Bill XXXVI
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Bill XXXVI is one of the official live goat mascots representing the United States Naval Academy at athletic events and ceremonies.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bill XXXVI canonical | 2 |
| Bill XXXIV in the Bill the Goat lineage | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4020462 — 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: Bill XXXVI Context triple: [Bill the Goat, hasMultipleVersions, Bill XXXVI]
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A.
Bill XXXVII
Bill XXXVII is one of the successive live goat mascots representing the United States Naval Academy at athletic events and ceremonies.
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B.
Hertzog Bills
Hertzog Bills are a series of controversial legislative proposals introduced by South African Prime Minister J. B. M. Hertzog in the 1920s aimed at redefining the political and racial order in the Union of South Africa.
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C.
Buckley
Buckley is a small city in Washington State known for its rural character and proximity to Mount Rainier.
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D.
Buckley
Buckley is a surname most prominently associated with William F. Buckley Jr., the influential American conservative author and founder of National Review.
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E.
Mr. Democracy
Mr. Democracy is a symbolic figure representing the ideals of democratic governance and political modernization championed by Chinese intellectuals during the May Fourth Movement.
- 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: Bill XXXVI Target entity description: Bill XXXVI is one of the official live goat mascots representing the United States Naval Academy at athletic events and ceremonies.
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A.
Bill XXXVII
Bill XXXVII is one of the successive live goat mascots representing the United States Naval Academy at athletic events and ceremonies.
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B.
Hertzog Bills
Hertzog Bills are a series of controversial legislative proposals introduced by South African Prime Minister J. B. M. Hertzog in the 1920s aimed at redefining the political and racial order in the Union of South Africa.
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C.
Buckley
Buckley is a small city in Washington State known for its rural character and proximity to Mount Rainier.
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D.
Buckley
Buckley is a surname most prominently associated with William F. Buckley Jr., the influential American conservative author and founder of National Review.
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E.
Mr. Democracy
Mr. Democracy is a symbolic figure representing the ideals of democratic governance and political modernization championed by Chinese intellectuals during the May Fourth Movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Naval Academy mascot
ⓘ
goat ⓘ live animal sports mascot ⓘ |
| affiliation |
United States Naval Academy
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Naval Academy Department of Athletics
|
| animalType | male goat ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Annapolis, Maryland, United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
Annapolis, Maryland
Brigade of Midshipmen ⓘ |
| category |
college sports mascot
ⓘ
military academy mascot ⓘ |
| commonName | Bill the Goat ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasNameElement |
Bill
ⓘ
XXXVI ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | United States Naval Academy ⓘ |
| mascotFor | United States Naval Academy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
appearing on the sidelines during Navy Midshipmen games
ⓘ
participating in pregame and halftime ceremonies ⓘ |
| ordinalNumber | 36 ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Bill the Goat
ⓘ
surface form:
Bill the Goat mascots
|
| predecessor | Bill XXXV ⓘ |
| represents |
Navy Midshipmen
ⓘ
United States Naval Academy athletic teams ⓘ |
| role | official live goat mascot ⓘ |
| species |
Capra hircus
ⓘ
surface form:
Capra aegagrus hircus
|
| symbolOf |
United States Navy traditions
ⓘ
spirit of the Brigade of Midshipmen ⓘ |
| usedAt |
United States Naval Academy football games
ⓘ
athletic events ⓘ ceremonies ⓘ |
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: Bill XXXVI Description of subject: Bill XXXVI is one of the official live goat mascots representing the United States Naval Academy at athletic events and ceremonies.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.