Harris Interactive Poll
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Harris Interactive Poll is a major public opinion survey conducted by the Harris Interactive market research firm, known for its role in ranking college football teams in the Bowl Championship Series era.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harris Interactive | 2 |
| Harris Interactive Poll canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2682435 — 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: Harris Interactive Poll Context triple: [BCS, humanPoll, Harris Interactive Poll]
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A.
Pollster.com
Pollster.com is a political polling aggregation and analysis website co-founded by Charles Franklin that compiles and visualizes public opinion data, particularly around elections.
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B.
Marquette Law School Poll
The Marquette Law School Poll is a widely cited public opinion survey program known for its in-depth, methodologically rigorous polling on Wisconsin and national political issues.
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C.
American National Election Studies
The American National Election Studies is a long-running, authoritative research program that conducts in-depth surveys of U.S. voters to analyze political attitudes, behavior, and electoral outcomes.
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D.
Rasmussen Reports
Rasmussen Reports is an American polling and survey research firm known for its public opinion polls on politics, elections, and current events.
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E.
George Gallup
George Gallup was an American pioneer of public opinion polling and the founder of the Gallup organization, which became globally influential in measuring and analyzing public attitudes.
- 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: Harris Interactive Poll Target entity description: Harris Interactive Poll is a major public opinion survey conducted by the Harris Interactive market research firm, known for its role in ranking college football teams in the Bowl Championship Series era.
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A.
Pollster.com
Pollster.com is a political polling aggregation and analysis website co-founded by Charles Franklin that compiles and visualizes public opinion data, particularly around elections.
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B.
Marquette Law School Poll
The Marquette Law School Poll is a widely cited public opinion survey program known for its in-depth, methodologically rigorous polling on Wisconsin and national political issues.
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C.
American National Election Studies
The American National Election Studies is a long-running, authoritative research program that conducts in-depth surveys of U.S. voters to analyze political attitudes, behavior, and electoral outcomes.
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D.
Rasmussen Reports
Rasmussen Reports is an American polling and survey research firm known for its public opinion polls on politics, elections, and current events.
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E.
George Gallup
George Gallup was an American pioneer of public opinion polling and the founder of the Gallup organization, which became globally influential in measuring and analyzing public attitudes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
BCS ranking component
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college football poll ⓘ human opinion survey ⓘ |
| componentOf |
BCS formula
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linked to:
BCS
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dataType | human voter rankings ⓘ |
| endTime | 2013 ⓘ |
| inceptionContext | created after AP requested removal from BCS formula ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| league |
NCAA Division I FBS
ⓘ
linked to:
Football Bowl Subdivision
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| notableFor |
replacing media poll in official BCS calculations
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role in determining BCS national championship game participants ⓘ |
| numberOfVoters | approximately 114 ⓘ |
| operator |
Harris Interactive
ⓘ
linked to:
Harris Interactive Poll
|
| pollFrequency | weekly during the college football season ⓘ |
| publisher |
Harris Interactive
ⓘ
linked to:
Harris Interactive Poll
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| rankingRange | top 25 teams ⓘ |
| reasonForEnd | discontinuation of the BCS system ⓘ |
| replaced | AP Poll in the BCS formula ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
College Football Playoff selection committee rankings
ⓘ
linked to:
College Football Playoff Selection Committee
|
| selectionMethod |
panel of college football administrators
ⓘ
panel of former coaches ⓘ panel of former players ⓘ panel of media members ⓘ |
| sport | college football ⓘ |
| startTime | 2005 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
determining BCS standings
ⓘ
ranking NCAA Division I FBS college football teams ⓘ |
| usedInSystem | Bowl Championship Series ⓘ |
| weightInBCSFormula | one-third of the BCS standings ⓘ |
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: Harris Interactive Poll Description of subject: Harris Interactive Poll is a major public opinion survey conducted by the Harris Interactive market research firm, known for its role in ranking college football teams in the Bowl Championship Series era.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Harris Interactive Poll
linked to: Harris Interactive Poll