Pony Excess

E193320

documentary film sports documentary television film

Pony Excess is an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary chronicling the rise, scandal, and NCAA "death penalty" of Southern Methodist University’s football program in the 1980s.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Pony Excess canonical	2

Statements (42)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	documentary film ⓘ sports documentary ⓘ television film ⓘ
about	NCAA sanctions ⓘ college football ⓘ pay-for-play scandal ⓘ
basedOnEvent	NCAA death penalty imposed on SMU football ⓘ SMU football NCAA sanctions ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
depictsOrganization	National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ Southern Methodist University ⓘ
depictsSportsTeam	SMU Mustangs ⓘ surface form: SMU Mustangs football
distributor	ESPN ⓘ
focusesOnPeriod	1980s ⓘ
genre	sports documentary ⓘ television documentary ⓘ
hasAudience	college football fans ⓘ sports fans ⓘ
hasFormat	DVD release ⓘ digital video ⓘ television broadcast ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
mainSubject	NCAA death penalty ⓘ SMU Mustangs ⓘ surface form: Southern Methodist University Mustangs football program Southern Methodist University football scandal ⓘ college football recruiting violations ⓘ
medium	television ⓘ
network	ESPN ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
originalNetwork	ESPN ⓘ
partOfSeries	30 for 30 ⓘ
portraysTheme	NCAA enforcement ⓘ consequences of rule violations in college athletics ⓘ corruption in college sports ⓘ
producer	ESPN ⓘ surface form: ESPN Films
productionCompany	ESPN ⓘ surface form: ESPN Films
setInLocation	Dallas, Texas ⓘ Southern Methodist University ⓘ surface form: Southern Methodist University campus
sport	American football ⓘ
subjectOf	sports journalism coverage ⓘ
title	Pony Excess self-link ⓘ

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: Pony Excess
Description of subject: Pony Excess is an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary chronicling the rise, scandal, and NCAA "death penalty" of Southern Methodist University’s football program in the 1980s.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

30 for 30 → notableEpisode → Pony Excess ⓘ

Pony Excess → title → Pony Excess self-link ⓘ