The Marquette Band
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The Marquette Band is the spirited student musical ensemble that performs at Marquette University athletic events, especially men's basketball games, to energize the crowd and support the team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Marquette Band canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2523018 — 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: The Marquette Band Context triple: [Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball, studentSectionName, The Marquette Band]
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A.
Michigan Marching Band
The Michigan Marching Band is the University of Michigan’s renowned collegiate marching ensemble, known for its elaborate halftime shows, precision formations, and central role in the game-day atmosphere at Michigan Stadium.
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B.
Big Red Marching Band
The Big Red Marching Band is Cornell University's spirited collegiate marching band, known for performing at athletic events and campus traditions.
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C.
Penn State Blue Band
The Penn State Blue Band is the renowned marching band of Pennsylvania State University, known for its performances at Nittany Lions football games and other major university events.
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D.
Oregon State University Marching Band
The Oregon State University Marching Band is the collegiate marching ensemble that performs at Oregon State athletic events and university functions, known for its spirited support of the Beavers and dynamic field shows.
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E.
Penn Band
Penn Band is the University of Pennsylvania’s marching and pep band, known for performing at athletic events and campus functions with spirited music and traditions.
- 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: The Marquette Band Target entity description: The Marquette Band is the spirited student musical ensemble that performs at Marquette University athletic events, especially men's basketball games, to energize the crowd and support the team.
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A.
Michigan Marching Band
The Michigan Marching Band is the University of Michigan’s renowned collegiate marching ensemble, known for its elaborate halftime shows, precision formations, and central role in the game-day atmosphere at Michigan Stadium.
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B.
Big Red Marching Band
The Big Red Marching Band is Cornell University's spirited collegiate marching band, known for performing at athletic events and campus traditions.
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C.
Penn State Blue Band
The Penn State Blue Band is the renowned marching band of Pennsylvania State University, known for its performances at Nittany Lions football games and other major university events.
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D.
Oregon State University Marching Band
The Oregon State University Marching Band is the collegiate marching ensemble that performs at Oregon State athletic events and university functions, known for its spirited support of the Beavers and dynamic field shows.
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E.
Penn Band
Penn Band is the University of Pennsylvania’s marching and pep band, known for performing at athletic events and campus functions with spirited music and traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
student musical ensemble
ⓘ
university pep band ⓘ |
| activity | performing live music at sporting events ⓘ |
| affiliation | Marquette University ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Marquette Golden Eagles athletics
ⓘ
Marquette University student life ⓘ |
| audience | fans at Marquette athletic events ⓘ |
| composition | student musicians ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre | pep band music ⓘ |
| language | instrumental music ⓘ |
| location |
Milwaukee
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surface form:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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| performsAt |
Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball games
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Marquette University athletic events ⓘ |
| playsDuring | home basketball games ⓘ |
| purpose |
energize the crowd
ⓘ
support the team ⓘ |
| role | spirit organization ⓘ |
| supports |
Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball
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surface form:
Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball team
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| typeOf | college athletic band ⓘ |
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: The Marquette Band Description of subject: The Marquette Band is the spirited student musical ensemble that performs at Marquette University athletic events, especially men's basketball games, to energize the crowd and support the team.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.