2008 Orange Bowl
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The 2008 Orange Bowl was a major college football bowl game in which the Kansas Jayhawks, led by quarterback Todd Reesing, defeated the Virginia Tech Hokies to cap one of the best seasons in school history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 2008 Orange Bowl canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11271178 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: 2008 Orange Bowl Context triple: [Todd Reesing, notableGame, 2008 Orange Bowl]
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Citrus Bowl
The Citrus Bowl is a long-standing annual college football bowl game traditionally held in Orlando, Florida.
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B.
GoDaddy.com Bowl
The GoDaddy.com Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game played annually in Mobile, Alabama, featuring teams from the Football Bowl Subdivision.
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Tampa Bay Bowl
The Tampa Bay Bowl is a long-running college football postseason bowl game held annually in the Tampa Bay area of Florida.
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Gator Bowl
The Gator Bowl is a long-running annual college football bowl game traditionally played in Jacksonville, Florida.
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E.
Peach Bowl
The Peach Bowl is a major annual college football postseason game in Atlanta that serves as one of the rotating New Year’s Six bowls within the College Football Playoff system.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: 2008 Orange Bowl Target entity description: The 2008 Orange Bowl was a major college football bowl game in which the Kansas Jayhawks, led by quarterback Todd Reesing, defeated the Virginia Tech Hokies to cap one of the best seasons in school history.
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A.
Citrus Bowl
The Citrus Bowl is a long-standing annual college football bowl game traditionally held in Orlando, Florida.
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B.
GoDaddy.com Bowl
The GoDaddy.com Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game played annually in Mobile, Alabama, featuring teams from the Football Bowl Subdivision.
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C.
Tampa Bay Bowl
The Tampa Bay Bowl is a long-running college football postseason bowl game held annually in the Tampa Bay area of Florida.
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D.
Gator Bowl
The Gator Bowl is a long-running annual college football bowl game traditionally played in Jacksonville, Florida.
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E.
Peach Bowl
The Peach Bowl is a major annual college football postseason game in Atlanta that serves as one of the rotating New Year’s Six bowls within the College Football Playoff system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Orange Bowl
ⓘ
college football bowl game ⓘ |
| attendance | 74211 ⓘ |
| awayTeam | Kansas Jayhawks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city | Miami Gardens, Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| date | January 3, 2008 ⓘ |
| finalScore | Kansas 24–Virginia Tech 21 ⓘ |
| homeTeam | Virginia Tech Hokies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isBCSBowlGame | true ⓘ |
| KansasAPRankEnteringGame | No. 8 ⓘ |
| KansasBCSRankingEnteringGame | No. 8 ⓘ |
| KansasBestSeasonInSchoolHistoryClaim | one of the best seasons in Kansas football history ⓘ |
| KansasConference | Big 12 Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| KansasFirstBCSBowlAppearance | true ⓘ |
| KansasHeadCoach | Mark Mangino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| KansasQuarterback | Todd Reesing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| KansasScore | 24 ⓘ |
| KansasSeasonRecordAfterBowl | 12–1 ⓘ |
| KansasSeasonRecordBeforeBowl | 11–1 ⓘ |
| loser | Virginia Tech Hokies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mostValuablePlayer |
Aqib Talib
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joe Mortensen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nextOrangeBowl | 2009 Orange Bowl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePlay | Aqib Talib 60-yard interception return for touchdown ⓘ |
| officialName | FedEx Orange Bowl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| payoutPerTeam | 17000000 ⓘ |
| previousOrangeBowl | 2007 Orange Bowl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| referee | Jack Childress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refereeConference | Atlantic Coast Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seasonNumberForOrangeBowl | 74 ⓘ |
| seasonOf | 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season ⓘ |
| stadium | Dolphin Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Florida ⓘ |
| televisionAnnouncers |
Charles Davis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jared Lorenzen NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeanne Zelasko NERFINISHED ⓘ Matt Vasgersian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| televisionNetwork | FOX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleSponsor | FedEx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| VirginiaTechAPRankEnteringGame | No. 5 ⓘ |
| VirginiaTechBCSBowlAppearanceNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| VirginiaTechBCSRankingEnteringGame | No. 3 ⓘ |
| VirginiaTechConference | Atlantic Coast Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| VirginiaTechHeadCoach | Frank Beamer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| VirginiaTechScore | 21 ⓘ |
| VirginiaTechSeasonRecordAfterBowl | 11–3 ⓘ |
| VirginiaTechSeasonRecordBeforeBowl | 11–2 ⓘ |
| winner | Kansas Jayhawks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| year | 2008 ⓘ |
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: 2008 Orange Bowl Description of subject: The 2008 Orange Bowl was a major college football bowl game in which the Kansas Jayhawks, led by quarterback Todd Reesing, defeated the Virginia Tech Hokies to cap one of the best seasons in school history.
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