MAC
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The Mid-American Conference (MAC) is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that sponsors NCAA Division I sports, primarily among universities in the Midwest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| MAC canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3478085 — 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: MAC Context triple: [Mid-American Conference, abbreviation, MAC]
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MAC
MAC is the acronym for the Military Armistice Commission, the body responsible for supervising the implementation of the Korean Armistice Agreement.
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MAC
The MAC is an NCAA Division III athletic conference in the Middle Atlantic region of the United States, sponsoring intercollegiate sports among its member colleges and universities.
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MAC
MAC is the IATA airport code for Macon Downtown Airport, a public airport serving the city of Macon, Georgia, in the United States.
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Mac
Mac is Apple’s line of personal computers known for their sleek hardware design and tight integration with the macOS operating system.
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Mac
Mac is one of the main characters on the sitcom "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," known for his delusional self-image, obsession with toughness and martial arts, and often misguided religious zeal.
- 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: MAC Target entity description: The Mid-American Conference (MAC) is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that sponsors NCAA Division I sports, primarily among universities in the Midwest.
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A.
MAC
MAC is the acronym for the Military Armistice Commission, the body responsible for supervising the implementation of the Korean Armistice Agreement.
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B.
MAC
The MAC is an NCAA Division III athletic conference in the Middle Atlantic region of the United States, sponsoring intercollegiate sports among its member colleges and universities.
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C.
MAC
MAC is the IATA airport code for Macon Downtown Airport, a public airport serving the city of Macon, Georgia, in the United States.
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Mac
Mac is Apple’s line of personal computers known for their sleek hardware design and tight integration with the macOS operating system.
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E.
Mac
Mac is one of the main characters on the sitcom "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," known for his delusional self-image, obsession with toughness and martial arts, and often misguided religious zeal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: MAC Description of subject: The Mid-American Conference (MAC) is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that sponsors NCAA Division I sports, primarily among universities in the Midwest.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
MAC
subject linked to:
West Division
subject linked to:
Western Michigan Broncos men’s basketball