Touchdown the Bear
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Touchdown the Bear is the costumed bear mascot who represents Cornell University's Big Red athletic teams, especially at football games.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Touchdown the Bear canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1197383 — 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: Touchdown the Bear Context triple: [Cornell Big Red football, hasMascot, Touchdown the Bear]
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A.
Field of Dreams
Field of Dreams is a 1989 American fantasy-drama film about an Iowa farmer who builds a baseball field in his cornfield after hearing a mysterious voice, leading to encounters with legendary players and reflections on family and redemption.
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B.
Tin Cup
Tin Cup is a 1996 romantic sports comedy film about a washed-up golf pro seeking redemption, best known for starring Kevin Costner.
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C.
Slapshot
Slapshot is the bald eagle mascot of the NHL’s Washington Capitals, known for entertaining fans at games and team events.
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D.
Friday Night Lights (film)
Friday Night Lights is a 2004 American sports drama film that chronicles the pressures and passions surrounding a high school football team in small-town Texas.
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E.
The Kid
The Kid was the famous nickname of Ted Williams, the legendary Boston Red Sox slugger widely regarded as one of the greatest hitters in baseball history.
- 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: Touchdown the Bear Target entity description: Touchdown the Bear is the costumed bear mascot who represents Cornell University's Big Red athletic teams, especially at football games.
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A.
Field of Dreams
Field of Dreams is a 1989 American fantasy-drama film about an Iowa farmer who builds a baseball field in his cornfield after hearing a mysterious voice, leading to encounters with legendary players and reflections on family and redemption.
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B.
Tin Cup
Tin Cup is a 1996 romantic sports comedy film about a washed-up golf pro seeking redemption, best known for starring Kevin Costner.
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C.
Slapshot
Slapshot is the bald eagle mascot of the NHL’s Washington Capitals, known for entertaining fans at games and team events.
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D.
Friday Night Lights (film)
Friday Night Lights is a 2004 American sports drama film that chronicles the pressures and passions surrounding a high school football team in small-town Texas.
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E.
The Kid
The Kid was the famous nickname of Ted Williams, the legendary Boston Red Sox slugger widely regarded as one of the greatest hitters in baseball history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college sports mascot
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costumed mascot ⓘ |
| appearsAt | Cornell Big Red football games ⓘ |
| associatedWithConference | Ivy League ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization |
Cornell Big Red Marching Band
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Cornell University student section ⓘ |
| associatedWithSport | American football ⓘ |
| characterSpecies | bear ⓘ |
| characterType | anthropomorphic bear ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| locatedIn |
Ithaca, New York
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linked to:
Ithaca, New York, United States
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| mascotFor |
Cornell Big Red athletics
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Cornell Big Red football team ⓘ
linked to:
Cornell Big Red football
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| performsAt |
home football games
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pep rallies ⓘ student events ⓘ |
| represents |
Cornell Big Red
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Cornell Big Red athletic teams ⓘ
linked to:
Cornell Big Red athletics
Cornell University ⓘ |
| representsColors |
carnelian red
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white ⓘ |
| role |
school spirit symbol
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sideline entertainer ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Cornell Big Red identity
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linked to:
Cornell Big Red
Cornell school pride ⓘ |
| universityAffiliation | Cornell University ⓘ |
| usedFor |
crowd entertainment
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fan engagement ⓘ promoting school spirit ⓘ |
| wears |
Cornell Big Red athletic jersey
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Cornell-branded costume ⓘ |
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: Touchdown the Bear Description of subject: Touchdown the Bear is the costumed bear mascot who represents Cornell University's Big Red athletic teams, especially at football games.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Cornell University Department of Athletics and Physical Education
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usesMascot
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Touchdown the Bear
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