Columbia Lions
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The Columbia Lions are the varsity athletic teams representing Columbia University in NCAA Division I competition, primarily in the Ivy League.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Columbia Lions canonical | 19 |
| Columbia Lions (Ivy League rival institution) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2150869 — 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: Columbia Lions Context triple: [Princeton Tigers, rival, Columbia Lions]
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A.
Columbia Lions football
Columbia Lions football is the intercollegiate American football program of Columbia University, competing in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision as a member of the Ivy League.
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B.
CSM Bulldogs
CSM Bulldogs is the nickname for the College of San Mateo’s football program, a prominent junior college team in California community college athletics.
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C.
Yale Bulldogs
The Yale Bulldogs are the varsity athletic teams representing Yale University in NCAA Division I sports, particularly known for their historic football and ice hockey programs.
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D.
Columbia Lions men’s basketball
Columbia Lions men’s basketball is the NCAA Division I men’s basketball program of Columbia University, competing in the Ivy League and representing the school in intercollegiate basketball.
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E.
Columbia Lions baseball
Columbia Lions baseball is the collegiate baseball program of Columbia University, best known for having produced Hall of Fame slugger Lou Gehrig.
- 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: Columbia Lions Target entity description: The Columbia Lions are the varsity athletic teams representing Columbia University in NCAA Division I competition, primarily in the Ivy League.
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A.
Columbia Lions football
Columbia Lions football is the intercollegiate American football program of Columbia University, competing in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision as a member of the Ivy League.
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B.
CSM Bulldogs
CSM Bulldogs is the nickname for the College of San Mateo’s football program, a prominent junior college team in California community college athletics.
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C.
Yale Bulldogs
The Yale Bulldogs are the varsity athletic teams representing Yale University in NCAA Division I sports, particularly known for their historic football and ice hockey programs.
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D.
Columbia Lions men’s basketball
Columbia Lions men’s basketball is the NCAA Division I men’s basketball program of Columbia University, competing in the Ivy League and representing the school in intercollegiate basketball.
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E.
Columbia Lions baseball
Columbia Lions baseball is the collegiate baseball program of Columbia University, best known for having produced Hall of Fame slugger Lou Gehrig.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
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: Columbia Lions Description of subject: The Columbia Lions are the varsity athletic teams representing Columbia University in NCAA Division I competition, primarily in the Ivy League.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Columbia Lions men’s soccer
subject linked to:
Columbia Lions men’s soccer
subject linked to:
Yale Bulldogs men’s lacrosse
linked to: Columbia Lions