Riptide the Pelican
E191541
Riptide the Pelican is the energetic and costumed pelican mascot that represents Tulane University at athletic events and campus activities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Riptide the Pelican canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1694639 — 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: Riptide the Pelican Context triple: [Tulane University, hasMascot, Riptide the Pelican]
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A.
Pelican
Pelican was the English galleon originally commanded by Sir Francis Drake on his circumnavigation voyage, later renamed the Golden Hind.
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B.
Wing
Wing is an Alphabet Inc. subsidiary focused on developing and operating drone-based delivery services and related logistics technologies.
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C.
Wing
Wing is an experimental mobile operating system and user interface project developed by X (formerly Google X) to explore new paradigms in smartphone interaction and design.
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D.
Swoop
Swoop is the Philadelphia Eagles’ official bald eagle mascot, known for entertaining fans at games and team events.
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E.
Swoop
Swoop is the red-tailed hawk mascot representing the University of Utah’s athletic teams.
- 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: Riptide the Pelican Target entity description: Riptide the Pelican is the energetic and costumed pelican mascot that represents Tulane University at athletic events and campus activities.
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A.
Pelican
Pelican was the English galleon originally commanded by Sir Francis Drake on his circumnavigation voyage, later renamed the Golden Hind.
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B.
Wing
Wing is an Alphabet Inc. subsidiary focused on developing and operating drone-based delivery services and related logistics technologies.
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C.
Wing
Wing is an experimental mobile operating system and user interface project developed by X (formerly Google X) to explore new paradigms in smartphone interaction and design.
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D.
Swoop
Swoop is the Philadelphia Eagles’ official bald eagle mascot, known for entertaining fans at games and team events.
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E.
Swoop
Swoop is the red-tailed hawk mascot representing the University of Utah’s athletic teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
costumed character
ⓘ
fictional bird ⓘ university mascot ⓘ |
| appearsAt |
Tulane University athletic events
ⓘ
Tulane University campus activities ⓘ |
| associatedColor |
blue
ⓘ
green ⓘ white ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Tulane Green Wave
ⓘ
linked to:
Tulane University
Tulane Green Wave athletics ⓘ
linked to:
Tulane Green Wave football
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre | sports mascot ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
costumed
ⓘ
energetic ⓘ |
| homeLocation |
New Orleans, Louisiana
ⓘ
linked to:
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
|
| mascotOf | Tulane University ⓘ |
| performsAt |
basketball games
ⓘ
football games ⓘ other Tulane sports events ⓘ |
| represents |
Tulane University
ⓘ
Tulane University alumni ⓘ Tulane University athletic teams ⓘ
linked to:
Tulane Green Wave football
Tulane University students ⓘ |
| role |
energize crowds
ⓘ
promote school spirit ⓘ represent Tulane University brand ⓘ |
| species | pelican ⓘ |
| university | Tulane University ⓘ |
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: Riptide the Pelican Description of subject: Riptide the Pelican is the energetic and costumed pelican mascot that represents Tulane University at athletic events and campus activities.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.