B12
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B12 is the common shorthand used to refer to the Big 12 Conference, a major collegiate athletic conference in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| B12 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T839632 — 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: B12 Context triple: [Big 12 Conference, abbreviation, B12]
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A.
B6
B6 is the IATA airline designator used to identify JetBlue Airways on tickets, schedules, and flight information systems.
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B.
Behring
Behring is a German surname most notably associated with Emil Adolf von Behring, the pioneering physiologist and first Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine for his work on serum therapy.
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C.
Boric
Boric is the surname of Gabriel Boric, the Chilean politician who became one of the world’s youngest heads of state when he was elected President of Chile.
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D.
Leqembi
Leqembi is an Alzheimer’s disease drug (lecanemab) that targets amyloid-beta plaques to slow cognitive decline in early-stage patients.
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E.
Versonnex
Versonnex is a small commune in the Ain department of eastern France, located near the Swiss border in the Pays de Gex region.
- 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: B12 Target entity description: B12 is the common shorthand used to refer to the Big 12 Conference, a major collegiate athletic conference in the United States.
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A.
B6
B6 is the IATA airline designator used to identify JetBlue Airways on tickets, schedules, and flight information systems.
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B.
Behring
Behring is a German surname most notably associated with Emil Adolf von Behring, the pioneering physiologist and first Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine for his work on serum therapy.
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C.
Boric
Boric is the surname of Gabriel Boric, the Chilean politician who became one of the world’s youngest heads of state when he was elected President of Chile.
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D.
Leqembi
Leqembi is an Alzheimer’s disease drug (lecanemab) that targets amyloid-beta plaques to slow cognitive decline in early-stage patients.
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E.
Versonnex
Versonnex is a small commune in the Ain department of eastern France, located near the Swiss border in the Pays de Gex region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA Division I conference
ⓘ
collegiate athletic conference ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
B12
ⓘ
Big 12 ⓘ
linked to:
Big 12 Conference
|
| commissionerTitle | Commissioner ⓘ |
| competitionBegan | 1996 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| footballSubdivision | FBS ⓘ |
| formerName |
Big Eight Conference (as primary predecessor)
ⓘ
linked to:
Big Eight Conference
|
| founded | 1994 ⓘ |
| fullName | Big 12 Conference ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| hasBasketballTournament | true ⓘ |
| hasFootballChampionshipGame | true ⓘ |
| hasFootballRoundRobinHistory | true ⓘ |
| hasMemberSport |
American football
ⓘ
baseball ⓘ cross country ⓘ golf ⓘ gymnastics ⓘ men's basketball ⓘ rowing ⓘ soccer ⓘ softball ⓘ swimming and diving ⓘ tennis ⓘ track and field ⓘ volleyball ⓘ women's basketball ⓘ wrestling ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Irving, Texas ⓘ |
| isAutonomyConference | true ⓘ |
| isPowerConference | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Big Eight Conference
ⓘ
Southwest Conference (partial) ⓘ
linked to:
Southwest Conference
|
| regionServed |
Central United States
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ Southwestern United States ⓘ
linked to:
southwestern United States
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| shortDescription | Major NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States ⓘ |
| sponsorsMenSports | true ⓘ |
| sponsorsWomenSports | true ⓘ |
| sportLevel | college ⓘ |
| subdivision |
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
ⓘ
linked to:
Football Bowl Subdivision
|
| televisionPartner |
ESPN
ⓘ
Fox Sports ⓘ |
| website | https://www.big12sports.com ⓘ |
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: B12 Description of subject: B12 is the common shorthand used to refer to the Big 12 Conference, a major collegiate athletic conference in the United States.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.