Western Athletic Conference
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The Western Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that has historically sponsored competition in multiple NCAA sports across institutions primarily in the western region.
All labels observed (9)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T183395 — 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: Western Athletic Conference Context triple: [Arizona Wildcats football team, formerConference, Western Athletic Conference]
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United Athletic Conference
The United Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) league that organizes and governs college football competition among its member institutions.
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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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Big Sky Conference
The Big Sky Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference best known for sponsoring Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) programs across universities primarily in the western United States.
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Southland Conference
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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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.
- 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: Western Athletic Conference Target entity description: The Western Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that has historically sponsored competition in multiple NCAA sports across institutions primarily in the western region.
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A.
United Athletic Conference
The United Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) league that organizes and governs college football competition among its member institutions.
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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.
Big Sky Conference
The Big Sky Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference best known for sponsoring Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) programs across universities primarily in the western United States.
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Southland Conference
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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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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (73)
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: Western Athletic Conference Description of subject: The Western Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that has historically sponsored competition in multiple NCAA sports across institutions primarily in the western region.
Referenced by (80)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
New Mexico Lobos men's basketball
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Rice Owls
this entity surface form:
Western Athletic Conference men's basketball teams
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Western Athletic Conference women's basketball season
this entity surface form:
Western Athletic Conference women's basketball teams
this entity surface form:
Western Athletic Conference championships
this entity surface form:
Western Athletic Conference (historically for many sports)