Ball State Cardinals men's basketball
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Ball State Cardinals men's basketball is the NCAA Division I men's basketball program of Ball State University, competing in the Mid-American Conference and known for multiple conference titles and NCAA Tournament appearances.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ball State Cardinals men's basketball canonical | 2 |
| Ball State Cardinals men’s basketball | 1 |
| Ball State Cardinals men’s basketball team | 1 |
| Ball State University men's basketball | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1168092 — 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: Ball State Cardinals men's basketball Context triple: [Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball, rival, Ball State Cardinals men's basketball]
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Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball
Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball is the NCAA Division I program best known for starring Larry Bird during its historic late-1970s run, including a trip to the 1979 national championship game.
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Ball State University
Ball State University is a public research university in Muncie, Indiana, known for its strong programs in education, architecture, and communications.
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Louisville Cardinals men's basketball
Louisville Cardinals men's basketball is the NCAA Division I basketball program of the University of Louisville, known for its rich tradition, multiple national championships, and producing Hall of Fame players like Wes Unseld.
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Kentucky Colonels
The Kentucky Colonels were a professional basketball team based in Louisville that became one of the most successful and popular franchises in the original American Basketball Association during the late 1960s and 1970s.
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Fairmont State Fighting Falcons men's basketball
Fairmont State Fighting Falcons men's basketball is the NCAA Division II men's basketball program of Fairmont State University in West Virginia, known for its competitive success and for having produced future NBA head coach Joe Mazzulla.
- 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: Ball State Cardinals men's basketball Target entity description: Ball State Cardinals men's basketball is the NCAA Division I men's basketball program of Ball State University, competing in the Mid-American Conference and known for multiple conference titles and NCAA Tournament appearances.
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Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball
Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball is the NCAA Division I program best known for starring Larry Bird during its historic late-1970s run, including a trip to the 1979 national championship game.
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Ball State University
Ball State University is a public research university in Muncie, Indiana, known for its strong programs in education, architecture, and communications.
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Louisville Cardinals men's basketball
Louisville Cardinals men's basketball is the NCAA Division I basketball program of the University of Louisville, known for its rich tradition, multiple national championships, and producing Hall of Fame players like Wes Unseld.
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Kentucky Colonels
The Kentucky Colonels were a professional basketball team based in Louisville that became one of the most successful and popular franchises in the original American Basketball Association during the late 1960s and 1970s.
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Fairmont State Fighting Falcons men's basketball
Fairmont State Fighting Falcons men's basketball is the NCAA Division II men's basketball program of Fairmont State University in West Virginia, known for its competitive success and for having produced future NBA head coach Joe Mazzulla.
- F. None of above. chosen
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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: Ball State Cardinals men's basketball Description of subject: Ball State Cardinals men's basketball is the NCAA Division I men's basketball program of Ball State University, competing in the Mid-American Conference and known for multiple conference titles and NCAA Tournament appearances.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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