Big Dance
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Big Dance is a popular nickname for the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, the annual championship event of college basketball in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Big Dance canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1206916 — 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: Big Dance Context triple: [Selection Sunday, nicknameOfCompetition, Big Dance]
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A.
The Dance
The Dance is a famous early 20th-century painting by Henri Matisse that depicts a circle of nude figures dancing against a vivid, simplified landscape, exemplifying his bold use of color and form in Fauvism.
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B.
Dance the Night
"Dance the Night" is a disco-pop song by Dua Lipa, best known for its inclusion on the soundtrack of the 2023 film *Barbie*.
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C.
Dranse
The Dranse is a river in the Haute-Savoie region of France that flows from the Alps into Lake Geneva near Thonon-les-Bains.
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D.
Come and Get It
Come and Get It is a 1936 American drama film, co-directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler, best known for featuring Walter Brennan in an Oscar-winning supporting performance.
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E.
Dancing on the Ceiling
Dancing on the Ceiling is a 1986 pop song by Lionel Richie known for its upbeat, celebratory style and innovative music video featuring gravity-defying dance scenes.
- 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: Big Dance Target entity description: Big Dance is a popular nickname for the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, the annual championship event of college basketball in the United States.
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A.
The Dance
The Dance is a famous early 20th-century painting by Henri Matisse that depicts a circle of nude figures dancing against a vivid, simplified landscape, exemplifying his bold use of color and form in Fauvism.
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B.
Dance the Night
"Dance the Night" is a disco-pop song by Dua Lipa, best known for its inclusion on the soundtrack of the 2023 film *Barbie*.
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C.
Dranse
The Dranse is a river in the Haute-Savoie region of France that flows from the Alps into Lake Geneva near Thonon-les-Bains.
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D.
Come and Get It
Come and Get It is a 1936 American drama film, co-directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler, best known for featuring Walter Brennan in an Oscar-winning supporting performance.
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E.
Dancing on the Ceiling
Dancing on the Ceiling is a 1986 pop song by Lionel Richie known for its upbeat, celebratory style and innovative music video featuring gravity-defying dance scenes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colloquial term
ⓘ
sports tournament nickname ⓘ |
| appliesTo | college basketball ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
March Madness
ⓘ
linked to:
NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament
NCAA Tournament ⓘ
linked to:
NCAA tournament
|
| audience | college basketball fans ⓘ |
| colloquialRegister | informal sports slang ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| context | postseason college basketball ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| eventType | annual championship tournament ⓘ |
| genderCategory | men's ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| hasParticipantType |
NCAA Division I men's basketball teams
ⓘ
linked to:
NCAA Division I
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage | national television in the United States ⓘ |
| notableFor | popularity as nickname for NCAA men's tournament ⓘ |
| refersTo |
NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
ⓘ
linked to:
NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament
|
| region | North America ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Final Four
ⓘ
Selection Sunday ⓘ bracketology ⓘ |
| shortFor |
NCAA men's basketball championship tournament
ⓘ
linked to:
NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament
|
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| timeOfYear |
March
ⓘ
early April ⓘ |
| tournamentFormat | single-elimination ⓘ |
| usedBy |
basketball fans
ⓘ
college basketball community ⓘ sports media ⓘ |
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: Big Dance Description of subject: Big Dance is a popular nickname for the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, the annual championship event of college basketball in the United States.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.