Big Ten Conference
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The Big Ten Conference is a major collegiate athletic conference in the United States, known for its large research universities and prominent NCAA Division I sports programs, especially in football and basketball.
All labels observed (38)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T122212 — 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: Big Ten Conference Context triple: [Power Five, includesConference, Big Ten Conference]
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Pac-12 Conference
The Pac-12 Conference is a major collegiate athletic conference in the western United States, known for sponsoring top-tier NCAA Division I sports programs across multiple universities.
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Pac-12 Network
Pac-12 Network is a sports-focused television channel dedicated to broadcasting collegiate athletics and related programming from the universities of the Pac-12 Conference.
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Southeastern Conference
The Southeastern Conference is a prominent collegiate athletic conference in the United States, known especially for its powerhouse football programs and member universities primarily located in the southeastern region of the country.
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Atlantic Coast Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference is a major collegiate athletic conference in the United States, known for sponsoring high-level competition in numerous sports among universities primarily located along the East Coast.
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Sun Belt
The Sun Belt is a region of the United States stretching across the South and Southwest, known for its warm climate, rapid population growth, and significant economic development.
- 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: Big Ten Conference Target entity description: The Big Ten Conference is a major collegiate athletic conference in the United States, known for its large research universities and prominent NCAA Division I sports programs, especially in football and basketball.
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A.
Pac-12 Conference
The Pac-12 Conference is a major collegiate athletic conference in the western United States, known for sponsoring top-tier NCAA Division I sports programs across multiple universities.
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B.
Pac-12 Network
Pac-12 Network is a sports-focused television channel dedicated to broadcasting collegiate athletics and related programming from the universities of the Pac-12 Conference.
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C.
Southeastern Conference
The Southeastern Conference is a prominent collegiate athletic conference in the United States, known especially for its powerhouse football programs and member universities primarily located in the southeastern region of the country.
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Atlantic Coast Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference is a major collegiate athletic conference in the United States, known for sponsoring high-level competition in numerous sports among universities primarily located along the East Coast.
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Sun Belt
The Sun Belt is a region of the United States stretching across the South and Southwest, known for its warm climate, rapid population growth, and significant economic development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Big Ten Conference Description of subject: The Big Ten Conference is a major collegiate athletic conference in the United States, known for its large research universities and prominent NCAA Division I sports programs, especially in football and basketball.
Referenced by (484)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Wisconsin Badgers
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Wisconsin Badgers
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Wisconsin Badgers
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Wisconsin Badgers
subject surface form:
Wisconsin Badgers
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Big Ten West Division (football, before 2024 realignment)
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Rutgers Scarlet Knights women's volleyball
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Rutgers Scarlet Knights women's volleyball
this entity surface form:
Big Ten women's volleyball
this entity surface form:
Big Ten Conference (historical)
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Big Ten Conference baseball
this entity surface form:
Big Ten Conference men's basketball