NCAA women’s ice hockey tournament

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college sports tournament women’s ice hockey competition

The NCAA women’s ice hockey tournament is the annual national championship playoff that determines the top collegiate women’s ice hockey team in the United States.

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Label	Occurrences
NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Championship	5
NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Championship	5
NCAA women’s ice hockey tournament canonical	3
NCAA National Collegiate Women’s Ice Hockey Championship	2
NCAA women's ice hockey tournament	2
NCAA Division I Women’s Ice Hockey Championship	1
NCAA Division I Women’s Ice Hockey Championship tournament	1
NCAA Division I women's ice hockey championship	1
NCAA Division I women’s ice hockey tournament	1
NCAA Women's Frozen Four	1
NCAA Women’s Frozen Four	1
NCAA ice hockey championships	1
NCAA women's ice hockey championship	1
NCAA women’s Frozen Four	1
NCAA women’s ice hockey conference tournaments	1
NCAA women’s ice hockey national champion	1
NCAA women’s ice hockey national championship	1
NCAA women’s ice hockey national championship trophy	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T350987 — 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: NCAA women’s ice hockey tournament
Context triple: [Harvard Crimson women’s ice hockey, eligibleFor, NCAA women’s ice hockey tournament]

A. NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship
The NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship is the annual national tournament that determines the top collegiate men's ice hockey team in the United States.
B. NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament
The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament is the annual single-elimination championship that determines the top women’s college basketball team in the United States.
C. IIHF Women’s World Championship
The IIHF Women’s World Championship is the premier annual international tournament for women’s ice hockey national teams, featuring top-level competition sanctioned by the sport’s global governing body.
D. NCAA women’s basketball
NCAA women’s basketball is the governing body’s collegiate-level women’s basketball competition in the United States, featuring university teams across multiple divisions.
E. Hockey East tournaments
Hockey East tournaments are annual collegiate ice hockey championship events featuring teams from the Hockey East conference competing for conference titles and NCAA tournament berths.
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: NCAA women’s ice hockey tournament
Target entity description: The NCAA women’s ice hockey tournament is the annual national championship playoff that determines the top collegiate women’s ice hockey team in the United States.

A. NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship
The NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship is the annual national tournament that determines the top collegiate men's ice hockey team in the United States.
B. NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament
The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament is the annual single-elimination championship that determines the top women’s college basketball team in the United States.
C. IIHF Women’s World Championship
The IIHF Women’s World Championship is the premier annual international tournament for women’s ice hockey national teams, featuring top-level competition sanctioned by the sport’s global governing body.
D. NCAA women’s basketball
NCAA women’s basketball is the governing body’s collegiate-level women’s basketball competition in the United States, featuring university teams across multiple divisions.
E. Hockey East tournaments
Hockey East tournaments are annual collegiate ice hockey championship events featuring teams from the Hockey East conference competing for conference titles and NCAA tournament berths.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	college sports tournament ⓘ women’s ice hockey competition ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	NCAA National Collegiate Women’s Ice Hockey Championship ⓘ linked to: NCAA women’s ice hockey tournament NCAA women’s Frozen Four ⓘ linked to: NCAA women’s ice hockey tournament
bracketStructure	quarterfinals, semifinals, championship game ⓘ
category	NCAA ice hockey championships ⓘ linked to: NCAA women’s ice hockey tournament Women’s college ice hockey in the United States ⓘ
championshipTrophy	NCAA women’s ice hockey national championship trophy ⓘ linked to: NCAA women’s ice hockey tournament
competitionLevel	NCAA Division I ⓘ college ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
determines	NCAA women’s ice hockey national champion ⓘ linked to: NCAA women’s ice hockey tournament
eligibility	NCAA member institutions sponsoring women’s ice hockey at the National Collegiate level ⓘ
expansionYearToEightTeams	2005 ⓘ
finalStageFormat	semifinals and final ⓘ
finalStageName	Frozen Four ⓘ
firstSeason	2000–01 ⓘ
format	single-elimination tournament ⓘ
foundedBy	NCAA ⓘ linked to: National Collegiate Athletic Association
frequency	annual ⓘ
gender	women ⓘ
governingBody	National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ
hasOvertimeRules	uses NCAA ice hockey overtime procedures ⓘ
inception	2001 ⓘ
includesConferences	College Hockey America ⓘ ECAC Hockey ⓘ Hockey East ⓘ NEWHA ⓘ WCHA ⓘ
numberOfTeams	8 ⓘ
numberOfTeamsAtInception	4 ⓘ
organizer	NCAA Division I Women’s Ice Hockey Committee ⓘ
primaryObjective	determine the top collegiate women’s ice hockey team in the United States ⓘ
regulatesEligibilityRules	NCAA ⓘ linked to: National Collegiate Athletic Association
relatedCompetition	NCAA Women’s Frozen Four ⓘ linked to: NCAA women’s ice hockey tournament NCAA men’s ice hockey tournament ⓘ linked to: NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship
replaced	AWCHA women’s ice hockey national championship ⓘ
scope	national championship ⓘ
seasonTiming	held in March ⓘ
seeding	teams are seeded based on regular-season and conference tournament performance ⓘ
selectionMethod	at-large bids and automatic qualifiers ⓘ
sport	women’s ice hockey ⓘ
televisionCoverage	ESPN networks ⓘ linked to: ESPN family of networks NCAA.com streaming ⓘ
venueType	games played at campus sites and predetermined neutral sites ⓘ

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