USA Swimming
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USA Swimming is the national governing body for competitive swimming in the United States, overseeing athlete development, competitions, and Olympic team selection.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| United States national swimming team | 4 |
| United States Olympic swimming team | 2 |
| USA Swimming canonical | 1 |
| USA Swimming National Championships | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1415279 — 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: USA Swimming Context triple: [Colorado Springs, Colorado, headquartersLocationOf, USA Swimming]
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A.
National Swimming Academy
The National Swimming Academy is a premier aquatic training and performance center associated with the University of Stirling, supporting elite swimmers and swimming development programs.
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B.
United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee is the national governing body responsible for organizing and supporting U.S. participation in the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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C.
NCAA Division I (women’s swimming and diving)
NCAA Division I (women’s swimming and diving) is the highest level of intercollegiate women’s swimming and diving competition in the United States, featuring top university programs governed by the NCAA.
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D.
Ivy League women’s swimming and diving
Ivy League women’s swimming and diving is the collegiate athletic conference that organizes and governs women’s swimming and diving competition among its eight member universities in the Northeastern United States.
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E.
USASOC
USASOC is the U.S. Army’s major command responsible for overseeing and coordinating all Army special operations forces, including units like the Green Berets, Rangers, and special operations aviation.
- 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: USA Swimming Target entity description: USA Swimming is the national governing body for competitive swimming in the United States, overseeing athlete development, competitions, and Olympic team selection.
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A.
National Swimming Academy
The National Swimming Academy is a premier aquatic training and performance center associated with the University of Stirling, supporting elite swimmers and swimming development programs.
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B.
United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee is the national governing body responsible for organizing and supporting U.S. participation in the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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C.
NCAA Division I (women’s swimming and diving)
NCAA Division I (women’s swimming and diving) is the highest level of intercollegiate women’s swimming and diving competition in the United States, featuring top university programs governed by the NCAA.
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D.
Ivy League women’s swimming and diving
Ivy League women’s swimming and diving is the collegiate athletic conference that organizes and governs women’s swimming and diving competition among its eight member universities in the Northeastern United States.
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E.
USASOC
USASOC is the U.S. Army’s major command responsible for overseeing and coordinating all Army special operations forces, including units like the Green Berets, Rangers, and special operations aviation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
national governing body
ⓘ
nonprofit organization ⓘ sports organization ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith |
United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee
ⓘ
World Aquatics ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focusesOn |
Olympic swimming success for the United States
ⓘ
grassroots development of swimming in the United States ⓘ |
| governs | rules of competitive swimming in the United States ⓘ |
| governsSport |
competitive swimming
ⓘ
open water swimming ⓘ pool swimming ⓘ |
| hasMemberType |
athletes
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coaches ⓘ officials ⓘ swim clubs ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
Safe Sport program
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club development programs ⓘ coach education programs ⓘ elite athlete high performance programs ⓘ national age-group swimming programs ⓘ officials education and certification programs ⓘ |
| hasType | membership-based organization ⓘ |
| headquartersCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| headquartersLocation | Colorado Springs, Colorado ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| maintains |
American swimming records
ⓘ
USA Swimming membership database ⓘ |
| memberOf |
United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee National Governing Bodies Council
ⓘ
World Aquatics ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| organizes |
Junior National Championships
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Open Water National Championships ⓘ Pro Swim Series ⓘ U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming ⓘ USA Swimming self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
USA Swimming National Championships
|
| oversees |
athlete development in swimming in the United States
ⓘ
national swimming competitions in the United States ⓘ selection of United States World Championships swimming teams ⓘ selection of the United States Olympic swimming team ⓘ |
| promotes |
competitive excellence in swimming
ⓘ
participation in swimming across the United States ⓘ safety in swimming ⓘ |
| replaced |
AAU Swimming
ⓘ
surface form:
Amateur Athletic Union swimming governance in the United States
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| role | national governing body for swimming in the United States ⓘ |
| selects |
USA Swimming
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Olympic swimming team
United States Pan American Games swimming team ⓘ United States Pan American Games swimming team ⓘ
surface form:
United States Pan Pacific Championships swimming team
United States World Championships swimming team ⓘ |
| sets | national time standards for swimming in the United States ⓘ |
| sport | swimming ⓘ |
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: USA Swimming Description of subject: USA Swimming is the national governing body for competitive swimming in the United States, overseeing athlete development, competitions, and Olympic team selection.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
United States national swimming team
subject surface form:
Michael Phelps
this entity surface form:
United States national swimming team
this entity surface form:
USA Swimming National Championships
this entity surface form:
United States Olympic swimming team
this entity surface form:
United States Olympic swimming team
this entity surface form:
United States national swimming team
this entity surface form:
United States national swimming team