NCAA Division III football championship
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The NCAA Division III football championship is the annual postseason tournament that determines the national champion among small-college football programs in the NCAA's non-scholarship Division III.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| NCAA Division III football championship canonical | 1 |
| NCAA Division III national championship | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5387466 — 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: NCAA Division III football championship Context triple: [NCAA College Division football national championship, replacedBy, NCAA Division III football championship]
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NCAA College Division football national championship
The NCAA College Division football national championship was the former postseason system used to determine small-college national champions in U.S. college football before the creation of the modern NCAA Division I Football Championship.
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NAIA Football National Championship
The NAIA Football National Championship is the annual title game that determines the national champion among small-college football programs in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.
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NCAA Division I Football Championship playoffs
The NCAA Division I Football Championship playoffs are a postseason tournament that determines the national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) through a multi-round, bracket-style competition.
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NCAA Division I Football Championship Game
The NCAA Division I Football Championship Game is the annual title contest that determines the national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
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E.
NCAA Division I FCS
NCAA Division I FCS is the second tier of top-level college football in the United States, featuring schools that offer fewer athletic scholarships than the higher-profile FBS and that compete in an NCAA-run playoff to determine a national champion.
- 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: NCAA Division III football championship Target entity description: The NCAA Division III football championship is the annual postseason tournament that determines the national champion among small-college football programs in the NCAA's non-scholarship Division III.
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A.
NCAA College Division football national championship
The NCAA College Division football national championship was the former postseason system used to determine small-college national champions in U.S. college football before the creation of the modern NCAA Division I Football Championship.
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B.
NAIA Football National Championship
The NAIA Football National Championship is the annual title game that determines the national champion among small-college football programs in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.
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C.
NCAA Division I Football Championship playoffs
The NCAA Division I Football Championship playoffs are a postseason tournament that determines the national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) through a multi-round, bracket-style competition.
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D.
NCAA Division I Football Championship Game
The NCAA Division I Football Championship Game is the annual title contest that determines the national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
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E.
NCAA Division I FCS
NCAA Division I FCS is the second tier of top-level college football in the United States, featuring schools that offer fewer athletic scholarships than the higher-profile FBS and that compete in an NCAA-run playoff to determine a national champion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA football championship
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college football postseason tournament ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Division III football playoffs
NERFINISHED
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NCAA DIII football playoffs NERFINISHED ⓘ NCAA Division III Football Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bracketStructure | regional brackets leading to national semifinals and final ⓘ |
| category |
College football playoffs in the United States
ⓘ
NCAA football championships NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | NCAA Division III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competitionScope | national ⓘ |
| confersTitle | NCAA Division III national champion in football ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| determines | NCAA Division III football national champion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| division | third tier of NCAA football ⓘ |
| eligibility | NCAA Division III football programs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalGameName | Stagg Bowl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalGameTrophy | Division III national championship trophy ⓘ |
| finalGameType | national championship game ⓘ |
| firstSeason | 1973 ⓘ |
| format | single-elimination tournament ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| gender | men's ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| governingDivision | NCAA Division III Championships Committee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingRules | NCAA football rules NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inceptionContext | created after NCAA football reorganization in early 1970s ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage | televised national championship game ⓘ |
| numberOfTeams | 32 ⓘ |
| organizer | NCAA Division III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participantType | small-college football programs ⓘ |
| playoffRound |
championship game
ⓘ
first round ⓘ quarterfinals ⓘ semifinals ⓘ |
| purpose | to crown the NCAA Division III football national champion ⓘ |
| qualificationBasis | regular-season performance ⓘ |
| relatedCompetition |
NCAA Division I FBS football championship
NERFINISHED
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NCAA Division I FCS football championship NERFINISHED ⓘ NCAA Division II football championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scholarshipPolicy | non-scholarship ⓘ |
| scholarshipRestriction | no athletic scholarships ⓘ |
| seasonTiming |
December
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late fall ⓘ |
| selectionMethod | automatic conference bids and at-large bids ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| teamEligibilityRequirement | membership in NCAA Division III ⓘ |
| teamSport | yes ⓘ |
| tournamentType | postseason ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: NCAA Division III football championship Description of subject: The NCAA Division III football championship is the annual postseason tournament that determines the national champion among small-college football programs in the NCAA's non-scholarship Division III.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
NCAA College Division football national championship
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replacedBy
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NCAA Division III football championship
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this entity surface form:
NCAA Division III national championship