BIG3 (basketball league)
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BIG3 is a professional 3-on-3 basketball league featuring former NBA players and other international pros, known for its half-court format and entertainment-focused presentation.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BIG3 (basketball league) canonical | 1 |
| BIG3 Draft | 1 |
| BIG3 LLC | 1 |
| Triplets (BIG3 team) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3233465 — 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)
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Target entity: BIG3 (basketball league) Context triple: [Ice Cube, founded, BIG3 (basketball league)]
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A.
B.League
B.League is Japan’s professional men’s basketball league, featuring top-tier teams from across the country.
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B.
NBA 2K League Eastern Conference
The NBA 2K League Eastern Conference is a competitive division within the NBA 2K League that groups together teams based primarily in the eastern regions of North America for regular-season play.
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C.
NBA 2K League
The NBA 2K League is a professional esports league co-founded by the NBA and Take-Two Interactive that features official NBA team-affiliated squads competing in the NBA 2K video game.
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D.
bj league
The bj league was Japan's first professional basketball league, operating independently from the traditional corporate-backed system before eventually merging into the B.League.
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E.
Big 5 basketball
Big 5 basketball is a historic Philadelphia college basketball association comprising five local universities known for their intense rivalries and games at the Palestra.
- 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: BIG3 (basketball league) Target entity description: BIG3 is a professional 3-on-3 basketball league featuring former NBA players and other international pros, known for its half-court format and entertainment-focused presentation.
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A.
B.League
B.League is Japan’s professional men’s basketball league, featuring top-tier teams from across the country.
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B.
NBA 2K League Eastern Conference
The NBA 2K League Eastern Conference is a competitive division within the NBA 2K League that groups together teams based primarily in the eastern regions of North America for regular-season play.
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C.
NBA 2K League
The NBA 2K League is a professional esports league co-founded by the NBA and Take-Two Interactive that features official NBA team-affiliated squads competing in the NBA 2K video game.
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D.
bj league
The bj league was Japan's first professional basketball league, operating independently from the traditional corporate-backed system before eventually merging into the B.League.
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E.
Big 5 basketball
Big 5 basketball is a historic Philadelphia college basketball association comprising five local universities known for their intense rivalries and games at the Palestra.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
3x3 basketball league
ⓘ
professional basketball league ⓘ |
| broadcastPartner |
CBS Sports
ⓘ
Fox Sports ⓘ |
| competitionFormat | regular season and playoffs ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | professional ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| courtType | half-court ⓘ |
| features |
former NBA players
ⓘ
international professional players ⓘ |
| format | 3-on-3 ⓘ |
| founder |
Ice Cube
ⓘ
Jeff Kwatinetz ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| governingBody |
BIG3 (basketball league)
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
BIG3 LLC
|
| hasDraft |
BIG3 (basketball league)
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
BIG3 Draft
|
| hasNotablePlayer |
Allen Iverson
ⓘ
Chauncey Billups ⓘ Joe Johnson ⓘ Kenyon Martin ⓘ Rashard Lewis ⓘ Stephen Jackson ⓘ |
| hasTeam |
3 Headed Monsters
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Three's Company ⓘ
surface form:
3’s Company
Aliens ⓘ Big Black ⓘ
surface form:
BIG BLACK
Ball Hogs ⓘ Bivouac ⓘ Enemies ⓘ Ghost Ballers ⓘ Killer 3s ⓘ Power ⓘ Tri-State ⓘ Trilogy ⓘ Triplets ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| inception | 2017 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| numberOfPlayersPerTeamOnCourt | 3 ⓘ |
| playerEligibility |
minimum age requirement
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professional experience required ⓘ |
| presentationStyle | entertainment-focused ⓘ |
| ruleModification |
first team to 50 points wins
ⓘ
four-point shot ⓘ must win by 2 points ⓘ no game clock, target score to win ⓘ no offensive goaltending ⓘ single 14-second shot clock ⓘ trilogy-style best-of format in some seasons ⓘ |
| seasonStructure | traveling league with games in multiple cities ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| usesBall | custom BIG3-branded basketball ⓘ |
| website | https://big3.com ⓘ |
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: BIG3 (basketball league) Description of subject: BIG3 is a professional 3-on-3 basketball league featuring former NBA players and other international pros, known for its half-court format and entertainment-focused presentation.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Triplets (BIG3 team)
subject surface form:
BIG3
this entity surface form:
BIG3 LLC
subject surface form:
BIG3
this entity surface form:
BIG3 Draft