Minnesota State Screaming Eagles
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The Minnesota State Screaming Eagles are the fictional college football team featured in the television sitcom "Coach," led by head coach Hayden Fox.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minnesota State Screaming Eagles canonical | 2 |
| Minnesota State Screaming Eagles football team | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3342450 — 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: Minnesota State Screaming Eagles Context triple: [Hayden Fox, teamCoached, Minnesota State Screaming Eagles]
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A.
Minnesota Golden Gophers
The Minnesota Golden Gophers are the University of Minnesota’s NCAA Division I athletic teams, competing primarily in the Big Ten Conference across a wide range of men’s and women’s sports.
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B.
University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs
The University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs are the athletic teams of the University of Minnesota Duluth, best known for their successful NCAA ice hockey programs that have produced notable players like Brett Hull.
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C.
UND Fighting Hawks
The UND Fighting Hawks are the University of North Dakota’s athletic teams, best known nationally for their successful NCAA Division I ice hockey program.
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D.
Nebraska–Omaha Mavericks
Nebraska–Omaha Mavericks is the former name of the University of Nebraska Omaha’s athletic program, which competes in NCAA Division I across multiple sports.
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E.
Iowa Hawkeyes
The Iowa Hawkeyes are the intercollegiate athletic teams representing the University of Iowa in NCAA Division I competition, primarily competing in the Big Ten 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: Minnesota State Screaming Eagles Target entity description: The Minnesota State Screaming Eagles are the fictional college football team featured in the television sitcom "Coach," led by head coach Hayden Fox.
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A.
Minnesota Golden Gophers
The Minnesota Golden Gophers are the University of Minnesota’s NCAA Division I athletic teams, competing primarily in the Big Ten Conference across a wide range of men’s and women’s sports.
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B.
University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs
The University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs are the athletic teams of the University of Minnesota Duluth, best known for their successful NCAA ice hockey programs that have produced notable players like Brett Hull.
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C.
UND Fighting Hawks
The UND Fighting Hawks are the University of North Dakota’s athletic teams, best known nationally for their successful NCAA Division I ice hockey program.
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D.
Nebraska–Omaha Mavericks
Nebraska–Omaha Mavericks is the former name of the University of Nebraska Omaha’s athletic program, which competes in NCAA Division I across multiple sports.
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E.
Iowa Hawkeyes
The Iowa Hawkeyes are the intercollegiate athletic teams representing the University of Iowa in NCAA Division I competition, primarily competing in the Big Ten Conference.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional college football team
ⓘ
fictional sports team ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
"Coach"
ⓘ
surface form:
Coach (TV series)
|
| athleticDirectorInSeries | Howard Burleigh ⓘ |
| coachStaffMember | Luther Van Dam ⓘ |
| coachStaffMemberPortrayedBy | Jerry Van Dyke ⓘ |
| country | United States (fictional setting) ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | does not correspond to a real NCAA program ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
"Coach"
ⓘ
surface form:
Coach season 1
|
| genreContext | sitcom ⓘ |
| headCoach | Hayden Fox ⓘ |
| headCoachPortrayedBy | Craig T. Nelson ⓘ |
| homeCity | Minnesota (unspecified city, fictional) ⓘ |
| homeInstitution |
Minnesota State University
ⓘ
surface form:
Minnesota State University (fictional)
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| leagueLevel | NCAA Division I-A (fictional) ⓘ |
| mascotType | eagle ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | primary team setting for Hayden Fox’s coaching career in Coach ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | wins a national championship in the series storyline ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| state |
Minnesota
ⓘ
surface form:
Minnesota (fictional setting)
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| teamColors |
gold
ⓘ
purple ⓘ |
| teamNickname | Screaming Eagles ⓘ |
| universe |
"Coach"
ⓘ
surface form:
Coach (TV series)
|
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: Minnesota State Screaming Eagles Description of subject: The Minnesota State Screaming Eagles are the fictional college football team featured in the television sitcom "Coach," led by head coach Hayden Fox.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hayden Fox
this entity surface form:
Minnesota State Screaming Eagles football team