MEAC
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The MEAC (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) is a collegiate athletic conference of historically Black colleges and universities competing in NCAA Division I, primarily in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MEAC canonical | 5 |
| MEAC men's basketball tournament | 2 |
| MEAC Conference | 1 |
| Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T30975 — 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: MEAC Context triple: [NCAA Division I FCS, notableHBCUConferences, MEAC]
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A.
New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division III collegiate athletic conference composed primarily of private institutions in the New England region, sponsoring a wide range of men's and women's sports.
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B.
AFC
The AFC (American Football Conference) is one of the two conferences that make up the National Football League, comprising 16 teams that compete for a spot in the Super Bowl.
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C.
ACU
ACU (the Association of Commonwealth Universities) is an international network of higher education institutions from Commonwealth countries that promotes collaboration, academic excellence, and educational development.
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D.
NCAA Division I FCS
NCAA Division I FCS is the second tier of top-level college football in the United States, featuring schools that offer fewer athletic scholarships than the higher-profile FBS and that compete in an NCAA-run playoff to determine a national champion.
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E.
NCAA Division III
NCAA Division III is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association that features smaller colleges and universities emphasizing student-athlete participation without athletic scholarships.
- 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: MEAC Target entity description: The MEAC (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) is a collegiate athletic conference of historically Black colleges and universities competing in NCAA Division I, primarily in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
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A.
New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division III collegiate athletic conference composed primarily of private institutions in the New England region, sponsoring a wide range of men's and women's sports.
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B.
AFC
The AFC (American Football Conference) is one of the two conferences that make up the National Football League, comprising 16 teams that compete for a spot in the Super Bowl.
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C.
ACU
ACU (the Association of Commonwealth Universities) is an international network of higher education institutions from Commonwealth countries that promotes collaboration, academic excellence, and educational development.
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D.
NCAA Division I FCS
NCAA Division I FCS is the second tier of top-level college football in the United States, featuring schools that offer fewer athletic scholarships than the higher-profile FBS and that compete in an NCAA-run playoff to determine a national champion.
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E.
NCAA Division III
NCAA Division III is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association that features smaller colleges and universities emphasizing student-athlete participation without athletic scholarships.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA Division I conference
ⓘ
collegiate athletic conference ⓘ |
| abbreviation | MEAC self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
MEAC
ⓘ
surface form:
MEAC Conference
|
| competitionLevel | varsity ⓘ |
| competitionTier | FCS in football ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| emphasis | athletics for historically Black institutions ⓘ |
| focus | intercollegiate athletics ⓘ |
| footballSubdivision | NCAA Division I FCS ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | MEAC self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
Division I non-football bowl subdivision
ⓘ
predominantly HBCU membership ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberInstitutionType | four-year colleges and universities ⓘ |
| membershipCategory | HBCU conference ⓘ |
| memberType | historically Black colleges and universities ⓘ |
| organizationalScope | multi-sport conference ⓘ |
| primaryCompetitionSeason | academic year ⓘ |
| region | Eastern United States ⓘ |
| sponsorsSport |
baseball
ⓘ
bowling ⓘ cross country ⓘ football ⓘ men's basketball ⓘ softball ⓘ tennis ⓘ track and field ⓘ volleyball ⓘ women's basketball ⓘ |
| sportLevel | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
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: MEAC Description of subject: The MEAC (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) is a collegiate athletic conference of historically Black colleges and universities competing in NCAA Division I, primarily in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
subject surface form:
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
subject surface form:
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
this entity surface form:
MEAC Conference
subject surface form:
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
this entity surface form:
MEAC men's basketball tournament
this entity surface form:
MEAC men's basketball tournament