C-USA
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C-USA is the commonly used abbreviation for Conference USA, an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| C-USA canonical | 3 |
| C-USA baseball | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T162106 — 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: C-USA Context triple: [Conference USA, hasAbbreviation, C-USA]
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A.
Big 12 Conference
The Big 12 Conference is a major NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States, recognized as one of the top-tier "Power Five" leagues in college sports.
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B.
Southeastern Conference
The Southeastern Conference is a prominent collegiate athletic conference in the United States, known especially for its powerhouse football programs and member universities primarily located in the southeastern region of the country.
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C.
Sun Belt
The Sun Belt is a region of the United States stretching across the South and Southwest, known for its warm climate, rapid population growth, and significant economic development.
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D.
Pac-12 Network
Pac-12 Network is a sports-focused television channel dedicated to broadcasting collegiate athletics and related programming from the universities of the Pac-12 Conference.
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E.
Great Midwest Conference
The Great Midwest Conference was a former NCAA Division I athletic conference that operated in the early 1990s, primarily featuring universities from the Midwestern United States before its members were absorbed into Conference USA.
- 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: C-USA Target entity description: C-USA is the commonly used abbreviation for Conference USA, an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States.
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A.
Big 12 Conference
The Big 12 Conference is a major NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States, recognized as one of the top-tier "Power Five" leagues in college sports.
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B.
Southeastern Conference
The Southeastern Conference is a prominent collegiate athletic conference in the United States, known especially for its powerhouse football programs and member universities primarily located in the southeastern region of the country.
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C.
Sun Belt
The Sun Belt is a region of the United States stretching across the South and Southwest, known for its warm climate, rapid population growth, and significant economic development.
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D.
Pac-12 Network
Pac-12 Network is a sports-focused television channel dedicated to broadcasting collegiate athletics and related programming from the universities of the Pac-12 Conference.
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E.
Great Midwest Conference
The Great Midwest Conference was a former NCAA Division I athletic conference that operated in the early 1990s, primarily featuring universities from the Midwestern United States before its members were absorbed into Conference USA.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA Division I conference
ⓘ
collegiate athletic conference ⓘ |
| abbreviation | C-USA ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Conference USA ⓘ |
| competitionLevel |
Division I FBS football
ⓘ
Division I non-football sports ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fullName | Conference USA ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| hasMemberType |
private university
ⓘ
public university ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
Southern United States ⓘ Western United States ⓘ
linked to:
western United States
|
| shortName | C-USA ⓘ |
| sponsoredSport |
baseball
ⓘ
cross country ⓘ football ⓘ golf ⓘ men's basketball ⓘ men's soccer ⓘ softball ⓘ tennis ⓘ track and field ⓘ volleyball ⓘ women's basketball ⓘ women's soccer ⓘ |
| sportLevel | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| sportType | college athletics ⓘ |
| subdivisionInFootball | FBS ⓘ |
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: C-USA Description of subject: C-USA is the commonly used abbreviation for Conference USA, an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: C-USA