First Four
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The First Four is the set of play-in games that determine the final teams advancing into the main bracket of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| First Four canonical | 6 |
| First Four play-in games | 1 |
| women’s NCAA First Four | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T79295 — 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: First Four Context triple: [NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament, hasStage, First Four]
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A.
Final Four
The Final Four is the culminating stage of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament where the last four teams compete in the national semifinals and championship game.
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B.
NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament
The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament is the annual single-elimination championship that determines the top women’s college basketball team in the United States.
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C.
Sweet Sixteen
Sweet Sixteen is the round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament in which 16 remaining teams compete for spots in the Elite Eight.
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D.
NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament
The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament is an annual single-elimination college basketball championship held each March in the United States, widely known as “March Madness” and one of the most popular sporting events in the country.
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E.
National Championship Game
The National Championship Game is the final, winner-take-all matchup that determines the NCAA Division I men’s basketball national champion.
- 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: First Four Target entity description: The First Four is the set of play-in games that determine the final teams advancing into the main bracket of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament.
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A.
Final Four
The Final Four is the culminating stage of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament where the last four teams compete in the national semifinals and championship game.
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B.
NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament
The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament is the annual single-elimination championship that determines the top women’s college basketball team in the United States.
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C.
Sweet Sixteen
Sweet Sixteen is the round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament in which 16 remaining teams compete for spots in the Elite Eight.
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D.
NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament
The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament is an annual single-elimination college basketball championship held each March in the United States, widely known as “March Madness” and one of the most popular sporting events in the country.
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E.
National Championship Game
The National Championship Game is the final, winner-take-all matchup that determines the NCAA Division I men’s basketball national champion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
phase of sports tournament
ⓘ
play-in round ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
First Four
ⓘ
surface form:
women’s NCAA First Four
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| competitionLevel | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| competitionPhase | opening round ⓘ |
| competitionScope | national ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| determinesQualificationFor | main bracket of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament ⓘ |
| eligibility | NCAA Division I women’s basketball teams selected for the national tournament ⓘ |
| formatFeature | play-in games for lowest-seeded automatic qualifiers and at-large teams ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genderCategory | women ⓘ |
| governingBody | NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee ⓘ |
| hasOutcome | advancement of four winning teams into the 64-team main bracket ⓘ |
| numberOfGames | 4 ⓘ |
| numberOfTeams | 8 ⓘ |
| organizer | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| partOf | NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose | to determine the final teams in the women’s NCAA tournament main field ⓘ |
| roundPrecedes | first round of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament ⓘ |
| season | college basketball postseason ⓘ |
| selectionMethod | NCAA tournament selection and seeding process ⓘ |
| shortName | First Four self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| tournamentType | single-elimination ⓘ |
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: First Four Description of subject: The First Four is the set of play-in games that determine the final teams advancing into the main bracket of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
First Four (NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball)
subject surface form:
First Four (NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball)
this entity surface form:
women’s NCAA First Four
this entity surface form:
First Four play-in games