Ratings Percentage Index
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The Ratings Percentage Index is a statistical ranking system used in U.S. college sports to evaluate and compare teams based on their wins, losses, and strength of schedule.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ratings Percentage Index canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T735565 — 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: Ratings Percentage Index Context triple: [NCAA Division I Baseball Committee, usesMetric, Ratings Percentage Index]
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A.
RSI
RSI is the acronym for the Italian Social Republic, the German-backed fascist puppet state led by Benito Mussolini in northern Italy from 1943 to 1945.
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B.
NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET)
The NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) is the primary ranking and assessment system used to evaluate and seed Division I men’s college basketball teams for the NCAA Tournament.
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C.
S&P 90 Index
The S&P 90 Index was an early U.S. stock market index composed of 90 leading companies, serving as a precursor to the broader S&P 500.
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D.
PSI
PSI is the acronym commonly used for the Italian Socialist Party, a historic socialist political party in Italy.
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E.
RAD
RAD is a radiation assessment detector aboard NASA's Curiosity rover that measures high-energy particles on Mars’ surface to evaluate the planet’s radiation environment and its implications for future human exploration.
- 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: Ratings Percentage Index Target entity description: The Ratings Percentage Index is a statistical ranking system used in U.S. college sports to evaluate and compare teams based on their wins, losses, and strength of schedule.
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A.
RSI
RSI is the acronym for the Italian Social Republic, the German-backed fascist puppet state led by Benito Mussolini in northern Italy from 1943 to 1945.
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B.
NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET)
The NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) is the primary ranking and assessment system used to evaluate and seed Division I men’s college basketball teams for the NCAA Tournament.
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C.
S&P 90 Index
The S&P 90 Index was an early U.S. stock market index composed of 90 leading companies, serving as a precursor to the broader S&P 500.
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D.
PSI
PSI is the acronym commonly used for the Italian Socialist Party, a historic socialist political party in Italy.
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E.
RAD
RAD is a radiation assessment detector aboard NASA's Curiosity rover that measures high-energy particles on Mars’ surface to evaluate the planet’s radiation environment and its implications for future human exploration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college sports ranking system
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sports rating system ⓘ statistical ranking system ⓘ |
| abbreviation | RPI ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
college teams
ⓘ
regular season results ⓘ |
| basedOn |
opponents’ opponents’ winning percentage
ⓘ
opponents’ winning percentage ⓘ team winning percentage ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| criticizedFor |
insufficient margin-of-victory information
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lack of transparency to the public ⓘ overemphasis on strength of schedule ⓘ |
| developedFor | NCAA tournament selection ⓘ |
| domain | college athletics ⓘ |
| field |
sports analytics
ⓘ
sports statistics ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
opponents’ opponents’ winning percentage
ⓘ
opponents’ winning percentage ⓘ winning percentage ⓘ |
| hasScope | Division I competition ⓘ |
| hasType | computer-based ranking ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableChange | deemphasized after adoption of NCAA Evaluation Tool in Division I men’s basketball ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
team comparison
ⓘ
team evaluation ⓘ tournament seeding tool ⓘ tournament selection tool ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET)
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Evaluation Tool
|
| shortName | RPI ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 20th century ⓘ |
| usedBy |
NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee
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surface form:
NCAA selection committees
National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| usedFor |
ranking college baseball teams
ⓘ
ranking college basketball teams ⓘ ranking college soccer teams ⓘ ranking college softball teams ⓘ ranking college volleyball teams ⓘ |
| usedIn |
NCAA Division I Baseball
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surface form:
NCAA Division I baseball
NCAA basketball ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I men’s basketball
NCAA Division I ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I soccer
NCAA Division I softball ⓘ NCAA women's volleyball ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I volleyball
NCAA women’s basketball ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I women’s basketball
U.S. college sports ⓘ |
| usesMetric |
losses
ⓘ
strength of schedule ⓘ wins ⓘ |
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: Ratings Percentage Index Description of subject: The Ratings Percentage Index is a statistical ranking system used in U.S. college sports to evaluate and compare teams based on their wins, losses, and strength of schedule.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
NCAA Evaluation Tool