Football Bowl Subdivision
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The Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) is the highest level of NCAA Division I college football in the United States, featuring the largest programs and culminating in major bowl games and the College Football Playoff.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T183418 — 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: Football Bowl Subdivision Context triple: [Arizona Wildcats football team, subdivision, Football Bowl Subdivision]
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A.
NCAA Division I Football Championship Game
The NCAA Division I Football Championship Game is the annual title contest that determines the national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
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College Football Playoff
The College Football Playoff is the postseason system that determines the national champion of top-tier U.S. college football through a bracket-style tournament of elite teams.
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C.
Bowl Championship Series
The Bowl Championship Series was a former system used in NCAA Division I FBS college football to determine national championship matchups and major bowl game participants through a combination of polls and computer rankings.
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NCAA Division I FCS
NCAA Division I FCS is the second tier of top-level college football in the United States, featuring schools that offer fewer athletic scholarships than the higher-profile FBS and that compete in an NCAA-run playoff to determine a national champion.
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E.
NCAA Division I
NCAA Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States, featuring the largest and most competitive college sports programs.
- 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: Football Bowl Subdivision Target entity description: The Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) is the highest level of NCAA Division I college football in the United States, featuring the largest programs and culminating in major bowl games and the College Football Playoff.
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A.
NCAA Division I Football Championship Game
The NCAA Division I Football Championship Game is the annual title contest that determines the national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
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B.
College Football Playoff
The College Football Playoff is the postseason system that determines the national champion of top-tier U.S. college football through a bracket-style tournament of elite teams.
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C.
Bowl Championship Series
The Bowl Championship Series was a former system used in NCAA Division I FBS college football to determine national championship matchups and major bowl game participants through a combination of polls and computer rankings.
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D.
NCAA Division I FCS
NCAA Division I FCS is the second tier of top-level college football in the United States, featuring schools that offer fewer athletic scholarships than the higher-profile FBS and that compete in an NCAA-run playoff to determine a national champion.
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NCAA Division I
NCAA Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States, featuring the largest and most competitive college sports programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA football subdivision
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college football division ⓘ sports competition level ⓘ |
| abbreviation | FBS ⓘ |
| broadcastOn | national television networks ⓘ |
| championshipDetermination | College Football Playoff ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| distinguishedFrom |
FCS
ⓘ
NCAA Division I FCS ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision
|
| eligibility |
National Collegiate Athletic Association
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA member institutions
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| fullName |
Football Bowl Subdivision
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
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| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| hasConference |
American Athletic Conference
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Atlantic Coast Conference ⓘ Big 12 Conference ⓘ Big Ten Conference ⓘ Conference USA ⓘ Mid-American Conference ⓘ Mountain West Conference ⓘ Pac-12 Conference ⓘ Southeastern Conference ⓘ Sun Belt Conference ⓘ independent schools ⓘ |
| hasDraftRelationshipWith | National Football League ⓘ |
| levelOfPlay | highest level of NCAA college football ⓘ |
| maximumScholarshipsPerTeam | 85 ⓘ |
| minimumAttendanceRequirement | 15,000 average home attendance over a rolling two-year period ⓘ |
| nameChangeFrom |
Football Bowl Subdivision
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Division I-A
|
| nameChangeYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| numberOfTeams | 134 ⓘ |
| organizes |
New Year’s Six bowls
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surface form:
New Year’s Six bowl games
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| overtimeRuleType | NCAA college football overtime rules ⓘ |
| partOf | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| postseasonFormat |
College Football Playoff
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bowl games ⓘ conference championship games ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Football Bowl Subdivision
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I-A
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| primaryFeederTo |
National Football League
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surface form:
NFL
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| recruitingScope | national ⓘ |
| relatedCompetition |
College Football Playoff
ⓘ
surface form:
College Football Playoff National Championship
|
| revenueLevel | highest revenue level in college football ⓘ |
| ruleSet | NCAA football rules ⓘ |
| season | fall ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| talentLevel | highest overall talent level in college football ⓘ |
| teamComposition | college and university teams ⓘ |
| typicalSeasonMonths | August to January ⓘ |
| usesScholarships | yes ⓘ |
| website | https://www.ncaa.com/sports/football/fbs ⓘ |
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: Football Bowl Subdivision Description of subject: The Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) is the highest level of NCAA Division I college football in the United States, featuring the largest programs and culminating in major bowl games and the College Football Playoff.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
subject surface form:
Southeastern Conference
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I-A
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NCAA Division I-A
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NCAA Division I football
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NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS independent
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NCAA Division I FBS
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NCAA Division I FBS national champion
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I-A football
subject surface form:
Arizona Wildcats football
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I-A
this entity surface form:
Division I-A
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS football
this entity surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS