Eastern 8 Conference
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The Eastern 8 Conference was a collegiate athletic conference in the eastern United States that later evolved into what is now known as the Atlantic 10 Conference.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eastern 8 Conference canonical | 7 |
| Eastern Eight Conference | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T322024 — 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: Eastern 8 Conference Context triple: [Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's basketball, formerConference, Eastern 8 Conference]
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A.
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) is a collegiate athletic conference of historically Black colleges and universities that competes in NCAA Division I, primarily in the eastern United States.
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B.
Northeast Conference
The Northeast Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily featuring smaller schools from the Northeastern United States, sponsoring competition in multiple sports including football at the FCS level.
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C.
Southland Conference
The Southland Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), primarily comprising universities from the South Central United States.
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D.
Ohio Valley Conference
The Ohio Valley Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising schools from the Midwestern and Southern United States.
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E.
Middle Atlantic Conference
The Middle Atlantic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that has historically organized competition among various mid-Atlantic colleges and universities, primarily at the NCAA Division III level.
- 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: Eastern 8 Conference Target entity description: The Eastern 8 Conference was a collegiate athletic conference in the eastern United States that later evolved into what is now known as the Atlantic 10 Conference.
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A.
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) is a collegiate athletic conference of historically Black colleges and universities that competes in NCAA Division I, primarily in the eastern United States.
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B.
Northeast Conference
The Northeast Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily featuring smaller schools from the Northeastern United States, sponsoring competition in multiple sports including football at the FCS level.
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C.
Southland Conference
The Southland Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), primarily comprising universities from the South Central United States.
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D.
Ohio Valley Conference
The Ohio Valley Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising schools from the Midwestern and Southern United States.
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E.
Middle Atlantic Conference
The Middle Atlantic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that has historically organized competition among various mid-Atlantic colleges and universities, primarily at the NCAA Division III level.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA Division I conference
ⓘ
collegiate athletic conference ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| memberInstitution |
Boston College
ⓘ
Duquesne University ⓘ George Washington University ⓘ Georgetown University ⓘ Pennsylvania State University ⓘ Providence College ⓘ Rhode Island University ⓘ Rutgers University ⓘ Seton Hall University ⓘ St. Bonaventure University ⓘ St. John’s University ⓘ
surface form:
St. John's University
Saint Joseph's University ⓘ
surface form:
St. Joseph's University
Syracuse University ⓘ Temple University ⓘ University of Connecticut ⓘ University of Massachusetts Amherst ⓘ University of Pittsburgh ⓘ Villanova University ⓘ West Virginia University ⓘ |
| region | eastern United States ⓘ |
| shortName | Eastern 8 ⓘ |
| sponsoredSport | men's basketball ⓘ |
| sport | college athletics ⓘ |
| successor | Atlantic 10 Conference ⓘ |
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: Eastern 8 Conference Description of subject: The Eastern 8 Conference was a collegiate athletic conference in the eastern United States that later evolved into what is now known as the Atlantic 10 Conference.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's basketball
this entity surface form:
Eastern Eight Conference
subject surface form:
Villanova Wildcats men's basketball