Mid-American Conference
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The Mid-American Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising midwestern U.S. universities and competing in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T568276 — 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: Mid-American Conference Context triple: [Group of Five, includesConference, Mid-American Conference]
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Great Midwest Conference
The Great Midwest Conference was a former NCAA Division I athletic conference that operated in the early 1990s, primarily featuring universities from the Midwestern United States before its members were absorbed into Conference USA.
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Middle Atlantic Conference
The Middle Atlantic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that has historically organized competition among various mid-Atlantic colleges and universities, primarily at the NCAA Division III level.
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Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) is a collegiate athletic conference of historically Black colleges and universities that competes in NCAA Division I, primarily in the eastern United States.
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Southland Conference
The Southland Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), primarily comprising universities from the South Central United States.
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American Athletic Conference
The American Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that sponsors NCAA Division I sports, including the top-tier Football Bowl Subdivision.
- 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: Mid-American Conference Target entity description: The Mid-American Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising midwestern U.S. universities and competing in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
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A.
Great Midwest Conference
The Great Midwest Conference was a former NCAA Division I athletic conference that operated in the early 1990s, primarily featuring universities from the Midwestern United States before its members were absorbed into Conference USA.
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Middle Atlantic Conference
The Middle Atlantic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that has historically organized competition among various mid-Atlantic colleges and universities, primarily at the NCAA Division III level.
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Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) is a collegiate athletic conference of historically Black colleges and universities that competes in NCAA Division I, primarily in the eastern United States.
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Southland Conference
The Southland Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), primarily comprising universities from the South Central United States.
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American Athletic Conference
The American Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that sponsors NCAA Division I sports, including the top-tier Football Bowl Subdivision.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Mid-American Conference Description of subject: The Mid-American Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising midwestern U.S. universities and competing in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
Referenced by (75)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mid-American Conference football
this entity surface form:
Mid-American Conference East Division
this entity surface form:
Mid-American Conference men's basketball teams
this entity surface form:
Mid-American Conference women's basketball
subject surface form:
West Division (Mid-American Conference)
subject surface form:
West Division (Mid-American Conference)
this entity surface form:
Mid-American Conference football
subject surface form:
West Division (Mid-American Conference)
this entity surface form:
East Division (Mid-American Conference)
subject surface form:
West Division (Mid-American Conference)