2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game
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The 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the title contest of the 2009 men's college basketball tournament, determining the national champion of the 2008–09 season.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6002524 — 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: 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game Context triple: [2008 NCAA men's basketball championship, followedBy, 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game]
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2007 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship
The 2007 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship was the title game in which the University of Florida completed back-to-back national championships by defeating Ohio State to cap the 2006–07 college basketball season.
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2006 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship
The 2006 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship was the title game in which the University of Florida men's basketball team won its first national championship, defeating UCLA to conclude the 2005–06 college basketball season.
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2008 NCAA men's basketball championship
The 2008 NCAA men's basketball championship was the title game of the 2007–08 college basketball season, famously won by the Kansas Jayhawks after Mario Chalmers’ last-second three-pointer forced overtime against the Memphis Tigers.
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2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
The 2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was the annual March Madness championship in which Duke defeated Butler in a dramatic title game, highlighted by Butler's historic underdog run to the final.
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2004 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship
The 2004 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship was the season-ending national title game of the 2003–04 college basketball season, in which the University of Connecticut Huskies defeated the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets to win the national championship.
- 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: 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game Target entity description: The 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the title contest of the 2009 men's college basketball tournament, determining the national champion of the 2008–09 season.
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A.
2007 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship
The 2007 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship was the title game in which the University of Florida completed back-to-back national championships by defeating Ohio State to cap the 2006–07 college basketball season.
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B.
2006 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship
The 2006 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship was the title game in which the University of Florida men's basketball team won its first national championship, defeating UCLA to conclude the 2005–06 college basketball season.
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C.
2008 NCAA men's basketball championship
The 2008 NCAA men's basketball championship was the title game of the 2007–08 college basketball season, famously won by the Kansas Jayhawks after Mario Chalmers’ last-second three-pointer forced overtime against the Memphis Tigers.
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D.
2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
The 2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was the annual March Madness championship in which Duke defeated Butler in a dramatic title game, highlighted by Butler's historic underdog run to the final.
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E.
2004 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship
The 2004 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship was the season-ending national title game of the 2003–04 college basketball season, in which the University of Connecticut Huskies defeated the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets to win the national championship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game
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basketball game ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | 2009 NCAA men's basketball national championship game NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attendance | 72722 ⓘ |
| awayTeam | Michigan State Spartans men's basketball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city | Detroit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| date | April 6, 2009 ⓘ |
| determined | national champion of NCAA Division I men's basketball for the 2008–09 season ⓘ |
| division | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| finalScore | North Carolina 89–72 Michigan State ⓘ |
| followedBy | 2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genderCategory | men's ⓘ |
| headCoachOfLosingTeam | Tom Izzo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headCoachOfWinningTeam | Roy Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeTeam | North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostFacility | Ford Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Ford Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| loser | Michigan State Spartans men's basketball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| losingScore | 72 ⓘ |
| marginOfVictory | 17 points ⓘ |
| mostOutstandingPlayer | Wayne Ellington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mostOutstandingPlayerTeam | North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePlayerMichiganState |
Goran Suton
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Kalin Lucas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePlayerNorthCarolina |
Ty Lawson
NERFINISHED
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Tyler Hansbrough NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | 2008 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seasonOfCompetition | 2008–09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan (most of state)
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surface form:
Michigan
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| surface | hardwood court ⓘ |
| televisionNetwork | CBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tipoffTimeLocal | approximately 9:21 p.m. EDT ⓘ |
| tournamentOrganizer | National Collegiate Athletic Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tournamentRegionOfMichiganState | Midwest Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tournamentRegionOfNorthCarolina | South Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tournamentRound | national championship game ⓘ |
| tournamentSeedOfMichiganState | 2 ⓘ |
| tournamentSeedOfNorthCarolina | 1 ⓘ |
| venueType | indoor stadium ⓘ |
| winner | North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| winningScore | 89 ⓘ |
| winningTeamTitleCount | 5 ⓘ |
| winningTeamTitleCountUnit | NCAA Division I men's basketball championships for North Carolina ⓘ |
| year | 2009 ⓘ |
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: 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game Description of subject: The 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the title contest of the 2009 men's college basketball tournament, determining the national champion of the 2008–09 season.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
2008 NCAA men's basketball championship
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followedBy
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2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game
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2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
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previousEdition
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2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game
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this entity surface form:
2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
this entity surface form:
2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship