Southland Conference
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The Southland Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), primarily comprising universities from the South Central United States.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Southland Conference canonical | 19 |
| Southland Conference championships | 1 |
| Southland Conference men’s basketball tournament | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T177183 — 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: Southland Conference Context triple: [FCS, hasConferences, Southland Conference]
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A.
Southwest Conference
The Southwest Conference was a historic college athletic conference in the south-central United States, best known for featuring major Texas universities in NCAA competition before disbanding in the mid-1990s.
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B.
Great Midwest Conference
The Great Midwest Conference was a former NCAA Division I athletic conference that operated in the early 1990s, primarily featuring universities from the Midwestern United States before its members were absorbed into Conference USA.
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C.
Missouri Valley Football Conference
The Missouri Valley Football Conference is a prominent NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) league known for its strong Midwestern programs and frequent national title contenders.
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D.
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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E.
Metro Conference
The Metro Conference was a former NCAA Division I athletic conference in the United States that primarily sponsored men's basketball before its members were later reorganized into Conference USA.
- 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: Southland Conference Target entity description: The Southland Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), primarily comprising universities from the South Central United States.
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A.
Southwest Conference
The Southwest Conference was a historic college athletic conference in the south-central United States, best known for featuring major Texas universities in NCAA competition before disbanding in the mid-1990s.
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B.
Great Midwest Conference
The Great Midwest Conference was a former NCAA Division I athletic conference that operated in the early 1990s, primarily featuring universities from the Midwestern United States before its members were absorbed into Conference USA.
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C.
Missouri Valley Football Conference
The Missouri Valley Football Conference is a prominent NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) league known for its strong Midwestern programs and frequent national title contenders.
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D.
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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E.
Metro Conference
The Metro Conference was a former NCAA Division I athletic conference in the United States that primarily sponsored men's basketball before its members were later reorganized into Conference USA.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA Division I FCS football conference
ⓘ
NCAA Division I conference ⓘ collegiate athletic conference ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SLC ⓘ |
| association | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| competitionLevel |
NCAA Division I
ⓘ
surface form:
Division I
|
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| footballCompetitionLevel | FCS ⓘ |
| formerHeadquartersLocation |
Plano, Texas
ⓘ
Richardson, Texas, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Richardson, Texas
|
| founded | 1963 ⓘ |
| governs | regular season competition among member schools ⓘ |
| hasGenderCategory |
men’s sports
ⓘ
women’s sports ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Southland Conference baseball tournament
ⓘ
Southland Conference football schedule ⓘ Southland Conference self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Southland Conference men’s basketball tournament
Southland Conference women’s basketball tournament ⓘ |
| hasSport |
baseball
ⓘ
basketball ⓘ cross country ⓘ football ⓘ golf ⓘ soccer ⓘ softball ⓘ tennis ⓘ track and field ⓘ volleyball ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Frisco, Texas ⓘ |
| inception | 1963 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| memberOf |
NCAA Division I FCS
ⓘ
surface form:
Football Championship Subdivision
|
| partOf |
NCAA Division I
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I athletics structure
|
| regionServed | South Central United States ⓘ |
| sponsor |
NCAA Division I FCS
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I FCS football
NCAA Division I Baseball ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I baseball
NCAA Division I cross country ⓘ NCAA Division I golf ⓘ NCAA Division I ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I men’s basketball
NCAA Division I ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I soccer
NCAA Division I softball ⓘ NCAA Division I ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I tennis
NCAA Division I track and field ⓘ NCAA Division I ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I volleyball
NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I women’s basketball
|
| sportGoverningBodyOver | college athletics ⓘ |
| subdivision |
NCAA Division I FCS
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision
|
| website | https://www.southland.org ⓘ |
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: Southland Conference Description of subject: The Southland Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), primarily comprising universities from the South Central United States.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Southland Conference men’s basketball tournament
subject surface form:
Commerce, Texas
this entity surface form:
Southland Conference championships
subject surface form:
University of New Orleans