Illinois High School Association
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The Illinois High School Association is the organization that oversees and regulates interscholastic sports and activities for high schools throughout the state of Illinois.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Illinois High School Association canonical | 23 |
| IHSA | 1 |
| Illinois high school athletics | 1 |
| Illinois high school athletics system | 1 |
| Illinois high school basketball championships | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2272493 — 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)
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Target entity: Illinois High School Association Context triple: [Maine South High School, governingBody, Illinois High School Association]
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A.
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy is a selective public residential high school in Illinois known for its advanced STEM curriculum and for producing notable technology innovators and entrepreneurs.
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B.
Glenbard Township High School District 87
Glenbard Township High School District 87 is a public high school district in DuPage County, Illinois, serving Glen Ellyn and several surrounding communities in the western suburbs of Chicago.
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C.
Hinsdale Township High School District 86
Hinsdale Township High School District 86 is a public high school district in the western suburbs of Chicago, serving communities such as Hinsdale, Oak Brook, and surrounding areas in DuPage County, Illinois.
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D.
Proviso Township High Schools District 209
Proviso Township High Schools District 209 is a public high school district serving several communities in the western suburbs of Chicago, Illinois.
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E.
Heartland Collegiate Conference
The Heartland Collegiate Conference was a former college athletic conference that organized intercollegiate sports competition among its member schools in the United States.
- 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: Illinois High School Association Target entity description: The Illinois High School Association is the organization that oversees and regulates interscholastic sports and activities for high schools throughout the state of Illinois.
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A.
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy is a selective public residential high school in Illinois known for its advanced STEM curriculum and for producing notable technology innovators and entrepreneurs.
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B.
Glenbard Township High School District 87
Glenbard Township High School District 87 is a public high school district in DuPage County, Illinois, serving Glen Ellyn and several surrounding communities in the western suburbs of Chicago.
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C.
Hinsdale Township High School District 86
Hinsdale Township High School District 86 is a public high school district in the western suburbs of Chicago, serving communities such as Hinsdale, Oak Brook, and surrounding areas in DuPage County, Illinois.
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D.
Proviso Township High Schools District 209
Proviso Township High Schools District 209 is a public high school district serving several communities in the western suburbs of Chicago, Illinois.
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E.
Heartland Collegiate Conference
The Heartland Collegiate Conference was a former college athletic conference that organized intercollegiate sports competition among its member schools in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
high school athletic association
ⓘ
nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
IHSA
ⓘ
linked to:
Illinois High School Association
|
| appliesToEducationalLevel | high school ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| formerHeadquartersLocation |
Chicago, Illinois
ⓘ
linked to:
Chicago
|
| founded | 1900 ⓘ |
| governsSport |
baseball
ⓘ
boys basketball ⓘ competitive cheerleading ⓘ competitive dance ⓘ cross country ⓘ football ⓘ girls basketball ⓘ golf ⓘ soccer ⓘ softball ⓘ swimming and diving ⓘ tennis ⓘ track and field ⓘ volleyball ⓘ wrestling ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Bloomington, Illinois ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
state of Illinois
ⓘ
linked to:
Illinois
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalStatus | nonprofit ⓘ |
| memberSchoolsType |
private high schools
ⓘ
public high schools ⓘ |
| membershipType | voluntary association of schools ⓘ |
| organizes |
regional tournaments
ⓘ
sectional tournaments ⓘ state championships ⓘ super-sectional tournaments ⓘ |
| overseesActivity |
debate
ⓘ
drama competitions ⓘ music competitions ⓘ scholastic bowl ⓘ speech competitions ⓘ |
| regulates |
high school athletics in Illinois
ⓘ
high school competitive activities in Illinois ⓘ interscholastic activities ⓘ interscholastic sports ⓘ |
| setsRuleFor |
amateurism
ⓘ
eligibility standards ⓘ season limitations ⓘ sportsmanship guidelines ⓘ transfer students ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| website | https://www.ihsa.org ⓘ |
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: Illinois High School Association Description of subject: The Illinois High School Association is the organization that oversees and regulates interscholastic sports and activities for high schools throughout the state of Illinois.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.