NCAA beach volleyball
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NCAA beach volleyball is a collegiate women’s sport in the United States featuring two-person teams competing on sand courts under NCAA governance.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NCAA beach volleyball canonical | 2 |
| NCAA National Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championship | 1 |
| NCAA women’s beach volleyball | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3573900 — 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: NCAA beach volleyball Context triple: [NCAA national championships, includeSport, NCAA beach volleyball]
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A.
NCAA men’s volleyball
NCAA men’s volleyball is the top level of collegiate men’s volleyball competition in the United States, organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and featuring university teams from across the country.
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B.
NCAA women's volleyball
NCAA women's volleyball is the national collegiate-level women's volleyball competition in the United States governed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, featuring university teams from across its divisions.
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C.
NCAA tennis
NCAA tennis is the collegiate-level tennis competition in the United States governed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, featuring varsity teams from universities and colleges across multiple divisions.
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D.
NCAA women’s basketball
NCAA women’s basketball is the governing body’s collegiate-level women’s basketball competition in the United States, featuring university teams across multiple divisions.
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E.
Ivy League women’s volleyball
Ivy League women’s volleyball is the NCAA Division I athletic conference competition for women’s varsity volleyball teams from the eight Ivy League 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: NCAA beach volleyball Target entity description: NCAA beach volleyball is a collegiate women’s sport in the United States featuring two-person teams competing on sand courts under NCAA governance.
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A.
NCAA men’s volleyball
NCAA men’s volleyball is the top level of collegiate men’s volleyball competition in the United States, organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and featuring university teams from across the country.
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B.
NCAA women's volleyball
NCAA women's volleyball is the national collegiate-level women's volleyball competition in the United States governed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, featuring university teams from across its divisions.
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C.
NCAA tennis
NCAA tennis is the collegiate-level tennis competition in the United States governed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, featuring varsity teams from universities and colleges across multiple divisions.
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D.
NCAA women’s basketball
NCAA women’s basketball is the governing body’s collegiate-level women’s basketball competition in the United States, featuring university teams across multiple divisions.
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E.
Ivy League women’s volleyball
Ivy League women’s volleyball is the NCAA Division I athletic conference competition for women’s varsity volleyball teams from the eight Ivy League universities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
beach volleyball
ⓘ
collegiate sport ⓘ team sport ⓘ women’s sport ⓘ |
| academicRequirement | NCAA academic eligibility standards ⓘ |
| athleteStatus | amateur ⓘ |
| ballType | volleyball ⓘ |
| competitionFormat | best-of-three sets per pair ⓘ |
| competitionLevel |
college
ⓘ
university ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| courtEnvironment |
beach-style venue
ⓘ
outdoor ⓘ |
| eligibilityRegulatedBy |
NCAA bylaws
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surface form:
NCAA amateurism rules
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| genderCategory | women ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| governsDivision |
NCAA Division I
ⓘ
NCAA Division II ⓘ NCAA Division III ⓘ |
| hasChampionship |
NCAA beach volleyball
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA National Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championship
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| isPartOf |
NCAA women’s sports
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA women’s championships program
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| matchStructure | dual format between schools ⓘ |
| numberOfPlayersPerSideOnCourt | 2 ⓘ |
| olympicDisciplineRelatedTo | Olympic beach volleyball ⓘ |
| playingSurface | sand court ⓘ |
| primaryParticipants | women student-athletes ⓘ |
| recruitingRegulatedBy | NCAA recruiting rules ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
NCAA women's volleyball
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA indoor volleyball
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| requires | sand-specific facilities ⓘ |
| rulesBasedOn | FIVB beach volleyball rules ⓘ |
| safetyRegulation | NCAA health and safety guidelines ⓘ |
| sanctions |
conference championships
ⓘ
national championship tournament ⓘ regular-season competition ⓘ |
| scholarshipsType | athletic scholarships ⓘ |
| scoringSystem | rally scoring ⓘ |
| season | spring ⓘ |
| setScoring | first two sets to 21 points ⓘ |
| statisticsTracked |
dual match results between schools
ⓘ
wins and losses by pair ⓘ |
| substitutionRule | no in-match substitutions for pairs ⓘ |
| teamFormat | two-person teams ⓘ |
| teamScoringMethod | aggregate of individual pair results ⓘ |
| tiebreakSetScoring | third set to 15 points ⓘ |
| typicalPairsPerDual | 5 ⓘ |
| uniformRequirement | NCAA-approved beach volleyball uniforms ⓘ |
| winCondition | two-point margin in sets ⓘ |
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: NCAA beach volleyball Description of subject: NCAA beach volleyball is a collegiate women’s sport in the United States featuring two-person teams competing on sand courts under NCAA governance.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
NCAA National Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championship
this entity surface form:
NCAA women’s beach volleyball