Washington University Bears football
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Washington University Bears football is the collegiate football program representing Washington University in St. Louis in NCAA Division III competition.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| WashU Bears football | 1 |
| Washington (Mo.) Bears football | 1 |
| Washington University Bears football canonical | 1 |
| Washington University Bears football team | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2035861 — 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: Washington University Bears football Context triple: [Washington University Bears, hasTeam, Washington University Bears football]
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A.
Northwest Missouri State Bearcats football
Northwest Missouri State Bearcats football is the college football program of Northwest Missouri State University, known for its successful NCAA Division II history and multiple national championships.
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B.
Brown Bears football
Brown Bears football is the collegiate American football program representing Brown University in NCAA Division I, competing in the Ivy League.
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C.
Missouri State Bears men's basketball
Missouri State Bears men's basketball is the NCAA Division I men's basketball program of Missouri State University, competing in the Missouri Valley Conference and known for its strong mid-major tradition.
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D.
Saint Louis Billikens
The Saint Louis Billikens are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Saint Louis University in NCAA Division I competition.
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E.
Baylor Bears football team
The Baylor Bears football team is the collegiate football program representing Baylor University in Waco, Texas, competing in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the Big 12 Conference.
- 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: Washington University Bears football Target entity description: Washington University Bears football is the collegiate football program representing Washington University in St. Louis in NCAA Division III competition.
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A.
Northwest Missouri State Bearcats football
Northwest Missouri State Bearcats football is the college football program of Northwest Missouri State University, known for its successful NCAA Division II history and multiple national championships.
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B.
Brown Bears football
Brown Bears football is the collegiate American football program representing Brown University in NCAA Division I, competing in the Ivy League.
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C.
Missouri State Bears men's basketball
Missouri State Bears men's basketball is the NCAA Division I men's basketball program of Missouri State University, competing in the Missouri Valley Conference and known for its strong mid-major tradition.
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D.
Saint Louis Billikens
The Saint Louis Billikens are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Saint Louis University in NCAA Division I competition.
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E.
Baylor Bears football team
The Baylor Bears football team is the collegiate football program representing Baylor University in Waco, Texas, competing in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the Big 12 Conference.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Washington University Bears football Description of subject: Washington University Bears football is the collegiate football program representing Washington University in St. Louis in NCAA Division III competition.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Washington University Bears
this entity surface form:
Washington University Bears football team
Washington University Bears football
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shortName
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Washington University Bears football
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
WashU Bears football
this entity surface form:
Washington (Mo.) Bears football