MAC East Division
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The MAC East Division is one of the two football divisions of the NCAA Division I Mid-American Conference, featuring member schools primarily located in the eastern portion of the conference’s geographic footprint.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MAC East | 1 |
| MAC East Division canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10277099 — 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: MAC East Division Context triple: [Miami RedHawks football, subdivision, MAC East Division]
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Eastern 8 Conference
The Eastern 8 Conference was a collegiate athletic conference in the eastern United States that later evolved into what is now known as the Atlantic 10 Conference.
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B.
SEC Eastern Division
The SEC Eastern Division is one of the two baseball divisions in the Southeastern Conference, featuring member schools primarily located in the eastern portion of the league’s geographic footprint.
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C.
Sunshine State Conference
The Sunshine State Conference is an NCAA Division II collegiate athletic conference composed primarily of private institutions in Florida, known for strong programs in sports such as basketball, soccer, and baseball.
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D.
Skyline Conference
The Skyline Conference is an NCAA Division III collegiate athletic conference composed primarily of small private institutions in the New York metropolitan region.
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E.
SWAC West Division
The SWAC West Division is one of the two football divisions in the Southwestern Athletic Conference, grouping together historically Black colleges and universities from the western portion of the league.
- 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: MAC East Division Target entity description: The MAC East Division is one of the two football divisions of the NCAA Division I Mid-American Conference, featuring member schools primarily located in the eastern portion of the conference’s geographic footprint.
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A.
Eastern 8 Conference
The Eastern 8 Conference was a collegiate athletic conference in the eastern United States that later evolved into what is now known as the Atlantic 10 Conference.
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B.
SEC Eastern Division
The SEC Eastern Division is one of the two baseball divisions in the Southeastern Conference, featuring member schools primarily located in the eastern portion of the league’s geographic footprint.
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C.
Sunshine State Conference
The Sunshine State Conference is an NCAA Division II collegiate athletic conference composed primarily of private institutions in Florida, known for strong programs in sports such as basketball, soccer, and baseball.
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D.
Skyline Conference
The Skyline Conference is an NCAA Division III collegiate athletic conference composed primarily of small private institutions in the New York metropolitan region.
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E.
SWAC West Division
The SWAC West Division is one of the two football divisions in the Southwestern Athletic Conference, grouping together historically Black colleges and universities from the western portion of the league.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college football division
ⓘ
sports division ⓘ |
| championshipQualification | division champion plays in MAC Championship Game ⓘ |
| collegeAthleticsAssociation | NCAA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | NCAA Division I FBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conference | Mid-American Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| confersTitle | MAC East Division champion ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| currentMember |
Akron Zips football
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bowling Green Falcons football NERFINISHED ⓘ Buffalo Bulls football NERFINISHED ⓘ Kent State Golden Flashes football NERFINISHED ⓘ Miami RedHawks football NERFINISHED ⓘ Ohio Bobcats football NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| determinesBowlTieInsVia | Mid-American Conference bowl agreements ⓘ |
| determinesStandingsBy | conference win-loss record ⓘ |
| divisionCountInConference | 2 ⓘ |
| formerMember |
Temple Owls football
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
UCF Knights football NERFINISHED ⓘ UMass Minutemen football NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | men's football ⓘ |
| geographicFocus | eastern portion of Mid-American Conference footprint ⓘ |
| governingBody | Mid-American Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMediaCoverage |
online streaming
ⓘ
radio ⓘ television ⓘ |
| hasRivalries | regional rivalries among member schools ⓘ |
| hasSisterDivision | MAC West Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesBowlEligibleTeams | yes GENERATED ⓘ |
| languageOfCompetition | English ⓘ |
| levelOfPlay | major college football ⓘ |
| memberType | university football programs ⓘ |
| organizes | intra-division conference games ⓘ |
| participatesIn | Mid-American Conference Football Championship Game NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Mid-American Conference
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NCAA Division I FBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postseasonPath | conference championship and bowl games ⓘ |
| region |
Midwest
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Northeast ⓘ |
| seasonFormat | regular-season round-robin within conference schedule ⓘ |
| seasonTiming | fall ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| sportType | gridiron football ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Mid-American Conference football NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamSport | yes ⓘ |
| tieBreakerForChampionship | MAC football tiebreaker rules ⓘ |
| usesNCAARules | yes ⓘ |
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: MAC East Division Description of subject: The MAC East Division is one of the two football divisions of the NCAA Division I Mid-American Conference, featuring member schools primarily located in the eastern portion of the conference’s geographic footprint.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
MAC East