Penn State Nittany Lions
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The Penn State Nittany Lions are the athletic teams representing Pennsylvania State University in NCAA Division I sports, known especially for their prominent football program.
All labels observed (11)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2098920 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Penn State Nittany Lions Context triple: [Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, affiliation, Penn State Nittany Lions]
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Penn State Nittany Lions football
Penn State Nittany Lions football is the college football program of Pennsylvania State University, a historically prominent Big Ten team known for its large fan base, storied traditions, and success under longtime coach Joe Paterno.
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Penn State Nittany Lions men's basketball
The Penn State Nittany Lions men's basketball team represents Pennsylvania State University in NCAA Division I competition as a member of the Big Ten Conference.
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Ohio State Buckeyes
The Ohio State Buckeyes are the athletic teams that represent The Ohio State University in NCAA Division I sports, competing primarily in the Big Ten Conference.
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Penn Quakers
The Penn Quakers are the athletic teams representing the University of Pennsylvania in NCAA Division I sports, particularly known for their long-standing football and basketball traditions in the Ivy League.
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Temple Owls
The Temple Owls are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Temple University in NCAA Division I sports.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Penn State Nittany Lions Target entity description: The Penn State Nittany Lions are the athletic teams representing Pennsylvania State University in NCAA Division I sports, known especially for their prominent football program.
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A.
Penn State Nittany Lions football
Penn State Nittany Lions football is the college football program of Pennsylvania State University, a historically prominent Big Ten team known for its large fan base, storied traditions, and success under longtime coach Joe Paterno.
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B.
Penn State Nittany Lions men's basketball
The Penn State Nittany Lions men's basketball team represents Pennsylvania State University in NCAA Division I competition as a member of the Big Ten Conference.
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C.
Ohio State Buckeyes
The Ohio State Buckeyes are the athletic teams that represent The Ohio State University in NCAA Division I sports, competing primarily in the Big Ten Conference.
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Penn Quakers
The Penn Quakers are the athletic teams representing the University of Pennsylvania in NCAA Division I sports, particularly known for their long-standing football and basketball traditions in the Ivy League.
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Temple Owls
The Temple Owls are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Temple University in NCAA Division I sports.
- F. None of above. chosen
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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: Penn State Nittany Lions Description of subject: The Penn State Nittany Lions are the athletic teams representing Pennsylvania State University in NCAA Division I sports, known especially for their prominent football program.
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