SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
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The SEC Men's Basketball Tournament is the postseason conference championship event that determines the Southeastern Conference's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SEC Men's Basketball Tournament canonical | 4 |
| SEC Tournament | 3 |
| SEC men's basketball tournament | 3 |
| SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T616996 — 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: SEC Men's Basketball Tournament Context triple: [Southeastern Conference, hasChampionshipEvent, SEC Men's Basketball Tournament]
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A.
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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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.
Ivy League Men’s Basketball Tournament
The Ivy League Men’s Basketball Tournament is the postseason championship event that determines the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament.
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D.
NCAA basketball
NCAA basketball is the system of college-level basketball in the United States governed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, featuring men’s and women’s competitions that serve as a major pipeline to professional play and include the prominent March Madness tournament.
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E.
NCAA Convention
The NCAA Convention is the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s annual gathering of member institutions and officials to conduct governance business, set policies, and recognize major award recipients.
- 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: SEC Men's Basketball Tournament Target entity description: The SEC Men's Basketball Tournament is the postseason conference championship event that determines the Southeastern Conference's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
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A.
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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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.
Ivy League Men’s Basketball Tournament
The Ivy League Men’s Basketball Tournament is the postseason championship event that determines the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament.
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D.
NCAA basketball
NCAA basketball is the system of college-level basketball in the United States governed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, featuring men’s and women’s competitions that serve as a major pipeline to professional play and include the prominent March Madness tournament.
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E.
NCAA Convention
The NCAA Convention is the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s annual gathering of member institutions and officials to conduct governance business, set policies, and recognize major award recipients.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college basketball conference tournament
ⓘ
postseason basketball tournament ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
ⓘ
surface form:
SEC Tournament
|
| audience | college basketball fans ⓘ |
| broadcastOn |
CBS
ⓘ
ESPN ⓘ SEC Network ⓘ |
| competitionType |
conference championship
ⓘ
postseason tournament ⓘ |
| conference | Southeastern Conference ⓘ |
| confersTitle |
SEC Tournament champion
ⓘ
Southeastern Conference men's basketball tournament champion ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| determines | SEC automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament ⓘ |
| eligibility | SEC men's basketball teams ⓘ |
| firstEditionLocation |
Atlanta
ⓘ
surface form:
Atlanta, Georgia
|
| firstEditionVenue | Atlanta Athletic Club ⓘ |
| format |
bracketed tournament
ⓘ
single-elimination ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| gender | men's ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| hasHadLocation |
Atlanta
ⓘ
surface form:
Atlanta, Georgia
Nashville ⓘ
surface form:
Nashville, Tennessee
New Orleans ⓘ
surface form:
New Orleans, Louisiana
Tampa, Florida ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.secsports.com ⓘ |
| hasRuleSet | NCAA men's basketball rules ⓘ |
| hasVenueType | indoor arena ⓘ |
| inception | 1933 ⓘ |
| level | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| locationVariesByYear | true ⓘ |
| numberOfTeams | 14 ⓘ |
| organizer | Southeastern Conference ⓘ |
| overtimeRules | NCAA men's basketball overtime rules ⓘ |
| participationRestriction | SEC member institutions only ⓘ |
| partOf |
Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
ⓘ
surface form:
Southeastern Conference men's basketball season
college basketball postseason ⓘ |
| region |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Southeastern United States
|
| relatedCompetition |
NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
SEC men's basketball regular season ⓘ |
| seedingBasis | regular-season SEC standings ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| sportCategory | men's college basketball ⓘ |
| teamSport | true ⓘ |
| ticketType | public ticketed event ⓘ |
| typicalMonthPlayed | March ⓘ |
| winnerReceives | automatic qualifier to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament ⓘ |
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: SEC Men's Basketball Tournament Description of subject: The SEC Men's Basketball Tournament is the postseason conference championship event that determines the Southeastern Conference's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
SEC Tournament
this entity surface form:
SEC Tournament
Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
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alsoKnownAs
→
SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
ⓘ
Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
→
alsoKnownAs
→
SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
SEC Tournament
this entity surface form:
SEC men's basketball tournament
this entity surface form:
SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament
this entity surface form:
SEC men's basketball tournament
this entity surface form:
SEC men's basketball tournament