Mountain West Conference
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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.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T243193 — 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)
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Target entity: Mountain West Conference Context triple: [New Mexico Lobos men's basketball, conference, Mountain West Conference]
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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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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.
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Big Sky Conference
The Big Sky Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference best known for sponsoring Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) programs across universities primarily in the western United States.
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Southland Conference
The Southland Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), primarily comprising universities from the South Central United States.
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E.
United Athletic Conference
The United Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) league that organizes and governs college football competition among its member institutions.
- 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: Mountain West Conference Target entity description: 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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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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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.
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Big Sky Conference
The Big Sky Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference best known for sponsoring Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) programs across universities primarily in the western United States.
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Southland Conference
The Southland Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), primarily comprising universities from the South Central United States.
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United Athletic Conference
The United Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) league that organizes and governs college football competition among its member institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA Division I conference
ⓘ
collegiate athletic conference ⓘ |
| athleticScholarships | offers athletic scholarships through member schools ⓘ |
| competitionCategory |
coed sports
ⓘ
men's sports ⓘ women's sports ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | Division I ⓘ |
| competitionSeason |
fall sports
ⓘ
spring sports ⓘ winter sports ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focus | intercollegiate athletics ⓘ |
| footballSubdivision | Football Bowl Subdivision ⓘ |
| gender | coeducational sports conference ⓘ |
| geographicFocus |
Mountain States
ⓘ
West Coast of the United States ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Coast states
southwestern United States ⓘ
surface form:
Southwestern United States
|
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| hasAssociateMemberType | associate members ⓘ |
| hasMemberCountType | full members ⓘ |
| hasMemberInstitutionType |
private university
ⓘ
public university ⓘ |
| hasPostseasonAccess |
FBS bowl games
ⓘ
NCAA national championships ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA championships
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberInstitutionLevel | four-year institutions ⓘ |
| organizes |
conference championships
ⓘ
regular season competition ⓘ |
| partOf | college sports in the United States ⓘ |
| regionServed |
western United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Western United States
|
| sponsorsSport |
baseball
ⓘ
cross country ⓘ football ⓘ golf ⓘ gymnastics ⓘ men's basketball ⓘ men's soccer ⓘ softball ⓘ swimming and diving ⓘ tennis ⓘ track and field ⓘ women's basketball ⓘ women's soccer ⓘ women's volleyball ⓘ |
| sport | college athletics ⓘ |
| subdivision |
NCAA Division I
ⓘ
NCAA Division I ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS
|
| televisionCoverage |
national sports networks
ⓘ
regional sports networks ⓘ |
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: Mountain West Conference Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (130)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
New Mexico Lobos men's basketball
this entity surface form:
Mountain States Conference
this entity surface form:
Mountain West Conference (women's soccer)
this entity surface form:
Mountain West Conference baseball
this entity surface form:
Mountain West Conference football
this entity surface form:
Mountain West Conference women's basketball