Big West Conference
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The Big West Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising universities from California and other parts of the western United States.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Big West Conference canonical | 63 |
| Big West | 1 |
| Big West Conference football | 1 |
| Big West Conference men's basketball | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1217102 — 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: Big West Conference Context triple: [University of California, Davis, athleticsConference, Big West Conference]
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A.
West Coast Conference
The West Coast Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily composed of private, faith-based universities located along the U.S. West Coast.
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Mountain West Conference
The Mountain West Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the NCAA's Division I, known for sponsoring a range of sports among universities primarily located in the western United States.
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C.
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division III athletic conference composed primarily of small, academically focused colleges and universities in Southern California.
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D.
Northwest Conference
The Northwest Conference is an NCAA Division III athletic conference composed primarily of small private colleges in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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E.
Western Athletic Conference
The Western Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that has historically sponsored competition in multiple NCAA sports across institutions primarily in the western region.
- 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: Big West Conference Target entity description: The Big West Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising universities from California and other parts of the western United States.
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A.
West Coast Conference
The West Coast Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily composed of private, faith-based universities located along the U.S. West Coast.
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B.
Mountain West Conference
The Mountain West Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the NCAA's Division I, known for sponsoring a range of sports among universities primarily located in the western United States.
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C.
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division III athletic conference composed primarily of small, academically focused colleges and universities in Southern California.
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D.
Northwest Conference
The Northwest Conference is an NCAA Division III athletic conference composed primarily of small private colleges in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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E.
Western Athletic Conference
The Western Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that has historically sponsored competition in multiple NCAA sports across institutions primarily in the western region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Big West Conference Description of subject: The Big West Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising universities from California and other parts of the western United States.
Referenced by (66)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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athleticsConference
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Big West Conference
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this entity surface form:
Big West Conference football
this entity surface form:
Big West
subject surface form:
California State University, Long Beach
subject surface form:
Cal Poly Mustangs
subject surface form:
Cal Poly Mustangs
subject surface form:
Cal Poly Mustangs
subject surface form:
Cal Poly Mustangs
subject surface form:
Cal Poly Mustangs
subject surface form:
Cal Poly Mustangs