Division I
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Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the NCAA in the United States, featuring the largest schools with the most competitive sports programs.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Division I canonical | 132 |
| Division I A | 1 |
| Division I playing and practice seasons | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3491564 — 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: Division I Context triple: [Boston College Eagles women's basketball team, NCAACompetitionLevel, Division I]
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A.
Division I
Division I is the highest professional tier of men’s soccer in the United States, sanctioned as the top level of the American soccer league system.
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B.
Division I
Division I is a secondary-tier international ice hockey competition organized by the IIHF that serves as a qualifying level for the top World Championship division.
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C.
Division II
Division II is the second-highest level of professional soccer in the United States, sitting just below Major League Soccer in the American soccer league system.
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D.
Division II
Division II is a lower-tier international ice hockey competition within the IIHF World Championship structure, featuring developing national teams competing for promotion to higher levels.
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E.
Division III
Division III is the lowest competitive tier of the IIHF World Championship structure, featuring emerging and developing national ice hockey teams.
- 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: Division I Target entity description: Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the NCAA in the United States, featuring the largest schools with the most competitive sports programs.
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A.
Division I
Division I is a secondary-tier international ice hockey competition organized by the IIHF that serves as a qualifying level for the top World Championship division.
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B.
Division I
Division I is the highest professional tier of men’s soccer in the United States, sanctioned as the top level of the American soccer league system.
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C.
Division II
Division II is the second-highest level of professional soccer in the United States, sitting just below Major League Soccer in the American soccer league system.
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D.
Division II
Division II is a lower-tier international ice hockey competition within the IIHF World Championship structure, featuring developing national teams competing for promotion to higher levels.
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E.
Division III
Division III is the lowest competitive tier of the IIHF World Championship structure, featuring emerging and developing national ice hockey teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA division
ⓘ
intercollegiate athletics level ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | varsity college sports ⓘ |
| contrastWith |
NCAA Division II
ⓘ
NCAA Division III ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| emphasis |
high-profile athletics programs
ⓘ
significant athletics revenue potential ⓘ |
| geographicScope |
United States (territorial jurisdiction)
ⓘ
surface form:
United States and select non-U.S. territories
|
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
largest NCAA member schools
ⓘ
most competitive NCAA sports programs ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfMemberSchools | over 350 ⓘ |
| highestLevelOf |
NCAA Division I
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA intercollegiate athletics
|
| inception | 1973 ⓘ |
| membershipCriteria |
athletic scholarships permitted
ⓘ
attendance requirements for football subdivisions ⓘ financial aid limitations ⓘ minimum number of sports sponsored ⓘ |
| organizes |
NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I Baseball Championship
NCAA Division I Football Championship Game ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I Football Championship (FCS)
NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament ⓘ NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Championship
NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Championship
NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament ⓘ NCAA Division I women’s soccer College Cup ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Championship
NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship ⓘ |
| partOf | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| regulates |
academic eligibility
ⓘ
amateurism ⓘ athletic scholarships ⓘ recruiting ⓘ |
| replaces |
NCAA Division I
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA University Division
|
| sport |
American football
ⓘ
baseball ⓘ basketball ⓘ golf ⓘ gymnastics ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ lacrosse ⓘ soccer ⓘ softball ⓘ swimming and diving ⓘ tennis ⓘ track and field ⓘ volleyball ⓘ wrestling ⓘ |
| subdivision |
Football Bowl Subdivision
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
NCAA Division I FCS ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision
non-football Division I members ⓘ |
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: Division I Description of subject: Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the NCAA in the United States, featuring the largest schools with the most competitive sports programs.
Referenced by (134)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
National Collegiate Hockey Conference
subject surface form:
LSU Tigers
subject surface form:
Mississippi State vs. Connecticut (2017 NCAA Women's Final Four)