NET
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NET is the NCAA’s primary ranking system used to evaluate and seed college basketball teams for postseason tournaments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NET canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4129033 — 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: NET Context triple: [NCAA Evaluation Tool, abbreviation, NET]
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A.
NET
NET was a U.S. public television network that served as the primary national distributor of educational and cultural programming before being succeeded by PBS.
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B.
Network
Network is a 1976 satirical drama film directed by Sidney Lumet that critiques television news and media sensationalism.
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C.
NIC
NIC is an abbreviation commonly used to refer to North Infirmary Command, a medical or correctional facility unit.
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D.
NIC
NIC is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Nicaragua.
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E.
NIC
NIC is the commonly used abbreviation for the United Kingdom’s National Infrastructure Commission, an independent body that advises the government on long-term infrastructure strategy and investment.
- 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: NET Target entity description: NET is the NCAA’s primary ranking system used to evaluate and seed college basketball teams for postseason tournaments.
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A.
NET
NET was a U.S. public television network that served as the primary national distributor of educational and cultural programming before being succeeded by PBS.
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B.
Network
Network is a 1976 satirical drama film directed by Sidney Lumet that critiques television news and media sensationalism.
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C.
NIC
NIC is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Nicaragua.
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D.
NIC
NIC is an abbreviation commonly used to refer to North Infirmary Command, a medical or correctional facility unit.
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E.
NIC
NIC is the commonly used abbreviation for the United Kingdom’s National Infrastructure Commission, an independent body that advises the government on long-term infrastructure strategy and investment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA evaluation tool
ⓘ
college basketball ranking system ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf |
NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET)
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Evaluation Tool
|
| appliesToDivision | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| capValueForScoringMargin | +10 points per game ⓘ |
| considers |
efficiency margin adjusted for opponent and location
ⓘ
game date minimally or not at all after 2020 revision ⓘ |
| excludesFromCalculation |
exhibition games
ⓘ
scrimmages ⓘ |
| fullName |
NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET)
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Evaluation Tool
|
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| includesComponent |
game location
ⓘ
game results ⓘ net defensive efficiency ⓘ net offensive efficiency ⓘ quality of wins and losses ⓘ scoring margin (capped) ⓘ strength of schedule ⓘ |
| initialVersionIncluded |
overall efficiency metric
ⓘ
team value index (TVI) ⓘ |
| introducedBy |
NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Men’s Basketball Committee
|
| introducedInSeason | 2018–19 NCAA Division I men’s basketball season ⓘ |
| metricType |
predictive and results-based hybrid metric
ⓘ
results-based ranking system ⓘ |
| organizesGamesInto |
Quadrant 1
ⓘ
Quadrant 2 ⓘ Quadrant 3 ⓘ Quadrant 4 ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
NCAA tournament selection
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship selection
NCAA tournament selection ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship selection
|
| publiclyAvailable | yes ⓘ |
| quadrantDefinitionDependsOn |
game location
ⓘ
opponent NET ranking ⓘ |
| rankingUpdateFrequency | daily during the season ⓘ |
| replaced | Ratings Percentage Index ⓘ |
| replacedAsPrimaryMetric | RPI in NCAA selection process ⓘ |
| revisedInYear | 2020 ⓘ |
| revisionChange | simplified to focus on adjusted net efficiency and results-based components ⓘ |
| scope |
conference tournament games
ⓘ
regular-season games ⓘ |
| sport | college basketball ⓘ |
| usedBy |
NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee
ⓘ
NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee ⓘ |
| usedFor |
evaluating teams for NCAA postseason tournaments
ⓘ
ranking NCAA Division I men’s basketball teams ⓘ ranking NCAA Division I women’s basketball teams ⓘ seeding teams in NCAA basketball tournaments ⓘ |
| usesCapOn | scoring margin ⓘ |
| usesQuadrantSystemWith | team sheets ⓘ |
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: NET Description of subject: NET is the NCAA’s primary ranking system used to evaluate and seed college basketball teams for postseason tournaments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
NCAA Evaluation Tool