Horizon League
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The Horizon League is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising midwestern universities that compete in a variety of sports.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Horizon League canonical | 33 |
| Horizon League men's basketball | 1 |
| Horizon League women's basketball | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T998496 — 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: Horizon League Context triple: [Wayne State University, isMemberOf, Horizon League]
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A.
Great Midwest Conference
The Great Midwest Conference was a former NCAA Division I athletic conference that operated in the early 1990s, primarily featuring universities from the Midwestern United States before its members were absorbed into Conference USA.
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B.
Mid-American Conference
The Mid-American Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising midwestern U.S. universities and competing in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
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C.
Middle Atlantic Conference
The Middle Atlantic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that has historically organized competition among various mid-Atlantic colleges and universities, primarily at the NCAA Division III level.
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D.
Missouri Valley Conference
The Missouri Valley Conference is one of the oldest NCAA Division I athletic conferences in the United States, historically known for its strong basketball programs and Midwestern membership.
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E.
Patriot League
The Patriot League is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference known for combining competitive sports with strong academic standards, primarily featuring private and U.S. service academy institutions in the northeastern United States.
- 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: Horizon League Target entity description: The Horizon League is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising midwestern universities that compete in a variety of sports.
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Great Midwest Conference
The Great Midwest Conference was a former NCAA Division I athletic conference that operated in the early 1990s, primarily featuring universities from the Midwestern United States before its members were absorbed into Conference USA.
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B.
Mid-American Conference
The Mid-American Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising midwestern U.S. universities and competing in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
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C.
Middle Atlantic Conference
The Middle Atlantic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that has historically organized competition among various mid-Atlantic colleges and universities, primarily at the NCAA Division III level.
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D.
Missouri Valley Conference
The Missouri Valley Conference is one of the oldest NCAA Division I athletic conferences in the United States, historically known for its strong basketball programs and Midwestern membership.
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E.
Patriot League
The Patriot League is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference known for combining competitive sports with strong academic standards, primarily featuring private and U.S. service academy institutions in the northeastern United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA Division I athletic conference
ⓘ
collegiate athletic conference ⓘ |
| abbreviation | Horizon League self-link ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| competitionType |
individual sport competition
ⓘ
team sport competition ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focus | mid-major basketball ⓘ |
| formerlyKnownAs |
Midwestern Collegiate Conference
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surface form:
Midwestern City Conference
|
| governs | conference championships ⓘ |
| grants | automatic NCAA tournament bids in certain sports ⓘ |
| hasGender |
men's sports
ⓘ
women's sports ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Cleveland State University
ⓘ
Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis ⓘ Northern Kentucky University ⓘ Oakland University ⓘ Purdue University Fort Wayne ⓘ Robert Morris University ⓘ University of Detroit Mercy ⓘ University of Illinois at Chicago ⓘ
surface form:
University of Illinois Chicago
University of Wisconsin–Green Bay ⓘ University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee ⓘ Wright State University ⓘ Youngstown State University ⓘ |
| hasTier | mid-major conference ⓘ |
| isPartOf | college sports in the United States ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| sponsor |
baseball
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cross country ⓘ golf ⓘ men's basketball ⓘ men's soccer ⓘ softball ⓘ tennis ⓘ track and field ⓘ volleyball ⓘ women's basketball ⓘ women's soccer ⓘ |
| sport |
baseball
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basketball ⓘ soccer ⓘ softball ⓘ volleyball ⓘ |
| sportGoverningBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| subdivision |
NCAA Division I FCS
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surface form:
NCAA Division I FCS (football, by member alignment)
|
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: Horizon League Description of subject: The Horizon League is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising midwestern universities that compete in a variety of sports.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI, now IU Indianapolis)
→
athleticsConference
→
Horizon League
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subject surface form:
Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
this entity surface form:
Horizon League men's basketball
this entity surface form:
Horizon League women's basketball
subject surface form:
Butler Bulldogs men's basketball
subject surface form:
IUPUI Jaguars
subject surface form:
Green Bay Phoenix men's basketball
subject surface form:
Green Bay Phoenix men's basketball
subject surface form:
Loyola Ramblers men's basketball