Sebastian the Ibis
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Sebastian the Ibis is the costumed white ibis character who serves as the spirited and recognizable mascot of the University of Miami’s athletic teams.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sebastian the Ibis canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T369571 — 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: Sebastian the Ibis Context triple: [University of Miami, mascot, Sebastian the Ibis]
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A.
Kestrel
Kestrel is a pressure-fed, liquid-fueled rocket engine developed by SpaceX for the second stage of its early Falcon 1 launch vehicle.
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B.
Mawtini
Mawtini is a patriotic Arabic song that serves as Iraq’s national anthem, celebrating homeland, freedom, and resilience.
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C.
The Snail
The Snail is a late-career cut-out collage by Henri Matisse that arranges bold, colorful paper shapes into a semi-abstract spiral composition.
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D.
Blaze the Dragon
Blaze the Dragon is the fiery dragon mascot representing the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s athletic teams.
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E.
Benny the Bull
Benny the Bull is the high-energy, acrobatic mascot of the NBA’s Chicago Bulls, known for his comedic antics and fan engagement during games.
- 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: Sebastian the Ibis Target entity description: Sebastian the Ibis is the costumed white ibis character who serves as the spirited and recognizable mascot of the University of Miami’s athletic teams.
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A.
Kestrel
Kestrel is a pressure-fed, liquid-fueled rocket engine developed by SpaceX for the second stage of its early Falcon 1 launch vehicle.
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B.
Mawtini
Mawtini is a patriotic Arabic song that serves as Iraq’s national anthem, celebrating homeland, freedom, and resilience.
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C.
The Snail
The Snail is a late-career cut-out collage by Henri Matisse that arranges bold, colorful paper shapes into a semi-abstract spiral composition.
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D.
Blaze the Dragon
Blaze the Dragon is the fiery dragon mascot representing the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s athletic teams.
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E.
Benny the Bull
Benny the Bull is the high-energy, acrobatic mascot of the NBA’s Chicago Bulls, known for his comedic antics and fan engagement during games.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
costumed character
ⓘ
fictional bird character ⓘ university mascot ⓘ |
| appearsAt |
University of Miami home games
ⓘ
pep rallies ⓘ university events ⓘ |
| associatedWithConference | Atlantic Coast Conference ⓘ |
| associatedWithNickname |
Miami Hurricanes football
ⓘ
surface form:
Miami Hurricanes
|
| city | Coral Gables, Florida ⓘ |
| color |
green
ⓘ
orange ⓘ white ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| educationInstitution | University of Miami ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| mascotOf | University of Miami ⓘ |
| notableFor |
recognizable appearance
ⓘ
spirited behavior ⓘ |
| represents | white ibis ⓘ |
| speciesRepresented | American white ibis ⓘ |
| sportAssociatedWith |
American football
ⓘ
baseball ⓘ basketball ⓘ college athletics ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
University of Miami Hurricanes identity
ⓘ
resilience ⓘ school spirit ⓘ |
| university | University of Miami ⓘ |
| usedBy |
University of Miami
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surface form:
University of Miami athletics department
|
| wears |
University of Miami hat
ⓘ
University of Miami jersey ⓘ |
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: Sebastian the Ibis Description of subject: Sebastian the Ibis is the costumed white ibis character who serves as the spirited and recognizable mascot of the University of Miami’s athletic teams.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Miami Hurricanes men's basketball