Tigers
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The Tigers are the athletic teams representing the Rochester Institute of Technology in intercollegiate sports.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tigers canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4507930 — 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: Tigers Context triple: [Rochester Institute of Technology, athleticsNickname, Tigers]
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A.
Tigers
Tigers is the nickname of the Hanshin Tigers, a professional Japanese baseball team based in the Kansai region and one of Nippon Professional Baseball’s most storied franchises.
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Tigers
The Tigers are the athletic teams of Princeton University, most famously represented by the Princeton Tigers men's basketball program known for its disciplined, strategic style of play.
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Tigers
The Tigers are a Major League Baseball team based in Detroit, Michigan, known for their long history, multiple World Series appearances, and passionate fan base.
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Tigers
Tigers are large, powerful carnivorous cats native to Asia, known for their distinctive orange coats with black stripes and their status as an endangered apex predator.
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Tigers
Tigers is the nickname and mascot for the athletic teams representing Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.
- 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: Tigers Target entity description: The Tigers are the athletic teams representing the Rochester Institute of Technology in intercollegiate sports.
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Tigers
The Tigers are the athletic teams representing Tennessee State University in collegiate sports competitions.
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Tigers
The Tigers are the athletic teams representing Auburn University in collegiate sports competitions.
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Tigers
The Tigers are the athletic teams representing Clemson University, best known for their prominent NCAA Division I football program and passionate fan base.
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Tigers
The Tigers are the athletic teams representing DePauw University in intercollegiate sports.
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Tigers
Tigers is the nickname and mascot used for the athletic teams representing Olivet Nazarene University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA athletic team
ⓘ
college athletic program ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Rochester Institute of Technology athletics department
ⓘ
linked to:
Rochester Institute of Technology
|
| campus |
RIT Henrietta campus
ⓘ
linked to:
Rochester Institute of Technology
|
| conferenceForSport |
College Hockey America for women's ice hockey
ⓘ
linked to:
College Hockey America
ECAC Hockey for men's ice hockey ⓘ
linked to:
ECAC Hockey
Liberty League for most sports ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genderEquity | fields both men's and women's teams ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| homeArena | Gene Polisseni Center ⓘ |
| homeArenaFor |
men's ice hockey
ⓘ
women's ice hockey ⓘ |
| iceHockeyDivision | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Rochester, New York ⓘ |
| mascot | RITchie ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Atlantic Hockey (former)
ⓘ
linked to:
Atlantic Hockey
College Hockey America (women) ⓘ
linked to:
College Hockey America
ECAC Hockey ⓘ Empire 8 (former) ⓘ Liberty League ⓘ |
| NCAAdivision |
Division I
ⓘ
Division III ⓘ |
| nickname | Tigers ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
NCAA Division III national championships in men's ice hockey
ⓘ
NCAA tournament appearances in multiple sports ⓘ |
| otherSportsDivision | NCAA Division III ⓘ |
| primaryColors |
black
ⓘ
orange ⓘ white ⓘ |
| represents | Rochester Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| shortName | Tigers ⓘ |
| sport |
baseball
ⓘ
basketball ⓘ crew ⓘ cross country ⓘ golf ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ lacrosse ⓘ soccer ⓘ softball ⓘ swimming and diving ⓘ tennis ⓘ track and field ⓘ |
| sportType | intercollegiate athletics ⓘ |
| varsityTeams |
men's teams
ⓘ
women's teams ⓘ |
| varsityTeamsCount | 20+ ⓘ |
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: Tigers Description of subject: The Tigers are the athletic teams representing the Rochester Institute of Technology in intercollegiate sports.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.