NBA rules
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NBA rules are the official regulations that govern how professional basketball is played, officiated, and organized in the National Basketball Association.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NBA Official Rules | 2 |
| NBA rulebook | 2 |
| NBA rules canonical | 2 |
| NBA apron levels | 1 |
| NBA basketball rules | 1 |
| Official Rules of the National Basketball Association | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T58084 — 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: NBA rules Context triple: [NBA Finals games, ruleSet, NBA rules]
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A.
NBA Finals games
NBA Finals games are the championship series of the National Basketball Association, determining the league’s annual champion in a best-of-seven playoff between the Eastern and Western Conference winners.
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B.
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association is the premier professional men's basketball league in North America, featuring top teams and players and widely regarded as the highest level of basketball competition in the world.
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C.
Basketball Association of America
The Basketball Association of America was a pioneering professional basketball league in North America that later merged with the National Basketball League to form the modern National Basketball Association (NBA).
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D.
NBA champion
The NBA champion is the team that wins the league’s annual postseason tournament, earning the title as the best team in the National Basketball Association for that season.
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E.
National Association of Basketball Coaches
The National Association of Basketball Coaches is a professional organization representing men’s college basketball coaches in the United States, focused on advocacy, education, and the promotion of the sport.
- 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: NBA rules Target entity description: NBA rules are the official regulations that govern how professional basketball is played, officiated, and organized in the National Basketball Association.
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A.
NBA Finals games
NBA Finals games are the championship series of the National Basketball Association, determining the league’s annual champion in a best-of-seven playoff between the Eastern and Western Conference winners.
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B.
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association is the premier professional men's basketball league in North America, featuring top teams and players and widely regarded as the highest level of basketball competition in the world.
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C.
Basketball Association of America
The Basketball Association of America was a pioneering professional basketball league in North America that later merged with the National Basketball League to form the modern National Basketball Association (NBA).
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D.
NBA champion
The NBA champion is the team that wins the league’s annual postseason tournament, earning the title as the best team in the National Basketball Association for that season.
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E.
National Association of Basketball Coaches
The National Association of Basketball Coaches is a professional organization representing men’s college basketball coaches in the United States, focused on advocacy, education, and the promotion of the sport.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (87)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball rules
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sports regulations ⓘ |
| allow |
coach’s challenge
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video replay review ⓘ zone defense since 2001 ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
NBA coaches
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NBA play-in tournament ⓘ
surface form:
NBA play-in games
NBA players ⓘ NBA playoff games ⓘ NBA preseason games ⓘ NBA referees ⓘ NBA regular season games ⓘ NBA teams ⓘ |
| canBeModifiedBetween | seasons ⓘ |
| codifiedIn |
NBA rules
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Official Rules of the National Basketball Association
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| defines |
24-second shot clock
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backcourt violation ⓘ ball specifications ⓘ basket interference ⓘ bench decorum ⓘ bonus free throw situation ⓘ carrying violation ⓘ clear path foul ⓘ coach’s challenge procedure ⓘ court dimensions ⓘ defensive three-second technical ⓘ defensive three-second violation ⓘ delay of game violation ⓘ double dribble violation ⓘ eight-second backcourt rule ⓘ fighting penalties ⓘ flagrant foul ⓘ fouls ⓘ free throw procedures ⓘ game duration ⓘ goaltending ⓘ illegal screen ⓘ instant replay procedures ⓘ instant replay review triggers ⓘ jump ball procedures ⓘ jump ball situations ⓘ number of overtimes allowed ⓘ number of timeouts per team ⓘ offensive three-second violation ⓘ overtime length ⓘ overtime procedures ⓘ personal foul ⓘ player ejection conditions ⓘ possession arrow non-usage ⓘ scoring system ⓘ substitution procedures ⓘ team composition ⓘ team foul limit per quarter ⓘ technical foul ⓘ three-point line distance ⓘ timeout length ⓘ timeout procedures ⓘ traveling violation ⓘ uniform requirements ⓘ violations ⓘ |
| enforcedBy | NBA referees ⓘ |
| govern |
draft lottery procedures (game-related aspects excluded)
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play-in tournament format ⓘ playoff seeding procedures ⓘ regular season standings tiebreakers ⓘ |
| governedBy | National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Canada
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| prohibit |
fighting
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hand-checking on perimeter ⓘ leaving the bench during an altercation ⓘ zone defense restrictions prior to 2001 ⓘ |
| require |
minimum number of players to continue game
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official game clock ⓘ official scorekeeper ⓘ official shot clock ⓘ players to wear numbered jerseys ⓘ team to have five players on court unless disqualified ⓘ |
| updatedBy |
National Basketball Association
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surface form:
NBA Board of Governors
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| uses |
15-minute halftime
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24-second shot clock duration ⓘ 3-second lane count ⓘ 48-minute regulation game length ⓘ 8-second backcourt count ⓘ five-minute overtime periods ⓘ four 12-minute quarters ⓘ |
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: NBA rules Description of subject: NBA rules are the official regulations that govern how professional basketball is played, officiated, and organized in the National Basketball Association.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Official Rules of the National Basketball Association
subject surface form:
NBA franchise
this entity surface form:
NBA rulebook
subject surface form:
NBA game
this entity surface form:
NBA Official Rules
this entity surface form:
NBA apron levels
this entity surface form:
NBA basketball rules
this entity surface form:
NBA Official Rules
this entity surface form:
NBA rulebook