Mario's Miracle
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"Mario's Miracle" refers to Kansas guard Mario Chalmers’ game-tying three-pointer in the final seconds of regulation during the 2008 NCAA men’s basketball championship game, a shot widely regarded as one of the most clutch plays in college basketball history.
All labels observed (1)
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| Mario's Miracle canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6002499 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mario's Miracle Context triple: [2008 NCAA men's basketball championship, nickname, Mario's Miracle]
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A.
Mario the Magnificent
Mario the Magnificent is the dragon mascot of Drexel University, symbolizing the school's spirit and identity at athletic events and campus activities.
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B.
Super Mario Sunshine
Super Mario Sunshine is a 3D platformer in the Super Mario series known for its tropical Isle Delfino setting and the use of the water-spraying FLUDD device for movement and puzzle-solving.
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C.
Baby Mario
Baby Mario is the infant version of Nintendo’s iconic hero Mario, appearing as a playable character in various Mario spin-off and Yoshi games.
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D.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is a critically acclaimed role-playing game for the Nintendo GameCube that follows Mario on a humorous, story-driven quest through a papercraft world to uncover the secrets of an ancient sealed door.
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E.
Super Mario 3D Land
Super Mario 3D Land is a 2011 Nintendo 3DS platform game that blends classic 2D Mario level design with 3D movement and perspective-shifting stages.
- 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mario's Miracle Target entity description: "Mario's Miracle" refers to Kansas guard Mario Chalmers’ game-tying three-pointer in the final seconds of regulation during the 2008 NCAA men’s basketball championship game, a shot widely regarded as one of the most clutch plays in college basketball history.
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A.
Mario the Magnificent
Mario the Magnificent is the dragon mascot of Drexel University, symbolizing the school's spirit and identity at athletic events and campus activities.
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B.
Super Mario Sunshine
Super Mario Sunshine is a 3D platformer in the Super Mario series known for its tropical Isle Delfino setting and the use of the water-spraying FLUDD device for movement and puzzle-solving.
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C.
Baby Mario
Baby Mario is the infant version of Nintendo’s iconic hero Mario, appearing as a playable character in various Mario spin-off and Yoshi games.
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D.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is a critically acclaimed role-playing game for the Nintendo GameCube that follows Mario on a humorous, story-driven quest through a papercraft world to uncover the secrets of an ancient sealed door.
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E.
Super Mario 3D Land
Super Mario 3D Land is a 2011 Nintendo 3DS platform game that blends classic 2D Mario level design with 3D movement and perspective-shifting stages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball play
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college basketball moment ⓘ sports moment ⓘ |
| broadcastContext | nationally televised NCAA championship game ⓘ |
| city | San Antonio, Texas ⓘ |
| clutchReputation | widely regarded as one of the most clutch shots in college basketball history ⓘ |
| date | April 7, 2008 ⓘ |
| distanceFromBasket | behind the three-point line ⓘ |
| effectOnGame | sent the game to overtime ⓘ |
| event | 2008 NCAA Division I men’s basketball championship game ⓘ |
| finalOutcome | Kansas defeated Memphis in overtime ⓘ |
| gameSituation | Kansas trailing Memphis by three points ⓘ |
| importance | pivotal play in deciding the 2008 national championship ⓘ |
| legacy |
frequently replayed in NCAA tournament highlight reels
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often cited in discussions of greatest NCAA title-game moments ⓘ |
| levelOfCompetition |
NCAA Division I men’s basketball
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linked to:
NCAA Division I
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| location | Alamodome ⓘ |
| nicknameOrigin | named after Mario Chalmers ⓘ |
| opponentTeam | Memphis Tigers ⓘ |
| player | Mario Chalmers ⓘ |
| possessionContext | Kansas needed a three-pointer to avoid defeat ⓘ |
| refersTo | Mario Chalmers’ game-tying three-point field goal ⓘ |
| resultingChampion | Kansas Jayhawks ⓘ |
| scoreAfterPlay | Memphis 63 – Kansas 63 ⓘ |
| scoreBeforePlay | Memphis 63 – Kansas 60 ⓘ |
| shotType | three-point field goal ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| team | Kansas Jayhawks ⓘ |
| timeInGame | final seconds of regulation ⓘ |
| tournament |
2008 NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament
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linked to:
2008 NCAA men's basketball championship
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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: Mario's Miracle Description of subject: "Mario's Miracle" refers to Kansas guard Mario Chalmers’ game-tying three-pointer in the final seconds of regulation during the 2008 NCAA men’s basketball championship game, a shot widely regarded as one of the most clutch plays in college basketball history.
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