MAAC
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MAAC, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, is a collegiate athletic conference in the NCAA primarily comprising private institutions in the northeastern United States.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MAAC canonical | 4 |
| MAAC ice hockey | 2 |
| MAAC men's basketball teams | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6527783 — 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: MAAC Context triple: [Quinnipiac Bobcats men's ice hockey, formerConference, MAAC]
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A.
MAAC men's basketball tournament
The MAAC men's basketball tournament is the annual postseason championship event that determines the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
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B.
Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association
The Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association was a New York–area collegiate athletic organization best known for administering early postseason college basketball competition.
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C.
MIAA
MIAA is the commonly used acronym for the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the oldest collegiate athletic conference in the United States.
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D.
Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference
The Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division III athletic conference composed primarily of public universities in Massachusetts that compete in a wide range of collegiate sports.
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E.
MAAC women's basketball tournament
The MAAC women's basketball tournament is the annual postseason championship event that determines the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament.
- 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: MAAC Target entity description: MAAC, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, is a collegiate athletic conference in the NCAA primarily comprising private institutions in the northeastern United States.
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A.
MAAC men's basketball tournament
The MAAC men's basketball tournament is the annual postseason championship event that determines the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
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B.
Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association
The Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association was a New York–area collegiate athletic organization best known for administering early postseason college basketball competition.
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C.
MIAA
MIAA is the commonly used acronym for the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the oldest collegiate athletic conference in the United States.
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D.
Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference
The Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division III athletic conference composed primarily of public universities in Massachusetts that compete in a wide range of collegiate sports.
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E.
MAAC women's basketball tournament
The MAAC women's basketball tournament is the annual postseason championship event that determines the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | collegiate athletic conference ⓘ |
| abbreviation | MAAC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| affiliation | NCAA Division I non-football conferences NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| championshipQualification | NCAA tournament automatic bids for certain sports ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | Division I non-football ⓘ |
| competitionSeason | academic year ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| footballStatus | does not sponsor football as a conference sport ⓘ |
| fullName | Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genderPolicy | sponsors men's and women's sports ⓘ |
| geographicFocus |
Mid-Atlantic region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New England region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingScope | intercollegiate athletics ⓘ |
| memberInstitutionCharacteristic | mostly private colleges and universities ⓘ |
| memberInstitutionType | primarily private institutions ⓘ |
| membershipBasis | NCAA member institutions ⓘ |
| NCAAdivision | Division I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| organizationalType | non-profit sports organization ⓘ |
| primarySportEmphasis | basketball ⓘ |
| region | Northeastern United States ⓘ |
| scopeOfActivities |
administration of conference rules
ⓘ
organization of conference championships ⓘ scheduling and governance of conference competition ⓘ |
| sponsoredSport |
baseball
ⓘ
basketball ⓘ cross country ⓘ golf ⓘ lacrosse ⓘ men's basketball ⓘ men's lacrosse ⓘ men's soccer ⓘ soccer ⓘ softball ⓘ swimming and diving ⓘ tennis ⓘ track and field ⓘ volleyball ⓘ water polo ⓘ women's basketball ⓘ women's lacrosse ⓘ women's soccer ⓘ |
| sportCategory | college sports ⓘ |
| sportGoverningBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tournamentType | postseason conference tournaments ⓘ |
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: MAAC Description of subject: MAAC, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, is a collegiate athletic conference in the NCAA primarily comprising private institutions in the northeastern United States.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
MAAC men's basketball teams
this entity surface form:
MAAC ice hockey
this entity surface form:
MAAC ice hockey