Official Basketball Rules
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The Official Basketball Rules are the globally recognized regulations that define how basketball is played in organized competition under the governance of FIBA.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FIBA rules | 2 |
| Official Basketball Rules of FIBA | 2 |
| FIBA basketball rules | 1 |
| FIBA basketball rules (modified) | 1 |
| FIBA rules (with modifications) | 1 |
| Official Basketball Rules canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1141730 — 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: Official Basketball Rules Context triple: [FIBA, publishes, Official Basketball Rules]
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A.
NBA rules
NBA rules are the official regulations that govern how professional basketball is played, officiated, and organized in the National Basketball Association.
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B.
NBA referees
NBA referees are professional officials responsible for enforcing the league’s rules, maintaining game flow, and ensuring fair play during National Basketball Association games.
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C.
Official Baseball Rules
The Official Baseball Rules is the formal rulebook that defines how professional baseball is played and officiated in Major League Baseball.
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D.
NBA.com
NBA.com is the official website of the National Basketball Association, providing news, scores, statistics, video highlights, and other league-related content.
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E.
NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement
The NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement is the labor contract between the league and the players’ union that sets the rules for player contracts, salaries, trades, free agency, and other key aspects of NBA operations.
- 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: Official Basketball Rules Target entity description: The Official Basketball Rules are the globally recognized regulations that define how basketball is played in organized competition under the governance of FIBA.
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A.
NBA rules
NBA rules are the official regulations that govern how professional basketball is played, officiated, and organized in the National Basketball Association.
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B.
NBA referees
NBA referees are professional officials responsible for enforcing the league’s rules, maintaining game flow, and ensuring fair play during National Basketball Association games.
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C.
Official Baseball Rules
The Official Baseball Rules is the formal rulebook that defines how professional baseball is played and officiated in Major League Baseball.
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D.
NBA.com
NBA.com is the official website of the National Basketball Association, providing news, scores, statistics, video highlights, and other league-related content.
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E.
NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement
The NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement is the labor contract between the league and the players’ union that sets the rules for player contracts, salaries, trades, free agency, and other key aspects of NBA operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball rules
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sport rules ⓘ |
| appliesToSport | basketball ⓘ |
| define |
24-second shot clock rules
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5-second closely guarded rule ⓘ 8-second backcourt rule ⓘ alternating possession rule ⓘ basketball equipment specifications ⓘ bench decorum ⓘ captain responsibilities ⓘ coach responsibilities ⓘ court dimensions ⓘ disqualifying foul ⓘ double dribble violation ⓘ forfeit conditions ⓘ fouls ⓘ free throw procedures ⓘ game timing ⓘ goal counts and cancellations ⓘ goaltending and basket interference ⓘ instant replay procedures ⓘ jump ball procedures ⓘ live ball and dead ball ⓘ overtime procedures ⓘ player disqualification criteria ⓘ player positions and roles ⓘ playing regulations for basketball ⓘ protest procedures ⓘ referee powers and duties ⓘ scoring system ⓘ substitution procedures ⓘ table officials’ duties ⓘ team control ⓘ team foul penalties ⓘ technical foul ⓘ three-point field goal criteria ⓘ throw-in procedures ⓘ timeout rules ⓘ travelling violation ⓘ uniform and number requirements ⓘ unsportsmanlike foul ⓘ violations ⓘ |
| governingBody | FIBA ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| primaryJurisdiction | FIBA member federations ⓘ |
| publisher | FIBA ⓘ |
| scope | global ⓘ |
| updatedBy |
FIBA
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surface form:
FIBA Technical Commission
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| updateFrequency | periodic ⓘ |
| usedIn |
FIBA-sanctioned competitions
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international basketball competitions ⓘ |
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: Official Basketball Rules Description of subject: The Official Basketball Rules are the globally recognized regulations that define how basketball is played in organized competition under the governance of FIBA.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
NBA franchise
this entity surface form:
FIBA basketball rules (modified)
this entity surface form:
FIBA rules
this entity surface form:
FIBA rules (with modifications)
this entity surface form:
FIBA rules
this entity surface form:
Official Basketball Rules of FIBA
subject surface form:
Olympic qualifying tournaments (basketball)
this entity surface form:
Official Basketball Rules of FIBA
this entity surface form:
FIBA basketball rules