Little Brown Jug
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Little Brown Jug is a historic college football rivalry trophy contested between the University of Michigan Wolverines and the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Little Brown Jug canonical | 3 |
| Little Brown Jug game | 1 |
| Little Brown Jug rivalry | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2997873 — 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: Little Brown Jug Context triple: [Minnesota Golden Gophers, footballTrophyGame, Little Brown Jug]
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A.
Land Grant Trophy
The Land Grant Trophy is a college football rivalry trophy contested between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Michigan State Spartans, symbolizing the land-grant heritage of both universities.
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B.
Oil Can Trophy
The Oil Can Trophy is a college football rivalry trophy awarded to the winner of the annual game between the San Diego State Aztecs and the Fresno State Bulldogs.
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C.
Territorial Cup
The Territorial Cup is the trophy awarded in the historic college football rivalry game between the University of Arizona Wildcats and the Arizona State Sun Devils.
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D.
Stupor Bowl
Stupor Bowl is a derisive nickname for Super Bowl V, reflecting its reputation as a poorly played, mistake-filled championship game.
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E.
Riley Cup
The Riley Cup was the championship trophy awarded to the playoff winner of the ECHL, a North American minor professional ice hockey league, before it was replaced by the Kelly Cup.
- 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: Little Brown Jug Target entity description: Little Brown Jug is a historic college football rivalry trophy contested between the University of Michigan Wolverines and the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
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A.
Land Grant Trophy
The Land Grant Trophy is a college football rivalry trophy contested between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Michigan State Spartans, symbolizing the land-grant heritage of both universities.
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B.
Oil Can Trophy
The Oil Can Trophy is a college football rivalry trophy awarded to the winner of the annual game between the San Diego State Aztecs and the Fresno State Bulldogs.
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C.
Territorial Cup
The Territorial Cup is the trophy awarded in the historic college football rivalry game between the University of Arizona Wildcats and the Arizona State Sun Devils.
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D.
Stupor Bowl
Stupor Bowl is a derisive nickname for Super Bowl V, reflecting its reputation as a poorly played, mistake-filled championship game.
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E.
Riley Cup
The Riley Cup was the championship trophy awarded to the playoff winner of the ECHL, a North American minor professional ice hockey league, before it was replaced by the Kelly Cup.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college football rivalry trophy
ⓘ
sports trophy ⓘ |
| associatedTeam |
Michigan Wolverines football team
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan Wolverines football
Minnesota Golden Gophers football team ⓘ
linked to:
Minnesota Golden Gophers
|
| associatedWithInstitution |
University of Michigan
ⓘ
University of Minnesota Twin Cities ⓘ
linked to:
University of Minnesota
|
| associatedWithSeason | NCAA college football season ⓘ |
| category | college football rivalry trophy in the United States ⓘ |
| competitionName | Michigan–Minnesota football rivalry ⓘ |
| conference | Big Ten Conference ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| currentHolderDeterminedBy | most recent Michigan–Minnesota game result ⓘ |
| decoratedWith | scores of past Michigan–Minnesota games ⓘ |
| firstContested | 1903 ⓘ |
| governingBody | Big Ten Conference ⓘ |
| hasColor | brown ⓘ |
| homeTeamWhenInPossession | displays trophy on campus ⓘ |
| levelOfPlay |
NCAA Division I FBS
ⓘ
linked to:
Football Bowl Subdivision
|
| material | stoneware jug ⓘ |
| namedAfter | water jug used by Michigan team ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the oldest rivalry trophies in college football ⓘ |
| originatedAs | forgotten water jug left in Minnesota ⓘ |
| rivalryBetween |
University of Michigan
ⓘ
University of Minnesota ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| trophyAwardedFor | winner of the Michigan–Minnesota football game ⓘ |
| usedInCompetition |
Michigan Wolverines football
ⓘ
Minnesota Golden Gophers football ⓘ
linked to:
Minnesota Golden Gophers
|
| winnerKeepsTrophyUntil | next Michigan–Minnesota football game ⓘ |
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: Little Brown Jug Description of subject: Little Brown Jug is a historic college football rivalry trophy contested between the University of Michigan Wolverines and the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Little Brown Jug
linked to: Little Brown Jug