The Tiger
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The Tiger is the costumed feline mascot that represents Princeton University's athletic teams, particularly its football program.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Tiger canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1175051 — 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: The Tiger Context triple: [Princeton Tigers football, mascot, The Tiger]
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A.
Lion
Lion is a 2016 biographical drama film about an Indian boy separated from his family and adopted in Australia who later uses Google Earth to find his way home.
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B.
Lion
Lion was a prominent warship of the Royal Scots Navy, recognized for its significant role in Scotland’s early modern naval history.
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C.
Tiger of Malaya
Tiger of Malaya is the famous wartime nickname of Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita, noted for his rapid conquest of British Malaya and Singapore during World War II.
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D.
TOM the Tiger
TOM the Tiger is the live Bengal tiger mascot that represents the University of Memphis Tigers athletic programs.
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E.
Tigers
Tigers is the nickname of the Hanshin Tigers, a professional Japanese baseball team based in the Kansai region and one of Nippon Professional Baseball’s most storied franchises.
- 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: The Tiger Target entity description: The Tiger is the costumed feline mascot that represents Princeton University's athletic teams, particularly its football program.
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A.
Lion
Lion is a 2016 biographical drama film about an Indian boy separated from his family and adopted in Australia who later uses Google Earth to find his way home.
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B.
Lion
Lion was a prominent warship of the Royal Scots Navy, recognized for its significant role in Scotland’s early modern naval history.
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C.
Tiger of Malaya
Tiger of Malaya is the famous wartime nickname of Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita, noted for his rapid conquest of British Malaya and Singapore during World War II.
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D.
TOM the Tiger
TOM the Tiger is the live Bengal tiger mascot that represents the University of Memphis Tigers athletic programs.
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E.
Tigers
Tigers is the nickname of the Hanshin Tigers, a professional Japanese baseball team based in the Kansai region and one of Nippon Professional Baseball’s most storied franchises.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college sports mascot
ⓘ
fictional tiger ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ivy League
ⓘ
Princeton Tigers school colors ⓘ Princeton, New Jersey ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| mascotFor |
Princeton Tigers baseball team
ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers baseball
Princeton Tigers cross country teams ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers men’s cross country
Princeton Tigers field hockey team ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers field hockey
Princeton Tigers football team ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers football
Princeton Tigers golf teams ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers men's golf
Princeton Tigers men’s basketball team ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers men’s basketball
Princeton Tigers men’s ice hockey team ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey
Princeton Tigers men’s lacrosse team ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers men’s lacrosse
Princeton Tigers men’s soccer team ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers men’s soccer
Princeton Tigers rowing teams ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers men’s rowing
Princeton Tigers softball team ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers softball
Princeton Tigers swimming and diving teams ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers swimming and diving
Princeton Tigers tennis teams ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers tennis
Princeton Tigers track and field teams ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers athletics
Princeton Tigers volleyball teams ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers women's volleyball
Princeton Tigers women’s basketball team ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers women’s basketball
Princeton Tigers women’s ice hockey team ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers women’s ice hockey
Princeton Tigers women’s lacrosse team ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers women’s lacrosse
Princeton Tigers women’s soccer team ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers women’s soccer
Princeton Tigers wrestling team ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers wrestling
|
| performsAt |
Princeton Tigers alumni events
ⓘ
Princeton Tigers community outreach events ⓘ Princeton Tigers home basketball games ⓘ Princeton Tigers home football games ⓘ Princeton Tigers pep rallies ⓘ |
| represents |
Princeton Tigers athletic teams
ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers athletics
Princeton Tigers football program ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Tigers football
Princeton Tigers school spirit ⓘ Princeton University ⓘ |
| sport |
American football
ⓘ
baseball ⓘ basketball ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ lacrosse ⓘ soccer ⓘ wrestling ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
competitiveness
ⓘ
courage ⓘ strength ⓘ tiger ⓘ |
| university | Princeton University ⓘ |
| wears |
Princeton Tigers uniform
ⓘ
tiger 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: The Tiger Description of subject: The Tiger is the costumed feline mascot that represents Princeton University's athletic teams, particularly its football program.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.