Big 12 Conference men’s basketball tournament (recurring event)
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The Big 12 Conference men’s basketball tournament is an annual postseason college basketball championship event featuring teams from the Big 12 Conference competing for the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T749445 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Big 12 Conference men’s basketball tournament (recurring event) Context triple: [T-Mobile Center, mainTenant, Big 12 Conference men’s basketball tournament (recurring event)]
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A.
Mountain West Conference men's basketball
Mountain West Conference men's basketball is an NCAA Division I collegiate basketball league featuring teams from universities primarily located in the western United States.
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B.
SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
The SEC Men's Basketball Tournament is the postseason conference championship event that determines the Southeastern Conference's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
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C.
Big 12 Championship Game
The Big 12 Championship Game is the annual college football title matchup that determines the champion of the Big 12 Conference.
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NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament
The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament is an annual single-elimination college basketball championship held each March in the United States, widely known as “March Madness” and one of the most popular sporting events in the country.
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E.
NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament
The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament is the annual single-elimination championship that determines the top women’s college basketball team in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Big 12 Conference men’s basketball tournament (recurring event) Target entity description: The Big 12 Conference men’s basketball tournament is an annual postseason college basketball championship event featuring teams from the Big 12 Conference competing for the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
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A.
Mountain West Conference men's basketball
Mountain West Conference men's basketball is an NCAA Division I collegiate basketball league featuring teams from universities primarily located in the western United States.
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B.
SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
The SEC Men's Basketball Tournament is the postseason conference championship event that determines the Southeastern Conference's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
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C.
Big 12 Championship Game
The Big 12 Championship Game is the annual college football title matchup that determines the champion of the Big 12 Conference.
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D.
NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament
The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament is an annual single-elimination college basketball championship held each March in the United States, widely known as “March Madness” and one of the most popular sporting events in the country.
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E.
NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament
The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament is the annual single-elimination championship that determines the top women’s college basketball team in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college basketball tournament
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postseason tournament ⓘ recurring sporting event ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Big 12 Conference men’s basketball tournament (recurring event)
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surface form:
Big 12 men’s basketball championship
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| competitionLevel | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| conference | Big 12 Conference ⓘ |
| confersTitle |
Big 12 Conference men’s basketball tournament champion
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Big 12 Conference Tournament ⓘ
surface form:
Big 12 Conference postseason champion
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| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| formerNumberOfTeams |
10
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12 ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| gender | men’s ⓘ |
| givesAccessTo |
NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament
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surface form:
NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament
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| hasBeenHeldInArena |
American Airlines Center
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Chesapeake Energy Arena ⓘ T-Mobile Center ⓘ |
| hasBeenHeldInCity |
Dallas, Texas
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Kansas City, Missouri, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Kansas City, Missouri
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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| hasFeature |
championship game determines conference’s automatic NCAA bid
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first-round byes for top seeds ⓘ neutral-site games ⓘ seeding based on regular-season conference record ⓘ |
| hasSignificance |
determines Big 12 Conference’s automatic NCAA Tournament qualifier
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major event in college basketball’s March postseason ⓘ |
| inception | 1997 ⓘ |
| includesTeam |
BYU Cougars men's basketball
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surface form:
BYU Cougars men’s basketball
Baylor Bears men’s basketball ⓘ Cincinnati Bearcats ⓘ
surface form:
Cincinnati Bearcats men’s basketball
University of Houston Cougars ⓘ
surface form:
Houston Cougars men’s basketball
Iowa State Cyclones men’s basketball ⓘ Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball ⓘ
surface form:
Kansas Jayhawks men’s basketball
Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball ⓘ
surface form:
Oklahoma State Cowboys men’s basketball
TCU Horned Frogs ⓘ
surface form:
TCU Horned Frogs men’s basketball
Texas Longhorns ⓘ
surface form:
Texas Longhorns men’s basketball
Red Raiders ⓘ
surface form:
Texas Tech Red Raiders men’s basketball
UCF Knights ⓘ
surface form:
UCF Knights men’s basketball
West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball ⓘ
surface form:
West Virginia Mountaineers men’s basketball
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| locationType | indoor arena ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage | televised nationally in the United States ⓘ |
| numberOfTeams | 14 ⓘ |
| organizer | Big 12 Conference ⓘ |
| partOf |
Big 12 Conference men’s basketball tournament (recurring event)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Big 12 Conference men’s basketball season
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| qualification | automatic NCAA Tournament bid for champion ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| typicalMonthPlayed | March ⓘ |
| usesFormat | single-elimination ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Big 12 Conference men’s basketball tournament (recurring event) Description of subject: The Big 12 Conference men’s basketball tournament is an annual postseason college basketball championship event featuring teams from the Big 12 Conference competing for the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Big 12 Conference men’s basketball tournament (recurring event)
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partOf
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Big 12 Conference men’s basketball tournament (recurring event)
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Big 12 Conference men’s basketball tournament
this entity surface form:
Big 12 Conference men’s basketball season
Big 12 Conference men’s basketball tournament (recurring event)
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alsoKnownAs
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Big 12 Conference men’s basketball tournament (recurring event)
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subject surface form:
Big 12 Conference men’s basketball tournament
this entity surface form:
Big 12 men’s basketball championship
Baylor Bears men’s basketball
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conferenceTournament
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Big 12 Conference men’s basketball tournament (recurring event)
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subject surface form:
Baylor Bears men's basketball
this entity surface form:
Big 12 men's basketball tournament
Big 12 Conference Tournament
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eligibility
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Big 12 Conference men’s basketball tournament (recurring event)
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this entity surface form:
Big 12 Conference men's basketball teams