Law 9
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Law 9 is a section of the Laws of the Game in association football that defines when the ball is considered in play or out of play during a match.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Law 9 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6611310 — 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: Law 9 Context triple: [The Ball In and Out of Play, abbreviatedAs, Law 9]
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A.
Ley
Ley is an alternative spelling of the given name Leigh, used as a personal name or surname in English-speaking contexts.
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B.
Laws
Laws is one of Plato’s late philosophical dialogues, presenting a detailed exploration of legal theory, political organization, and the ideal constitution for a well-ordered city.
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C.
Recht
Recht is a village and district within the municipality of Sankt Vith in the German-speaking region of eastern Belgium.
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D.
LAWA
LAWA is the municipal agency that owns and operates Los Angeles’ system of airports, including Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
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E.
Law 4,595 of 1964
Law 4,595 of 1964 is the Brazilian legislation that established and structured the country’s National Financial System, including the creation and regulation of the Central Bank of Brazil.
- 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: Law 9 Target entity description: Law 9 is a section of the Laws of the Game in association football that defines when the ball is considered in play or out of play during a match.
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A.
Ley
Ley is an alternative spelling of the given name Leigh, used as a personal name or surname in English-speaking contexts.
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B.
Laws
Laws is one of Plato’s late philosophical dialogues, presenting a detailed exploration of legal theory, political organization, and the ideal constitution for a well-ordered city.
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C.
Recht
Recht is a village and district within the municipality of Sankt Vith in the German-speaking region of eastern Belgium.
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D.
LAWA
LAWA is the municipal agency that owns and operates Los Angeles’ system of airports, including Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
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E.
Law 4,595 of 1964
Law 4,595 of 1964 is the Brazilian legislation that established and structured the country’s National Financial System, including the creation and regulation of the Central Bank of Brazil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Law of the Game (association football) ⓘ |
| affects |
foul and misconduct decisions
ⓘ
offside decisions ⓘ |
| appliesDuring |
extra time
ⓘ
kicks from the penalty mark ⓘ normal play ⓘ |
| appliesTo | association football ⓘ |
| criterion |
ball crossing boundary lines on the ground or in the air
ⓘ
ball wholly crossing the goal line ⓘ ball wholly crossing the touchline ⓘ referee stopping play ⓘ |
| defines |
moments when the ball is in play
ⓘ
moments when the ball is out of play ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
IFAB Laws of the Game publication
ⓘ
linked to:
Laws of the Game of association football
|
| governs |
ball in play
ⓘ
ball out of play ⓘ |
| implementedBy |
assistant referees
ⓘ
referee ⓘ video assistant referee ⓘ |
| issuedBy | International Football Association Board ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| partOf |
Laws of the Game (association football)
ⓘ
linked to:
Laws of the Game of association football
|
| relatedTo |
Law 1
ⓘ
Law 10 ⓘ Law 12 ⓘ |
| sport |
football
ⓘ
soccer ⓘ |
| states |
the ball is in play at all other times
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the ball is out of play when it has wholly crossed the goal line or touchline ⓘ the ball is out of play when the referee stops play ⓘ |
| usedFor |
determining when restarts are required
ⓘ
determining whether a goal is valid ⓘ |
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: Law 9 Description of subject: Law 9 is a section of the Laws of the Game in association football that defines when the ball is considered in play or out of play during a match.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.