American Athletic Conference
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The American Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that sponsors NCAA Division I sports, including the top-tier Football Bowl Subdivision.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| American Athletic Conference canonical | 124 |
| American Athletic Conference (historical) | 1 |
| American Athletic Conference football | 1 |
| American Athletic Conference women's basketball | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T123405 — 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: American Athletic Conference Context triple: [University of Alabama at Birmingham, athleticsConference, American Athletic Conference]
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A.
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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B.
Big Ten Conference
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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C.
New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division III collegiate athletic conference composed primarily of private institutions in the New England region, sponsoring a wide range of men's and women's sports.
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D.
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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E.
Big 12 Conference
The Big 12 Conference is a major NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States, recognized as one of the top-tier "Power Five" leagues in college sports.
- 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: American Athletic Conference Target entity description: The American Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that sponsors NCAA Division I sports, including the top-tier Football Bowl Subdivision.
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A.
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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B.
Big Ten Conference
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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C.
New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division III collegiate athletic conference composed primarily of private institutions in the New England region, sponsoring a wide range of men's and women's sports.
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D.
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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E.
Big 12 Conference
The Big 12 Conference is a major NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States, recognized as one of the top-tier "Power Five" leagues in college sports.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA Division I conference
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NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision conference ⓘ collegiate athletic conference ⓘ |
| abbreviation | AAC ⓘ |
| competitionScope | intercollegiate athletics ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| footballSubdivision | Football Bowl Subdivision ⓘ |
| formerName |
Big East Conference
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surface form:
Big East Conference (football schools)
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| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| hasBasketballLevel |
NCAA Division I
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surface form:
NCAA Division I men's basketball
NCAA basketball ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I women's basketball
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| hasCategory |
College football conferences
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College sports conferences in the United States ⓘ NCAA Division I ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I conferences
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| hasCompetitionLevel | major college athletics ⓘ |
| hasFootballDesignation | Group of Five ⓘ |
| hasFootballLevel | FBS ⓘ |
| hasMemberType |
colleges
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universities ⓘ |
| hasRuleSet | NCAA rules ⓘ |
| includesSportTier | top-tier college football ⓘ |
| isPartOfSystem | U.S. college athletics system ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| regionServed |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| sponsorsGender |
men's sports
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women's sports ⓘ |
| sponsorsSport |
baseball
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cross country ⓘ football ⓘ golf ⓘ men's basketball ⓘ men's soccer ⓘ rowing ⓘ softball ⓘ swimming and diving ⓘ tennis ⓘ track and field ⓘ volleyball ⓘ women's basketball ⓘ women's soccer ⓘ |
| sportLevel | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
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: American Athletic Conference Description of subject: The American Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that sponsors NCAA Division I sports, including the top-tier Football Bowl Subdivision.
Referenced by (127)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Independence Bowl
NCAA Division I women’s soccer conference tournaments
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includesConference
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American Athletic Conference
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