Minneapolis Regional
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The Minneapolis Regional was one of the four geographic brackets in the 2006 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, hosting a subset of teams competing to advance to the Final Four.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minneapolis Regional canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12823989 — 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: Minneapolis Regional Context triple: [2006 NCAA Tournament, region, Minneapolis Regional]
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A.
Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport
Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport is a major U.S. airport in Minnesota that serves the Twin Cities region and functions as a key domestic and international gateway.
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B.
Mankato Regional Airport
Mankato Regional Airport is a public airport serving the city of Mankato and the surrounding region in south-central Minnesota.
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C.
Duluth International Airport
Duluth International Airport is a public airport in Duluth, Minnesota, serving as a regional hub for commercial, cargo, and general aviation in northeastern Minnesota and the western Lake Superior region.
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D.
Jackson–Evers International Airport
Jackson–Evers International Airport is the primary commercial airport serving the Jackson, Mississippi metropolitan area and the largest airport in the state.
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E.
Des Moines International Airport
Des Moines International Airport is the primary commercial airport serving the Des Moines metropolitan area and central Iowa, offering domestic flights and acting as a regional air travel hub.
- 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: Minneapolis Regional Target entity description: The Minneapolis Regional was one of the four geographic brackets in the 2006 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, hosting a subset of teams competing to advance to the Final Four.
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A.
Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport
Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport is a major U.S. airport in Minnesota that serves the Twin Cities region and functions as a key domestic and international gateway.
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B.
Mankato Regional Airport
Mankato Regional Airport is a public airport serving the city of Mankato and the surrounding region in south-central Minnesota.
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C.
Duluth International Airport
Duluth International Airport is a public airport in Duluth, Minnesota, serving as a regional hub for commercial, cargo, and general aviation in northeastern Minnesota and the western Lake Superior region.
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D.
Jackson–Evers International Airport
Jackson–Evers International Airport is the primary commercial airport serving the Jackson, Mississippi metropolitan area and the largest airport in the state.
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E.
Des Moines International Airport
Des Moines International Airport is the primary commercial airport serving the Des Moines metropolitan area and central Iowa, offering domestic flights and acting as a regional air travel hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA basketball tournament regional
ⓘ
sports tournament bracket ⓘ |
| advancesTo | Final Four NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bracketType | regional bracket ⓘ |
| competitionFormat | single-elimination ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| governingBodyAbbreviation | NCAA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOutcome | regional champion qualifies for Final Four ⓘ |
| hostCity | Minneapolis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostState | Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesRounds |
Elite Eight
ⓘ
Sweet Sixteen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSubsetOf | overall NCAA tournament field ⓘ |
| numberOfRegionalsInTournament | 4 GENERATED ⓘ |
| oneOfRegionalsInTournament | four geographic brackets ⓘ |
| partOf | 2006 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
to determine a Final Four participant
ⓘ
to determine a regional champion ⓘ |
| role | geographic bracket ⓘ |
| selectionMethod | NCAA tournament selection and seeding process ⓘ |
| sport | men’s college basketball ⓘ |
| temporalContext | 2005–06 NCAA men’s basketball season ⓘ |
| tournamentDivision | Division I ⓘ |
| tournamentGender | men’s ⓘ |
| tournamentName | NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tournamentRoundScope | regional rounds ⓘ |
| tournamentYear | 2006 ⓘ |
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: Minneapolis Regional Description of subject: The Minneapolis Regional was one of the four geographic brackets in the 2006 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, hosting a subset of teams competing to advance to the Final Four.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.