Conference USA football
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Conference USA football is an NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) collegiate athletic conference featuring member schools primarily from the southern and southeastern United States.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3982386 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Conference USA football Context triple: [UTEP Miners football team, governingConference, Conference USA football]
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Football Conference
The Football Conference was the former name of England’s fifth-tier national football league, sitting directly below the Football League in the English football pyramid.
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B.
CAA Football
CAA Football is the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) conference that organizes and governs college football competition for member schools primarily along the U.S. East Coast.
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NCAA football
NCAA football is the college-level version of American football in the United States, played by teams representing universities and colleges under the governance of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
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NFL Kickoff Game
The NFL Kickoff Game is the league’s annual season-opening primetime matchup, typically featuring the defending Super Bowl champion and serving as a major televised event to launch the new NFL season.
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E.
College Football Playoff
The College Football Playoff is the postseason system that determines the national champion of top-tier U.S. college football through a bracket-style tournament of elite teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Conference USA football Target entity description: Conference USA football is an NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) collegiate athletic conference featuring member schools primarily from the southern and southeastern United States.
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A.
Football Conference
The Football Conference was the former name of England’s fifth-tier national football league, sitting directly below the Football League in the English football pyramid.
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B.
CAA Football
CAA Football is the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) conference that organizes and governs college football competition for member schools primarily along the U.S. East Coast.
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C.
NCAA football
NCAA football is the college-level version of American football in the United States, played by teams representing universities and colleges under the governance of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
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D.
NFL Kickoff Game
The NFL Kickoff Game is the league’s annual season-opening primetime matchup, typically featuring the defending Super Bowl champion and serving as a major televised event to launch the new NFL season.
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E.
College Football Playoff
The College Football Playoff is the postseason system that determines the national champion of top-tier U.S. college football through a bracket-style tournament of elite teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA Division I FBS conference
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college football conference ⓘ |
| bowlSubdivisionStatus | FBS ⓘ |
| bowlTieIn |
Armed Forces Bowl
ⓘ
Bahamas Bowl ⓘ Bahamas Bowl ⓘ
surface form:
Boca Raton Bowl
First Responder Bowl ⓘ Hawaii Bowl ⓘ Independence Bowl ⓘ New Mexico Bowl ⓘ New Orleans Bowl ⓘ |
| competitionType | college athletics conference competition ⓘ |
| conferenceChampionshipGame |
Conference USA football
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Conference USA Football Championship Game
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| currentlyPartOf |
College Football Playoff
ⓘ
surface form:
College Football Playoff system
|
| division |
Football Bowl Subdivision
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
|
| eligibility | NCAA member institutions ⓘ |
| formerMemberTeam |
UNC Charlotte 49ers football
ⓘ
surface form:
Charlotte 49ers football
Cincinnati Bearcats ⓘ
surface form:
Cincinnati Bearcats football
East Carolina Pirates football ⓘ Florida Atlantic Owls football team ⓘ
surface form:
Florida Atlantic Owls football
Houston Cougars ⓘ
surface form:
Houston Cougars football
Louisville Cardinals football ⓘ Marshall Thundering Herd football ⓘ Memphis Tigers ⓘ
surface form:
Memphis Tigers football
North Texas Mean Green ⓘ
surface form:
North Texas Mean Green football
ODU Monarchs ⓘ
surface form:
Old Dominion Monarchs football
Rice Owls football ⓘ SMU Mustangs ⓘ
surface form:
SMU Mustangs football
TCU Horned Frogs ⓘ
surface form:
TCU Horned Frogs football
Tulane Green Wave football ⓘ UCF Knights ⓘ
surface form:
UCF Knights football
UTSA Roadrunners football team ⓘ
surface form:
UTSA Roadrunners football
|
| founded | 1995 ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| governsTeam |
Florida International University Panthers
ⓘ
surface form:
Florida International Panthers football
Jacksonville State Gamecocks football ⓘ Kennesaw State Owls ⓘ
surface form:
Kennesaw State Owls football
Liberty Flames football ⓘ Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football ⓘ Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders ⓘ
surface form:
Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football
NM State Aggies ⓘ
surface form:
New Mexico State Aggies football
Bearkats ⓘ
surface form:
Sam Houston Bearkats football
UTEP Miners football team ⓘ
surface form:
UTEP Miners football
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers ⓘ
surface form:
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football
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| hasFormat | conference championship game ⓘ |
| hasPostseason | bowl games ⓘ |
| inception | 1996 football season ⓘ |
| level | major college football ⓘ |
| numberOfTeams | 10 ⓘ |
| organizer | Conference USA ⓘ |
| partOf | Conference USA ⓘ |
| playsInSeason | fall ⓘ |
| previouslySponsoredBy | Bowl Championship Series ⓘ |
| region |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Southeastern United States
Southern United States ⓘ |
| ruleSet | NCAA college football rules ⓘ |
| seasonStructure | regular season and championship game ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| subdivision | Football Bowl Subdivision ⓘ |
| televisionPartner |
CBS Sports Network
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ESPN ⓘ ESPN+ (streaming service) ⓘ
surface form:
ESPN+
ESPN2 ⓘ ESPNU ⓘ Stadium ⓘ |
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: Conference USA football Description of subject: Conference USA football is an NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) collegiate athletic conference featuring member schools primarily from the southern and southeastern United States.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Conference USA football
→
conferenceChampionshipGame
→
Conference USA football
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Conference USA Football Championship Game
this entity surface form:
Conference USA football league structure
this entity surface form:
Conference USA football schedule
this entity surface form:
Conference USA Football Championship Game
this entity surface form:
Conference USA football championship race