Sooner Schooner
E177500
The Sooner Schooner is a covered wagon pulled by ponies that serves as the University of Oklahoma’s iconic game-day mascot, symbolizing the state’s pioneer and land run heritage.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sooner Schooner canonical | 7 |
| The Schooner | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1562004 — 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: Sooner Schooner Context triple: [University of Oklahoma, mascot, Sooner Schooner]
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A.
Bell Rock
Bell Rock is a small, partially submerged reef in the North Sea off the coast of Angus, Scotland, best known for the historic Bell Rock Lighthouse built upon it.
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B.
M/V LeConte
M/V LeConte is an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger and vehicle service to coastal communities in Southeast Alaska.
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C.
The Barque Future
The Barque Future is a novel by Norwegian author Jonas Lie that explores maritime life and social issues through the story of a trading vessel and its crew.
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D.
USS Constitution
USS Constitution is a historic wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy, famed for her victories in the War of 1812 and recognized as the world's oldest commissioned warship still afloat.
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E.
SS Nomadic
SS Nomadic is a preserved early 20th-century tender ship built to serve RMS Titanic and now a historic museum vessel in Belfast.
- 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: Sooner Schooner Target entity description: The Sooner Schooner is a covered wagon pulled by ponies that serves as the University of Oklahoma’s iconic game-day mascot, symbolizing the state’s pioneer and land run heritage.
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A.
Bell Rock
Bell Rock is a small, partially submerged reef in the North Sea off the coast of Angus, Scotland, best known for the historic Bell Rock Lighthouse built upon it.
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B.
M/V LeConte
M/V LeConte is an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger and vehicle service to coastal communities in Southeast Alaska.
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C.
The Barque Future
The Barque Future is a novel by Norwegian author Jonas Lie that explores maritime life and social issues through the story of a trading vessel and its crew.
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D.
USS Constitution
USS Constitution is a historic wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy, famed for her victories in the War of 1812 and recognized as the world's oldest commissioned warship still afloat.
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E.
SS Nomadic
SS Nomadic is a preserved early 20th-century tender ship built to serve RMS Titanic and now a historic museum vessel in Belfast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
covered wagon
ⓘ
mascot ⓘ sports mascot ⓘ university mascot ⓘ |
| affiliation | University of Oklahoma ⓘ |
| appearance |
home football games
ⓘ
touchdown celebrations ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Big 12 Conference
ⓘ
Boomer Sooner ⓘ
surface form:
Boomer Sooner fight song
Football Bowl Subdivision ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS football
Oklahoma Sooners fans ⓘ Oklahoma Sooners ⓘ
surface form:
Oklahoma Sooners football
|
| category |
College football mascots
ⓘ
University of Oklahoma traditions ⓘ |
| color |
cream
ⓘ
crimson ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasPart |
covered wagon
ⓘ
team of ponies ⓘ |
| heritage |
pioneer era of Oklahoma
ⓘ
settlement of Oklahoma Territory ⓘ |
| homeVenue | Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Oklahoma land runs
ⓘ
prairie schooner ⓘ |
| introduced | 1964 ⓘ |
| mascotType | live mascot ⓘ |
| mediaType | iconic symbol of University of Oklahoma athletics ⓘ |
| nickname |
Sooner Schooner
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Schooner
|
| notableIncident | tipped over during a game in 2019 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Ruf/Neks ⓘ |
| owner | University of Oklahoma ⓘ |
| pulledBy |
Welsh ponies
ⓘ
ponies ⓘ |
| represents |
Oklahoma Sooners
ⓘ
surface form:
University of Oklahoma Sooners
|
| safetyChangeAfter | 2019 tip-over incident ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| state | Oklahoma ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Oklahoma land run heritage
ⓘ
Oklahoma pioneer heritage ⓘ |
| tradition | driving onto the field after Oklahoma scores ⓘ |
| university | University of Oklahoma ⓘ |
| usedFor |
game-day entertainment
ⓘ
school spirit ⓘ |
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: Sooner Schooner Description of subject: The Sooner Schooner is a covered wagon pulled by ponies that serves as the University of Oklahoma’s iconic game-day mascot, symbolizing the state’s pioneer and land run heritage.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Oklahoma Sooners football
this entity surface form:
The Schooner