West Alabama Tigers football team
E186904
The West Alabama Tigers football team is the collegiate football program of the University of West Alabama, competing in NCAA Division II and known for producing NFL talent such as cornerback Malcolm Butler.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| West Alabama Tigers | 1 |
| West Alabama Tigers football | 1 |
| West Alabama Tigers football team canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1640423 — 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: West Alabama Tigers football team Context triple: [Malcolm Butler, playedCollegeFootballFor, West Alabama Tigers football team]
-
A.
UAB Blazers football team
The UAB Blazers football team is the NCAA Division I FBS college football program representing the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Conference USA.
-
B.
Auburn Tigers football
Auburn Tigers football is the intercollegiate American football program of Auburn University, known for its storied history in the Southeastern Conference and intense rivalry with the Alabama Crimson Tide.
-
C.
Alabama Crimson Tide football
Alabama Crimson Tide football is the University of Alabama’s storied college football program, renowned for its numerous national championships, legendary coaches, and status as one of the most successful teams in NCAA history.
-
D.
Texas Southern Tigers football
Texas Southern Tigers football is the college football program of Texas Southern University, a historically Black university in Houston, Texas, and the team where Pro Football Hall of Famer Michael Strahan played.
-
E.
Grambling State Tigers football
Grambling State Tigers football is the college football program of Grambling State University, historically renowned as a powerhouse in HBCU football and for its legendary longtime coach Eddie Robinson.
- 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: West Alabama Tigers football team Target entity description: The West Alabama Tigers football team is the collegiate football program of the University of West Alabama, competing in NCAA Division II and known for producing NFL talent such as cornerback Malcolm Butler.
-
A.
UAB Blazers football team
The UAB Blazers football team is the NCAA Division I FBS college football program representing the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Conference USA.
-
B.
Auburn Tigers football
Auburn Tigers football is the intercollegiate American football program of Auburn University, known for its storied history in the Southeastern Conference and intense rivalry with the Alabama Crimson Tide.
-
C.
Alabama Crimson Tide football
Alabama Crimson Tide football is the University of Alabama’s storied college football program, renowned for its numerous national championships, legendary coaches, and status as one of the most successful teams in NCAA history.
-
D.
Texas Southern Tigers football
Texas Southern Tigers football is the college football program of Texas Southern University, a historically Black university in Houston, Texas, and the team where Pro Football Hall of Famer Michael Strahan played.
-
E.
Grambling State Tigers football
Grambling State Tigers football is the college football program of Grambling State University, historically renowned as a powerhouse in HBCU football and for its legendary longtime coach Eddie Robinson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
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: West Alabama Tigers football team Description of subject: The West Alabama Tigers football team is the collegiate football program of the University of West Alabama, competing in NCAA Division II and known for producing NFL talent such as cornerback Malcolm Butler.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
West Alabama Tigers football team
→
shortName
→
West Alabama Tigers football team
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
West Alabama Tigers
this entity surface form:
West Alabama Tigers football