NCAA men’s soccer
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NCAA men’s soccer is the top level of collegiate men’s soccer competition in the United States, organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and featuring university teams from across the country.
All labels observed (11)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1030154 — 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)
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Target entity: NCAA men’s soccer Context triple: [Oregon State Beavers men’s soccer, playsIn, NCAA men’s soccer]
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NCAA Division I women’s soccer
NCAA Division I women’s soccer is the highest level of intercollegiate women’s soccer in the United States, featuring top university teams competing under the governance of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
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B.
Ivy League men’s soccer
Ivy League men’s soccer is the NCAA Division I athletic conference competition for men’s varsity soccer programs at the eight Ivy League universities in the United States.
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NCAA men’s lacrosse
NCAA men’s lacrosse is the governing body–sanctioned collegiate field lacrosse competition in the United States, featuring varsity programs from universities and colleges across multiple divisions.
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NCAA men’s volleyball
NCAA men’s volleyball is the top level of collegiate men’s volleyball competition in the United States, organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and featuring university teams from across the country.
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NCAA Division I
NCAA Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States, featuring the largest and most competitive college sports programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: NCAA men’s soccer Target entity description: NCAA men’s soccer is the top level of collegiate men’s soccer competition in the United States, organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and featuring university teams from across the country.
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A.
NCAA Division I women’s soccer
NCAA Division I women’s soccer is the highest level of intercollegiate women’s soccer in the United States, featuring top university teams competing under the governance of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
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B.
Ivy League men’s soccer
Ivy League men’s soccer is the NCAA Division I athletic conference competition for men’s varsity soccer programs at the eight Ivy League universities in the United States.
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C.
NCAA men’s lacrosse
NCAA men’s lacrosse is the governing body–sanctioned collegiate field lacrosse competition in the United States, featuring varsity programs from universities and colleges across multiple divisions.
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NCAA men’s volleyball
NCAA men’s volleyball is the top level of collegiate men’s volleyball competition in the United States, organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and featuring university teams from across the country.
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NCAA Division I
NCAA Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States, featuring the largest and most competitive college sports programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college soccer competition
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men’s soccer competition ⓘ |
| affiliation | NCAA member institutions ⓘ |
| ageCategory | college-age players ⓘ |
| competitionFormat | regular season and postseason tournaments ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | top level of collegiate men’s soccer in the United States ⓘ |
| competitionType | amateur ⓘ |
| confersTitle | NCAA men’s soccer national champion ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| distinctFrom |
NAIA
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surface form:
NAIA men’s soccer
NCAA women’s soccer ⓘ NJCAA ⓘ
surface form:
NJCAA men’s soccer
professional soccer leagues in the United States ⓘ |
| gender | men ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| hasChampionship |
NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament
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surface form:
NCAA Division I men’s soccer championship
NCAA Division II men’s soccer championship ⓘ NCAA Division III men’s soccer championship ⓘ |
| includes |
NCAA men’s soccer
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
NCAA Division I men’s soccer
NCAA Division II ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division II men’s soccer
NCAA Division III ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division III men’s soccer
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| organizer | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| participantType |
college teams
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university teams ⓘ |
| region | nationwide ⓘ |
| rulesBasedOn | Laws of the Game of association football ⓘ |
| scope | intercollegiate athletics ⓘ |
| seasonTiming | primarily fall season ⓘ |
| sport |
association football
ⓘ
soccer ⓘ |
| teamType | varsity teams ⓘ |
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: NCAA men’s soccer Description of subject: NCAA men’s soccer is the top level of collegiate men’s soccer competition in the United States, organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and featuring university teams from across the country.
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