San Jose State Spartans men’s basketball
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San Jose State Spartans men’s basketball is the NCAA Division I men’s basketball program representing San José State University in the Mountain West Conference.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| San Jose State Spartans men’s basketball canonical | 1 |
| San José State Spartans men's basketball | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6231844 — 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)
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Target entity: San Jose State Spartans men’s basketball Context triple: [Spartans, associatedWith, San Jose State Spartans men’s basketball]
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A.
San Jose State Spartans volleyball
San Jose State Spartans volleyball is the NCAA Division I women’s volleyball program representing San José State University in the Mountain West Conference.
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B.
San Jose State Spartans football
San Jose State Spartans football is the NCAA Division I FBS college football program representing San José State University, competing in the Mountain West Conference.
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C.
San Francisco State Gators men's basketball
The San Francisco State Gators men's basketball team represents San Francisco State University in NCAA competition and maintains a notable local rivalry with the University of San Francisco Dons.
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D.
San Francisco Dons men's basketball
San Francisco Dons men's basketball is the University of San Francisco’s NCAA Division I men’s basketball program, historically renowned for its 1950s powerhouse teams led by Bill Russell that won back-to-back national championships.
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E.
San Jose State Spartans baseball
San Jose State Spartans baseball is the NCAA Division I college baseball program representing San José State University in the Mountain West Conference.
- 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: San Jose State Spartans men’s basketball Target entity description: San Jose State Spartans men’s basketball is the NCAA Division I men’s basketball program representing San José State University in the Mountain West Conference.
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A.
San Jose State Spartans volleyball
San Jose State Spartans volleyball is the NCAA Division I women’s volleyball program representing San José State University in the Mountain West Conference.
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B.
San Jose State Spartans football
San Jose State Spartans football is the NCAA Division I FBS college football program representing San José State University, competing in the Mountain West Conference.
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C.
San Francisco State Gators men's basketball
The San Francisco State Gators men's basketball team represents San Francisco State University in NCAA competition and maintains a notable local rivalry with the University of San Francisco Dons.
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D.
San Francisco Dons men's basketball
San Francisco Dons men's basketball is the University of San Francisco’s NCAA Division I men’s basketball program, historically renowned for its 1950s powerhouse teams led by Bill Russell that won back-to-back national championships.
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E.
San Jose State Spartans baseball
San Jose State Spartans baseball is the NCAA Division I college baseball program representing San José State University in the Mountain West Conference.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA Division I men’s basketball program
ⓘ
college basketball team ⓘ |
| affiliation | Mountain West Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | San Jose, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| campus | San José State University main campus ⓘ |
| campusCity | San Jose NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| campusState | California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | Division I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conference | Mountain West Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formerConference |
Big West Conference
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
California Collegiate Athletic Association NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Coast Athletic Association NERFINISHED ⓘ West Coast Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Athletic Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | men’s ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| governingDivision | NCAA Division I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRival |
Fresno State Bulldogs men’s basketball
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Diego State Aztecs men’s basketball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeArena | Provident Credit Union Event Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeCity | San Jose NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeCourt | Provident Credit Union Event Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeState | California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league |
National Collegiate Athletic Association
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA
|
| level | varsity ⓘ |
| location | San Jose, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| NCAADivision | Division I ⓘ |
| nickname | Spartans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsIn | Mountain West Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | West Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| represent | San José State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| represents | San José State University in intercollegiate men’s basketball ⓘ |
| shortName |
SJSU Spartans men’s basketball
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Jose State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sponsorInstitution | San José State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| sportType | men’s college basketball ⓘ |
| teamColors |
blue
ⓘ
gold ⓘ |
| teamName | San Jose State Spartans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tournament | NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| university | San José State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: San Jose State Spartans men’s basketball Description of subject: San Jose State Spartans men’s basketball is the NCAA Division I men’s basketball program representing San José State University in the Mountain West Conference.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
San José State Spartans men's basketball