyMilestone | Justify won the Triple Crown in 2018 while undefeated NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kentuckyDerbyLocation | Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage | national ⓘ |
| notableWinner |
Affirmed
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
American Pharoah NERFINISHED ⓘ Assault NERFINISHED ⓘ Citation NERFINISHED ⓘ Count Fleet NERFINISHED ⓘ Gallant Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ Justify NERFINISHED ⓘ Omaha NERFINISHED ⓘ Seattle Slew NERFINISHED ⓘ Secretariat NERFINISHED ⓘ War Admiral NERFINISHED ⓘ Whirlaway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfWinners | 13 ⓘ |
| preaknessStakesLocation | Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| prestige | one of the highest honors in American horse racing ⓘ |
| qualification | must win Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes in same year ⓘ |
| raceType | Thoroughbred flat racing ⓘ |
| rarity | rarely achieved ⓘ |
| region | North America ⓘ |
| secondLeg | Preakness Stakes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| secretariatRecord | Secretariat holds multiple Triple Crown race records ⓘ |
| sport | horse racing ⓘ |
| surface | dirt ⓘ |
| thirdLeg | Belmont Stakes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typicalSeason | spring ⓘ |
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: U.S. Triple Crown Description of subject: The U.S. Triple Crown is a prestigious series of three American Thoroughbred horse races—comprising the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes—won by only a select few three-year-old champions.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Belmont Park
subject linked to:
Secretariat
linked to: U.S. Triple Crown
linked to: U.S. Triple Crown
linked to: U.S. Triple Crown
linked to: U.S. Triple Crown
horse racing Triple Crown
→
countrySpecificFormat
→
United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing
ⓘ
linked to: U.S. Triple Crown
linked to: U.S. Triple Crown
linked to: U.S. Triple Crown