2000 NCAA Men’s Final Four
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The 2000 NCAA Men’s Final Four was the culminating championship weekend of the 1999–2000 college basketball season, featuring the last four teams competing for the NCAA Division I men’s basketball national title.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 2000 NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament | 1 |
| 2000 NCAA Final Four | 1 |
| 2000 NCAA Men’s Final Four canonical | 1 |
| NCAA Division I men's basketball championship 2000 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3587529 — 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: 2000 NCAA Men’s Final Four Context triple: [RCA Dome, hostedEvent, 2000 NCAA Men’s Final Four]
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A.
2004 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship
The 2004 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship was the season-ending national title game of the 2003–04 college basketball season, in which the University of Connecticut Huskies defeated the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets to win the national championship.
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B.
2016 NCAA Men’s Final Four
The 2016 NCAA Men’s Final Four was the culminating championship weekend of the 2015–16 college basketball season, featuring the last four teams competing for the NCAA Division I men’s national title.
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C.
2019 NCAA Men’s Final Four
The 2019 NCAA Men’s Final Four was the concluding championship weekend of the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament, featuring the last four teams competing for the national title.
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D.
2015 NCAA Men’s Final Four
The 2015 NCAA Men’s Final Four was the culminating championship weekend of the 2014–15 college basketball season, featuring the last four teams competing for the NCAA Division I men’s national title.
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E.
2023 NCAA Men’s Final Four
The 2023 NCAA Men’s Final Four was the concluding championship weekend of the 2022–23 college basketball season, featuring the last four teams competing for the NCAA Division I men’s national title.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: 2000 NCAA Men’s Final Four Target entity description: The 2000 NCAA Men’s Final Four was the culminating championship weekend of the 1999–2000 college basketball season, featuring the last four teams competing for the NCAA Division I men’s basketball national title.
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A.
2004 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship
The 2004 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship was the season-ending national title game of the 2003–04 college basketball season, in which the University of Connecticut Huskies defeated the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets to win the national championship.
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B.
2016 NCAA Men’s Final Four
The 2016 NCAA Men’s Final Four was the culminating championship weekend of the 2015–16 college basketball season, featuring the last four teams competing for the NCAA Division I men’s national title.
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C.
2019 NCAA Men’s Final Four
The 2019 NCAA Men’s Final Four was the concluding championship weekend of the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament, featuring the last four teams competing for the national title.
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D.
2015 NCAA Men’s Final Four
The 2015 NCAA Men’s Final Four was the culminating championship weekend of the 2014–15 college basketball season, featuring the last four teams competing for the NCAA Division I men’s national title.
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E.
2023 NCAA Men’s Final Four
The 2023 NCAA Men’s Final Four was the concluding championship weekend of the 2022–23 college basketball season, featuring the last four teams competing for the NCAA Division I men’s national title.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA Division I men’s basketball Final Four
ⓘ
sports event ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
2000 Men’s Final Four
ⓘ
2000 NCAA Men’s Final Four ⓘ
surface form:
2000 NCAA Final Four
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| champion |
Michigan State Spartans men's basketball
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan State Spartans men’s basketball team
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| championPreviousTitleSeason | 1978–79 ⓘ |
| championTitleCount | 2 ⓘ |
| city |
Indianapolis
ⓘ
surface form:
Indianapolis, Indiana
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| competitionLevel | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| decides | 1999–2000 NCAA Division I men’s basketball national champion ⓘ |
| endDate | 2000-04-03 ⓘ |
| finalCity |
Indianapolis
ⓘ
surface form:
Indianapolis, Indiana
|
| finalScore | Michigan State 89–76 Florida ⓘ |
| gender | men’s ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| hasParticipant |
Florida Gators men's basketball
ⓘ
surface form:
Florida Gators men’s basketball team
Michigan State Spartans men's basketball ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan State Spartans men’s basketball team
North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball ⓘ
surface form:
North Carolina Tar Heels men’s basketball team
Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team ⓘ |
| headCoachOfChampion | Tom Izzo ⓘ |
| hostCityState |
Indianapolis
ⓘ
surface form:
Indianapolis, Indiana
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| mostOutstandingPlayer | Mateen Cleaves ⓘ |
| mostOutstandingPlayerTeam |
Michigan State Spartans men's basketball
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan State Spartans men’s basketball team
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| partOf |
1999–2000 NCAA Division I men’s basketball season
ⓘ
2000 NCAA Men’s Final Four self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
2000 NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament
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| regionOfChampion | Midwest Region ⓘ |
| regionOfRunnerUp | East Region ⓘ |
| runnerUp |
Florida Gators men's basketball
ⓘ
surface form:
Florida Gators men’s basketball team
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| semifinalLoser |
North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball
ⓘ
surface form:
North Carolina Tar Heels men’s basketball team
Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball ⓘ
surface form:
Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team
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| semifinalMatchup |
Florida vs. North Carolina
ⓘ
Michigan State vs. Wisconsin ⓘ |
| semifinalWinner |
Florida Gators men's basketball
ⓘ
surface form:
Florida Gators men’s basketball team
Michigan State Spartans men's basketball ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan State Spartans men’s basketball team
|
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| startDate | 2000-04-01 ⓘ |
| televisionNetwork | CBS ⓘ |
| tournamentEdition | 62nd NCAA men’s basketball championship ⓘ |
| tournamentSeedOfChampion | No. 1 seed (Midwest Region) ⓘ |
| tournamentSeedOfRunnerUp | No. 5 seed (East Region) ⓘ |
| venue | RCA Dome ⓘ |
| year | 2000 ⓘ |
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: 2000 NCAA Men’s Final Four Description of subject: The 2000 NCAA Men’s Final Four was the culminating championship weekend of the 1999–2000 college basketball season, featuring the last four teams competing for the NCAA Division I men’s basketball national title.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I men's basketball championship 2000
this entity surface form:
2000 NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament
this entity surface form:
2000 NCAA Final Four