James Madison Dukes football
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James Madison Dukes football is the college football program of James Madison University, known for its strong performances in the NCAA Division I ranks and multiple national championships at the FCS level.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Madison Dukes football canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8757724 — 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: James Madison Dukes football Context triple: [Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football, rival, James Madison Dukes football]
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A.
Hamilton Dukes
Hamilton Dukes was a professional sports team based in Hamilton, Ontario, that played its home games at FirstOntario Centre.
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B.
Nile Kinnick
Nile Kinnick was a celebrated University of Iowa halfback and 1939 Heisman Trophy winner whose legacy as both a football star and World War II naval aviator made him a lasting American sports hero.
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C.
Duke L.J.
Duke L.J. is the standard abbreviation for the Duke Law Journal, a leading scholarly publication of Duke University School of Law.
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D.
Marshall Manning
Marshall Manning is a member of the prominent Manning football family, known as the son of Cooper Manning and nephew of NFL quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning.
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E.
Marshall Hall Jr.
Marshall Hall Jr. was an American mathematician known for his significant contributions to group theory and combinatorics, including work on finite groups and block designs.
- 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: James Madison Dukes football Target entity description: James Madison Dukes football is the college football program of James Madison University, known for its strong performances in the NCAA Division I ranks and multiple national championships at the FCS level.
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A.
Hamilton Dukes
Hamilton Dukes was a professional sports team based in Hamilton, Ontario, that played its home games at FirstOntario Centre.
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B.
Nile Kinnick
Nile Kinnick was a celebrated University of Iowa halfback and 1939 Heisman Trophy winner whose legacy as both a football star and World War II naval aviator made him a lasting American sports hero.
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C.
Duke L.J.
Duke L.J. is the standard abbreviation for the Duke Law Journal, a leading scholarly publication of Duke University School of Law.
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D.
Marshall Manning
Marshall Manning is a member of the prominent Manning football family, known as the son of Cooper Manning and nephew of NFL quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning.
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E.
Marshall Hall Jr.
Marshall Hall Jr. was an American mathematician known for his significant contributions to group theory and combinatorics, including work on finite groups and block designs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA Division I football program
ⓘ
college football team ⓘ |
| band | Marching Royal Dukes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city | Harrisonburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conference | Sun Belt Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| division | Sun Belt East Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| established | 1972 ⓘ |
| firstSeason | 1972 ⓘ |
| formerConference |
Atlantic 10 Conference
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Colonial Athletic Association NERFINISHED ⓘ Yankee Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerNCAAdivision |
NCAA Division I FCS
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NCAA Division III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerProgramLevel | Football Championship Subdivision ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| homeFieldSurface | artificial turf ⓘ |
| homeStadium | Bridgeforth Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeStadiumCapacity | over 24,000 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
multiple FCS national championships
ⓘ
strong performances at the FCS level ⓘ |
| location | Harrisonburg, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mascot | Duke Dog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationalTitleAppearancesFCS |
2004
ⓘ
2016 ⓘ 2017 ⓘ |
| nationalTitlesFCS |
2004 NCAA Division I-AA national championship
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
2016 NCAA Division I FCS national championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| NCAAdivision | NCAA Division I FBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Dukes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | first program to win an NCAA Division I-AA national title by winning four straight road playoff games (2004) ⓘ |
| playoffAppearancesFCS | multiple NCAA Division I FCS playoff appearances ⓘ |
| programLevel | Football Bowl Subdivision NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| represents | James Madison University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rival |
Appalachian State Mountaineers football
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marshall Thundering Herd football NERFINISHED ⓘ Richmond Spiders football NERFINISHED ⓘ William & Mary Tribe football NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortName | JMU football NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| stadiumLocation | Harrisonburg, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Virginia ⓘ |
| stateUniversitySystem | Public universities in Virginia ⓘ |
| studentSectionName | JMU student section ⓘ |
| teamColors |
gold
ⓘ
purple ⓘ |
| transitionToFBS | 2022 ⓘ |
| university | James Madison University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: James Madison Dukes football Description of subject: James Madison Dukes football is the college football program of James Madison University, known for its strong performances in the NCAA Division I ranks and multiple national championships at the FCS level.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.