Shanghai United F.C.
E738178
Shanghai United F.C. was a professional football club based in Shanghai that competed in the Chinese football league system before eventually merging and disappearing as a separate entity.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shanghai COSCO Huili F.C. | 1 |
| Shanghai United F.C. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8078370 — 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: Shanghai United F.C. Context triple: [Shanghai Derby, formerClubInvolved, Shanghai United F.C.]
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A.
Shanghai Shenxin F.C.
Shanghai Shenxin F.C. was a professional Chinese football club based in Shanghai that competed in the Chinese Super League and participated in the city’s intense local derbies.
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B.
Shanghai Shenhua F.C.
Shanghai Shenhua F.C. is a professional Chinese football club based in Shanghai that competes in the Chinese Super League and is one of the country’s most historically prominent teams.
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C.
Shanghai SIPG F.C.
Shanghai SIPG F.C. is a professional Chinese football club based in Shanghai that competes in the Chinese Super League and is known for being one of the country's most successful and high-profile teams.
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D.
Shenzhen FC
Shenzhen FC is a professional Chinese football club based in Shenzhen that competes in the country’s top leagues and has attracted notable international figures such as Clarence Seedorf to its managerial ranks.
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E.
Hangzhou Greentown F.C.
Hangzhou Greentown F.C. is a professional Chinese football club based in Hangzhou that has competed in the country’s top leagues and attracted notable international players.
- 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: Shanghai United F.C. Target entity description: Shanghai United F.C. was a professional football club based in Shanghai that competed in the Chinese football league system before eventually merging and disappearing as a separate entity.
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A.
Shanghai Shenxin F.C.
Shanghai Shenxin F.C. was a professional Chinese football club based in Shanghai that competed in the Chinese Super League and participated in the city’s intense local derbies.
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B.
Shanghai Shenhua F.C.
Shanghai Shenhua F.C. is a professional Chinese football club based in Shanghai that competes in the Chinese Super League and is one of the country’s most historically prominent teams.
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C.
Shanghai SIPG F.C.
Shanghai SIPG F.C. is a professional Chinese football club based in Shanghai that competes in the Chinese Super League and is known for being one of the country's most successful and high-profile teams.
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D.
Shenzhen FC
Shenzhen FC is a professional Chinese football club based in Shenzhen that competes in the country’s top leagues and has attracted notable international figures such as Clarence Seedorf to its managerial ranks.
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E.
Hangzhou Greentown F.C.
Hangzhou Greentown F.C. is a professional Chinese football club based in Hangzhou that has competed in the country’s top leagues and attracted notable international players.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football club
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defunct football club ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| dissolutionReason | merger with another club ⓘ |
| league | Chinese football league system ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Shanghai ⓘ |
| professionalStatus | professional ⓘ |
| separateEntityStatus | no longer exists as a separate entity ⓘ |
| sport | football ⓘ |
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: Shanghai United F.C. Description of subject: Shanghai United F.C. was a professional football club based in Shanghai that competed in the Chinese football league system before eventually merging and disappearing as a separate entity.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Shanghai United F.C.