FBS
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FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) is the highest level of NCAA Division I college football in the United States, featuring the largest programs and major bowl games.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FBS canonical | 16 |
| NCAA Division I FBS | 7 |
| NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision | 4 |
| NCAA Division I FBS teams | 2 |
| Division I FBS | 1 |
| NCAA Division I FBS players | 1 |
| NCAA Division I FBS schools | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T76845 — 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: FBS Context triple: [Golden Bears, athleticSubdivision, FBS]
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A.
FCS
FCS is the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision, the tier of top-level college football that determines its national champion through a playoff system rather than traditional bowl games.
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B.
NCAA Division I FCS
NCAA Division I FCS is the second tier of top-level college football in the United States, featuring schools that offer fewer athletic scholarships than the higher-profile FBS and that compete in an NCAA-run playoff to determine a national champion.
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C.
MEAC
The MEAC (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) is a collegiate athletic conference of historically Black colleges and universities competing in NCAA Division I, primarily in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
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D.
AFC
The AFC (American Football Conference) is one of the two conferences that make up the National Football League, comprising 16 teams that compete for a spot in the Super Bowl.
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E.
FRA
FRA is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code that uniquely identifies France in international standards and data systems.
- 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: FBS Target entity description: FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) is the highest level of NCAA Division I college football in the United States, featuring the largest programs and major bowl games.
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A.
FCS
FCS is the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision, the tier of top-level college football that determines its national champion through a playoff system rather than traditional bowl games.
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B.
NCAA Division I FCS
NCAA Division I FCS is the second tier of top-level college football in the United States, featuring schools that offer fewer athletic scholarships than the higher-profile FBS and that compete in an NCAA-run playoff to determine a national champion.
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C.
MEAC
The MEAC (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) is a collegiate athletic conference of historically Black colleges and universities competing in NCAA Division I, primarily in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
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D.
AFC
The AFC (American Football Conference) is one of the two conferences that make up the National Football League, comprising 16 teams that compete for a spot in the Super Bowl.
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E.
FRA
FRA is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code that uniquely identifies France in international standards and data systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA football subdivision
ⓘ
NCAA football subdivision ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
New Year’s Six bowls
ⓘ
major bowl games ⓘ |
| championshipDeterminedBy | College Football Playoff ⓘ |
| competitionFormat | regular season plus bowl games ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | top tier of college football in the United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distinguishedBy |
bowl-based postseason system
ⓘ
greater football revenues ⓘ higher athletic scholarships limits ⓘ larger football program size ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom | lower NCAA football divisions ⓘ |
| formerName |
NCAA Division I-A
ⓘ
linked to:
Football Bowl Subdivision
|
| fullName | Football Bowl Subdivision ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Power conferences
ⓘ
non-power conferences ⓘ |
| includes |
Group of Five conference teams
ⓘ
Power Five conference teams ⓘ conference championship games ⓘ major college football programs ⓘ |
| level | highest level of NCAA college football ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage | national sports networks ⓘ |
| memberType | NCAA member institutions ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
highest visibility in college football
ⓘ
largest college football stadiums ⓘ |
| numberOfTeams | over 120 schools ⓘ |
| parallelSubdivision |
FCS
ⓘ
Football Championship Subdivision ⓘ
linked to:
NCAA Division I FCS
|
| partOf | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| postseasonFormat |
College Football Playoff
ⓘ
bowl games ⓘ |
| predecessor |
NCAA Division I-A
ⓘ
linked to:
Football Bowl Subdivision
|
| primaryAudience | college football fans ⓘ |
| recognizedBy |
NCAA
ⓘ
linked to:
National Collegiate Athletic Association
|
| reorganizedFrom |
NCAA Division I football
ⓘ
linked to:
Football Bowl Subdivision
|
| requires |
higher financial commitment to football
ⓘ
minimum football attendance standards ⓘ |
| revenueSource |
bowl payouts
ⓘ
sponsorships ⓘ television contracts ⓘ ticket sales ⓘ |
| scholarshipLimit | higher than FCS football ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf |
NCAA Division I football
ⓘ
linked to:
NCAA Division I
|
| televisionRights | major national broadcast contracts ⓘ |
| timeOfYear | fall football season ⓘ |
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: FBS Description of subject: FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) is the highest level of NCAA Division I college football in the United States, featuring the largest programs and major bowl games.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Civil War (historic football rivalry name)
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Independence Bowl (college football bowl game)
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SBC
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Trojans
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