Conference USA men's basketball competition
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Conference USA men's basketball competition is a Division I collegiate basketball league in the United States featuring member schools primarily from the South and Midwest regions.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Conference USA men's basketball | 1 |
| Conference USA men's basketball competition canonical | 1 |
| Conference USA men's basketball tournament | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1032938 — 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: Conference USA men's basketball competition Context triple: [Great Midwest Conference, predecessorTo, Conference USA men's basketball competition]
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A.
NCAA basketball
NCAA basketball is the system of college-level basketball in the United States governed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, featuring men’s and women’s competitions that serve as a major pipeline to professional play and include the prominent March Madness tournament.
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B.
SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
The SEC Men's Basketball Tournament is the postseason conference championship event that determines the Southeastern Conference's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
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C.
United States men's national basketball team
The United States men's national basketball team is the dominant international squad representing the U.S. in global competitions like the Olympics and FIBA World Cup, historically featuring many of the greatest basketball players of all time.
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D.
USA Basketball
USA Basketball is the national governing body that oversees and organizes the United States’ men’s and women’s national basketball teams and related international competition programs.
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E.
United States men's national basketball team (youth)
The United States men's national youth basketball team is the junior-level national squad that represents the U.S. in international under-age basketball competitions and develops future stars for the senior national team.
- 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: Conference USA men's basketball competition Target entity description: Conference USA men's basketball competition is a Division I collegiate basketball league in the United States featuring member schools primarily from the South and Midwest regions.
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A.
NCAA basketball
NCAA basketball is the system of college-level basketball in the United States governed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, featuring men’s and women’s competitions that serve as a major pipeline to professional play and include the prominent March Madness tournament.
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B.
SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
The SEC Men's Basketball Tournament is the postseason conference championship event that determines the Southeastern Conference's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
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C.
United States men's national basketball team
The United States men's national basketball team is the dominant international squad representing the U.S. in global competitions like the Olympics and FIBA World Cup, historically featuring many of the greatest basketball players of all time.
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D.
USA Basketball
USA Basketball is the national governing body that oversees and organizes the United States’ men’s and women’s national basketball teams and related international competition programs.
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E.
United States men's national basketball team (youth)
The United States men's national youth basketball team is the junior-level national squad that represents the U.S. in international under-age basketball competitions and develops future stars for the senior national team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | NCAA Division I men's basketball conference ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | major college basketball ⓘ |
| competitionType | conference competition ⓘ |
| conferenceTournament |
Conference USA men's basketball competition
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Conference USA men's basketball tournament
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| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| determines | Conference USA representative in NCAA men's basketball tournament ⓘ |
| division | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| eligibility | NCAA Division I member schools of Conference USA ⓘ |
| establishedAsPartOf | formation of Conference USA in the 1990s ⓘ |
| feedsInto |
NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament
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surface form:
NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
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| gender | men's ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| hasMediaCoverage |
national sports networks
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regional sports networks ⓘ |
| hasMemberInstitutionType |
college
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university ⓘ |
| includesPostseason | conference tournament ⓘ |
| isCollegiateLeague | true ⓘ |
| level | college ⓘ |
| organizer | Conference USA ⓘ |
| partOf | Conference USA ⓘ |
| region |
Midwestern United States
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Southern United States ⓘ |
| regularSeasonDetermines | Conference USA regular-season champion ⓘ |
| rulesFollowed | NCAA men's basketball rules ⓘ |
| seasonFormat | regular season and conference tournament ⓘ |
| seasonTiming | winter sports season ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| teamSport | true ⓘ |
| tournamentChampionReceives | automatic bid to the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament ⓘ |
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: Conference USA men's basketball competition Description of subject: Conference USA men's basketball competition is a Division I collegiate basketball league in the United States featuring member schools primarily from the South and Midwest regions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Conference USA men's basketball competition
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conferenceTournament
→
Conference USA men's basketball competition
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Conference USA men's basketball tournament
this entity surface form:
Conference USA men's basketball