Providence Friars men's basketball
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Providence Friars men's basketball is the NCAA Division I men's basketball program of Providence College, competing in the Big East Conference and known for its rich history and passionate fan base.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1535309 — 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: Providence Friars men's basketball Context triple: [Richard Pitino, memberOfSportsTeamCoached, Providence Friars men's basketball]
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Providence Friars men's ice hockey
Providence Friars men's ice hockey is the NCAA Division I men's ice hockey program of Providence College, known for its competitive Hockey East play and 2015 national championship.
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Providence College
Providence College is a private Roman Catholic university in Providence, Rhode Island, known for its strong liberal arts education and competitive NCAA Division I athletics program.
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Maine Celtics
The Maine Celtics are the NBA G League developmental team for the Boston Celtics, based in Portland, Maine.
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Providence Steamrollers
The Providence Steamrollers were a short-lived professional basketball team that competed in the Basketball Association of America, a precursor to the modern NBA, during the late 1940s.
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Boston College Eagles men’s basketball
Boston College Eagles men’s basketball is the NCAA Division I men’s basketball program of Boston College, competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference and representing the school in major collegiate basketball competitions.
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- 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: Providence Friars men's basketball Target entity description: Providence Friars men's basketball is the NCAA Division I men's basketball program of Providence College, competing in the Big East Conference and known for its rich history and passionate fan base.
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Providence Friars men's ice hockey
Providence Friars men's ice hockey is the NCAA Division I men's ice hockey program of Providence College, known for its competitive Hockey East play and 2015 national championship.
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Providence College
Providence College is a private Roman Catholic university in Providence, Rhode Island, known for its strong liberal arts education and competitive NCAA Division I athletics program.
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Maine Celtics
The Maine Celtics are the NBA G League developmental team for the Boston Celtics, based in Portland, Maine.
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Providence Steamrollers
The Providence Steamrollers were a short-lived professional basketball team that competed in the Basketball Association of America, a precursor to the modern NBA, during the late 1940s.
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Boston College Eagles men’s basketball
Boston College Eagles men’s basketball is the NCAA Division I men’s basketball program of Boston College, competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference and representing the school in major collegiate basketball competitions.
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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.
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Subject: Providence Friars men's basketball Description of subject: Providence Friars men's basketball is the NCAA Division I men's basketball program of Providence College, competing in the Big East Conference and known for its rich history and passionate fan base.
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