West Region
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The West Region is one of the four geographic brackets used to organize teams and games in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| West Region canonical | 12 |
| West Region final | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T31150 — 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: West Region Context triple: [NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, regionName, West Region]
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A.
East Region
The East Region is one of the four geographic brackets used to organize teams and games in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament.
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B.
Midwest Region
The Midwest Region is one of the four geographic brackets used to organize teams and games in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament.
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C.
Inland Northwest
The Inland Northwest is a largely rural, landlocked area of the northwestern United States centered on eastern Washington and northern Idaho, known for its forests, agriculture, and mid-sized cities like Spokane.
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D.
South Central United States
The South Central United States is a U.S. region typically including states like Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, characterized by a mix of Southern and Western cultural influences and a diverse economy spanning energy, agriculture, and industry.
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E.
Interior West
The Interior West is a largely arid, sparsely populated region of the western United States encompassing high plateaus, basins, and mountain ranges between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Coast.
- 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: West Region Target entity description: The West Region is one of the four geographic brackets used to organize teams and games in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament.
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A.
East Region
The East Region is one of the four geographic brackets used to organize teams and games in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament.
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B.
Midwest Region
The Midwest Region is one of the four geographic brackets used to organize teams and games in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament.
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C.
Inland Northwest
The Inland Northwest is a largely rural, landlocked area of the northwestern United States centered on eastern Washington and northern Idaho, known for its forests, agriculture, and mid-sized cities like Spokane.
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D.
South Central United States
The South Central United States is a U.S. region typically including states like Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, characterized by a mix of Southern and Western cultural influences and a diverse economy spanning energy, agriculture, and industry.
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E.
Interior West
The Interior West is a largely arid, sparsely populated region of the western United States encompassing high plateaus, basins, and mountain ranges between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA basketball tournament region
ⓘ
sports competition bracket ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | West Regional ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| determines | one Final Four participant ⓘ |
| genderCategory | men ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation |
West
ⓘ
linked to:
western United States
|
| hasBracketSide | regional bracket ⓘ |
| hasCompetitionType | single-elimination tournament ⓘ |
| hasGamesAt | predetermined neutral sites ⓘ |
| hasGeographicTheme | western United States ⓘ |
| hasMediaCoverage | national television in the United States ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfTeams | 16 ⓘ |
| hasRound |
Elite Eight
ⓘ
First Round ⓘ Second Round ⓘ Sweet Sixteen ⓘ |
| hasSeedingSystem | seeded 1 through 16 ⓘ |
| inception | 20th century ⓘ |
| includesTeamsFrom | multiple NCAA Division I conferences ⓘ |
| levelOfCompetition | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| partOf | NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament ⓘ |
| selectionMethod |
NCAA selection committee seeding
ⓘ
linked to:
NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee
|
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| timePeriod | held annually during March and April ⓘ |
| tournamentType | college basketball postseason ⓘ |
| usedFor |
organizing games in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament
ⓘ
organizing teams in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament ⓘ |
| winnerAdvancesTo | Final Four ⓘ |
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: West Region Description of subject: The West Region is one of the four geographic brackets used to organize teams and games in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: West Region