Conference USA football
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Conference USA football is an NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) collegiate athletic conference featuring member schools primarily from the southern and southeastern United States.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3982386 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Conference USA football Context triple: [UTEP Miners football team, governingConference, Conference USA football]
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Football Conference
The Football Conference was the former name of England’s fifth-tier national football league, sitting directly below the Football League in the English football pyramid.
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B.
CAA Football
CAA Football is the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) conference that organizes and governs college football competition for member schools primarily along the U.S. East Coast.
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NCAA football
NCAA football is the college-level version of American football in the United States, played by teams representing universities and colleges under the governance of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
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NFL Kickoff Game
The NFL Kickoff Game is the league’s annual season-opening primetime matchup, typically featuring the defending Super Bowl champion and serving as a major televised event to launch the new NFL season.
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E.
College Football Playoff
The College Football Playoff is the postseason system that determines the national champion of top-tier U.S. college football through a bracket-style tournament of elite teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Conference USA football Target entity description: Conference USA football is an NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) collegiate athletic conference featuring member schools primarily from the southern and southeastern United States.
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A.
Football Conference
The Football Conference was the former name of England’s fifth-tier national football league, sitting directly below the Football League in the English football pyramid.
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B.
CAA Football
CAA Football is the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) conference that organizes and governs college football competition for member schools primarily along the U.S. East Coast.
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C.
NCAA football
NCAA football is the college-level version of American football in the United States, played by teams representing universities and colleges under the governance of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
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D.
NFL Kickoff Game
The NFL Kickoff Game is the league’s annual season-opening primetime matchup, typically featuring the defending Super Bowl champion and serving as a major televised event to launch the new NFL season.
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E.
College Football Playoff
The College Football Playoff is the postseason system that determines the national champion of top-tier U.S. college football through a bracket-style tournament of elite teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA Division I FBS conference
ⓘ
college football conference ⓘ |
| bowlSubdivisionStatus | FBS ⓘ |
| bowlTieIn |
Armed Forces Bowl
ⓘ
Bahamas Bowl ⓘ Boca Raton Bowl ⓘ
linked to:
Bahamas Bowl
First Responder Bowl ⓘ Hawaii Bowl ⓘ Independence Bowl ⓘ New Mexico Bowl ⓘ New Orleans Bowl ⓘ |
| competitionType | college athletics conference competition ⓘ |
| conferenceChampionshipGame |
Conference USA Football Championship Game
ⓘ
linked to:
Conference USA football
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| currentlyPartOf |
College Football Playoff system
ⓘ
linked to:
College Football Playoff
|
| division |
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
ⓘ
linked to:
Football Bowl Subdivision
|
| eligibility | NCAA member institutions ⓘ |
| formerMemberTeam |
Charlotte 49ers football
ⓘ
linked to:
UNC Charlotte 49ers football
Cincinnati Bearcats football ⓘ
linked to:
Cincinnati Bearcats
East Carolina Pirates football ⓘ Florida Atlantic Owls football ⓘ
linked to:
Florida Atlantic Owls football team
Houston Cougars football ⓘ
linked to:
Houston Cougars
Louisville Cardinals football ⓘ Marshall Thundering Herd football ⓘ Memphis Tigers football ⓘ
linked to:
Memphis Tigers
North Texas Mean Green football ⓘ
linked to:
North Texas Mean Green
Old Dominion Monarchs football ⓘ
linked to:
ODU Monarchs
Rice Owls football ⓘ SMU Mustangs football ⓘ
linked to:
SMU Mustangs
TCU Horned Frogs football ⓘ
linked to:
TCU Horned Frogs
Tulane Green Wave football ⓘ UCF Knights football ⓘ
linked to:
UCF Knights
UTSA Roadrunners football ⓘ
linked to:
UTSA Roadrunners football team
|
| founded | 1995 ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| governsTeam |
Florida International Panthers football
ⓘ
linked to:
Florida International University Panthers
Jacksonville State Gamecocks football ⓘ Kennesaw State Owls football ⓘ
linked to:
Kennesaw State Owls
Liberty Flames football ⓘ Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football ⓘ Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football ⓘ
linked to:
Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders
New Mexico State Aggies football ⓘ
linked to:
NM State Aggies
Sam Houston Bearkats football ⓘ
linked to:
Bearkats
UTEP Miners football ⓘ
linked to:
UTEP Miners football team
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football ⓘ
linked to:
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
|
| hasFormat | conference championship game ⓘ |
| hasPostseason | bowl games ⓘ |
| inception | 1996 football season ⓘ |
| level | major college football ⓘ |
| numberOfTeams | 10 ⓘ |
| organizer | Conference USA ⓘ |
| partOf | Conference USA ⓘ |
| playsInSeason | fall ⓘ |
| previouslySponsoredBy | Bowl Championship Series ⓘ |
| region |
Southeastern United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
Southern United States ⓘ |
| ruleSet | NCAA college football rules ⓘ |
| seasonStructure | regular season and championship game ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| subdivision | Football Bowl Subdivision ⓘ |
| televisionPartner |
CBS Sports Network
ⓘ
ESPN ⓘ ESPN+ ⓘ
linked to:
ESPN+ (streaming service)
ESPN2 ⓘ ESPNU ⓘ Stadium ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Conference USA football Description of subject: Conference USA football is an NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) collegiate athletic conference featuring member schools primarily from the southern and southeastern United States.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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