UMKC Kangaroos
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UMKC Kangaroos was the former name of the University of Missouri–Kansas City’s NCAA Division I athletic program, now known as the Kansas City Roos.
All labels observed (11)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3838875 — 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: UMKC Kangaroos Context triple: [Roos, formerName, UMKC Kangaroos]
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Wichita State Shockers
The Wichita State Shockers are the intercollegiate athletic teams of Wichita State University, best known nationally for their successful men's basketball program and distinctive "Shockers" identity rooted in the school's wheat-shocking heritage.
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B.
Saint Louis Billikens
The Saint Louis Billikens are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Saint Louis University in NCAA Division I competition.
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Creighton Bluejays
The Creighton Bluejays are the NCAA Division I athletic teams representing Creighton University, best known for their successful men's basketball program.
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Kentucky Colonels
The Kentucky Colonels were a professional basketball team based in Louisville that became one of the most successful and popular franchises in the original American Basketball Association during the late 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
WashU Bears
WashU Bears are the intercollegiate athletic teams representing Washington University in St. Louis, competing primarily in NCAA Division III.
- 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: UMKC Kangaroos Target entity description: UMKC Kangaroos was the former name of the University of Missouri–Kansas City’s NCAA Division I athletic program, now known as the Kansas City Roos.
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A.
Wichita State Shockers
The Wichita State Shockers are the intercollegiate athletic teams of Wichita State University, best known nationally for their successful men's basketball program and distinctive "Shockers" identity rooted in the school's wheat-shocking heritage.
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B.
Saint Louis Billikens
The Saint Louis Billikens are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Saint Louis University in NCAA Division I competition.
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C.
Creighton Bluejays
The Creighton Bluejays are the NCAA Division I athletic teams representing Creighton University, best known for their successful men's basketball program.
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Kentucky Colonels
The Kentucky Colonels were a professional basketball team based in Louisville that became one of the most successful and popular franchises in the original American Basketball Association during the late 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
WashU Bears
WashU Bears are the intercollegiate athletic teams representing Washington University in St. Louis, competing primarily in NCAA Division III.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA Division I athletics program
ⓘ
college athletic program ⓘ |
| affiliation | University of Missouri System ⓘ |
| athleticConference | Summit League ⓘ |
| athleticProgramOf | University of Missouri–Kansas City ⓘ |
| campus |
University of Missouri–Kansas City
ⓘ
surface form:
UMKC Health Sciences Campus
University of Missouri–Kansas City ⓘ
surface form:
UMKC Volker Campus
|
| city |
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Kansas City, Missouri
|
| competitionLevel | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| division | Division I ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Kansas City Roos ⓘ |
| gender |
men's teams
ⓘ
women's teams ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| homeCity |
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Kansas City, Missouri
|
| homeVenueFor |
UMKC Kangaroos
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
UMKC men's basketball
|
| leagueMembership |
Summit League
ⓘ
surface form:
Summit League cross country
Summit League golf ⓘ Summit League ⓘ
surface form:
Summit League men's basketball
Summit League ⓘ
surface form:
Summit League men's soccer
Summit League softball ⓘ NCAA Division I track and field ⓘ
surface form:
Summit League track and field
Summit League ⓘ
surface form:
Summit League volleyball
Summit League ⓘ
surface form:
Summit League women's basketball
Summit League women's soccer ⓘ |
| mascot |
Kangaroos
ⓘ
surface form:
Kangaroo
|
| nickname | Kangaroos ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| representedUniversity | University of Missouri–Kansas City ⓘ |
| shortName |
University of Missouri–Kansas City
ⓘ
surface form:
UMKC
|
| sport |
cross country
ⓘ
golf ⓘ men's basketball ⓘ men's soccer ⓘ softball ⓘ track and field ⓘ volleyball ⓘ women's basketball ⓘ women's soccer ⓘ |
| sportType | intercollegiate athletics ⓘ |
| status | former name ⓘ |
| teamColors |
blue
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gold ⓘ |
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: UMKC Kangaroos Description of subject: UMKC Kangaroos was the former name of the University of Missouri–Kansas City’s NCAA Division I athletic program, now known as the Kansas City Roos.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
UMKC Roos
this entity surface form:
UMKC athletics
this entity surface form:
UMKC men’s basketball team
this entity surface form:
UMKC women’s basketball team
this entity surface form:
UMKC volleyball team
this entity surface form:
UMKC track and field teams
this entity surface form:
UMKC men's basketball
this entity surface form:
UMKC Roos men's basketball team
this entity surface form:
UMKC Roos women's basketball team
this entity surface form:
UMKC Roos men's basketball team
this entity surface form:
UMKC Roos women's basketball team
this entity surface form:
UMKC Roos basketball teams