The Tide
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The Tide is a common shorthand for the University of Alabama’s storied Crimson Tide athletic programs, especially its powerhouse college football team.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3398361 — 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: The Tide Context triple: [Crimson Tide, nickname, The Tide]
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Tide
Tide is a leading American laundry detergent brand known for its powerful stain-removal formulas and wide range of fabric care products.
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B.
Tidal
Tidal is a subscription-based music streaming service known for its high-fidelity audio quality and artist-owned business model.
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Tidal
Tidal is the critically acclaimed 1996 debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple, known for its introspective lyrics and jazz-influenced alternative rock sound.
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D.
Bluewater
Bluewater is a large out-of-town shopping and leisure centre located in Kent, England.
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TIDE
TIDE is a U.S. government centralized database that stores and manages information on known or suspected terrorists for use by intelligence and security agencies.
- 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: The Tide Target entity description: The Tide is a common shorthand for the University of Alabama’s storied Crimson Tide athletic programs, especially its powerhouse college football team.
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A.
Tide
Tide is a leading American laundry detergent brand known for its powerful stain-removal formulas and wide range of fabric care products.
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B.
Tidal
Tidal is a subscription-based music streaming service known for its high-fidelity audio quality and artist-owned business model.
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C.
Tidal
Tidal is the critically acclaimed 1996 debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple, known for its introspective lyrics and jazz-influenced alternative rock sound.
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D.
Bluewater
Bluewater is a large out-of-town shopping and leisure centre located in Kent, England.
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E.
TIDE
TIDE is a U.S. government centralized database that stores and manages information on known or suspected terrorists for use by intelligence and security agencies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: The Tide Description of subject: The Tide is a common shorthand for the University of Alabama’s storied Crimson Tide athletic programs, especially its powerhouse college football team.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Tide