Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
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The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division II collegiate athletic conference featuring universities primarily located in the Great Lakes region of the United States.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference canonical | 33 |
| GLIAC | 2 |
| Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T998497 — 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: Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Context triple: [Wayne State University, isMemberOf, Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]
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A.
Mid-American Conference
The Mid-American Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising midwestern U.S. universities and competing in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
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B.
Great Midwest Conference
The Great Midwest Conference was a former NCAA Division I athletic conference that operated in the early 1990s, primarily featuring universities from the Midwestern United States before its members were absorbed into Conference USA.
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C.
Horizon League
The Horizon League is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising midwestern universities that compete in a variety of sports.
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D.
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association is an NCAA Division III athletic conference composed primarily of small private colleges in the state of Michigan and is recognized as the oldest collegiate athletic conference in the United States.
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E.
United Athletic Conference
The United Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) league that organizes and governs college football competition among its member institutions.
- 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: Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Target entity description: The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division II collegiate athletic conference featuring universities primarily located in the Great Lakes region of the United States.
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A.
Mid-American Conference
The Mid-American Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising midwestern U.S. universities and competing in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
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B.
Great Midwest Conference
The Great Midwest Conference was a former NCAA Division I athletic conference that operated in the early 1990s, primarily featuring universities from the Midwestern United States before its members were absorbed into Conference USA.
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C.
Horizon League
The Horizon League is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising midwestern universities that compete in a variety of sports.
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D.
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association is an NCAA Division III athletic conference composed primarily of small private colleges in the state of Michigan and is recognized as the oldest collegiate athletic conference in the United States.
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E.
United Athletic Conference
The United Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) league that organizes and governs college football competition among its member institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA Division II conference
ⓘ
collegiate athletic conference ⓘ |
| abbreviation | GLIAC ⓘ |
| athleticAssociation |
NCAA
ⓘ
linked to:
National Collegiate Athletic Association
|
| competitionLevel | college athletics ⓘ |
| competitionType |
individual sports
ⓘ
team sports ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| division | Division II ⓘ |
| focusesOn | student-athletes ⓘ |
| geographicFocus | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
College sports conferences in the United States
ⓘ
NCAA Division II conferences ⓘ
linked to:
NCAA Division II
Sports in the Great Lakes region ⓘ |
| hasLevelOfPlay | varsity athletics ⓘ |
| hasMemberInstitutionType |
college
ⓘ
university ⓘ |
| hasScope | regional ⓘ |
| isPartOf | college sports in the United States ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberInstitutionsLocation |
Great Lakes region of the United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Lakes region
Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Great Lakes ⓘ |
| organizes | intercollegiate athletic competition ⓘ |
| regionServed | Great Lakes region ⓘ |
| sponsors |
men's sports
ⓘ
women's sports ⓘ |
| sportLevel | NCAA Division II ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | NCAA Division II ⓘ |
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: Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Description of subject: The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division II collegiate athletic conference featuring universities primarily located in the Great Lakes region of the United States.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Northern Michigan University
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athleticsAffiliation
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Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
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subject linked to:
Warriors
linked to: Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
linked to: Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Michigan Technological University
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athleticConference
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Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
ⓘ
Grand Valley State University
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athleticConference
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Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
ⓘ
Purdue University Northwest
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athleticsConference
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Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
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Ashland College men’s basketball team
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conferenceMembership
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Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
ⓘ
Wayne State Warriors athletics
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athleticConference
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Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
ⓘ
Northern Michigan Wildcats men's basketball
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conference
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Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
ⓘ
Northern Michigan Wildcats women's basketball
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conference
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Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
ⓘ
Northern Michigan Wildcats women's basketball
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league
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Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
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Saginaw Valley State Cardinals football
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conference
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Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
ⓘ
Saginaw Valley State Cardinals football
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affiliation
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Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football
ⓘ
linked to: Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Saginaw Valley State University
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athleticConference
→
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
ⓘ
Michigan Technological University
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athleticsConference
→
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
ⓘ
subject linked to:
MTU
Grand Valley State Lakers football (assistant)
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conference
→
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
ⓘ
subject linked to:
Panthers
subject linked to:
Panthers