Saint Mary’s University
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Saint Mary’s University is a public, primarily undergraduate institution in Halifax, Nova Scotia, known for its strong business, arts, and science programs and active research culture.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint Mary’s University canonical | 5 |
| Saint Mary's University | 1 |
| St. Mary’s University, Texas | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T856292 — 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: Saint Mary’s University Context triple: [Halifax, hasUniversity, Saint Mary’s University]
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A.
University of St. Thomas
The University of St. Thomas is a private Catholic university known for its liberal arts and professional programs, with its main campus located in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota.
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B.
College of Saint Mary
College of Saint Mary is a private Catholic women's university in Omaha, Nebraska, known for its focus on empowering women through undergraduate and graduate programs.
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C.
Marymount University
Marymount University is a private Catholic liberal arts university located in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.
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D.
Seton Hill University
Seton Hill University is a private Catholic liberal arts university located in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
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E.
Xavier University
Xavier University is a private Jesuit Catholic university known for its strong liberal arts programs and competitive NCAA Division I athletics.
- 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: Saint Mary’s University Target entity description: Saint Mary’s University is a public, primarily undergraduate institution in Halifax, Nova Scotia, known for its strong business, arts, and science programs and active research culture.
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A.
University of St. Thomas
The University of St. Thomas is a private Catholic university known for its liberal arts and professional programs, with its main campus located in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota.
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B.
College of Saint Mary
College of Saint Mary is a private Catholic women's university in Omaha, Nebraska, known for its focus on empowering women through undergraduate and graduate programs.
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C.
Marymount University
Marymount University is a private Catholic liberal arts university located in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.
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D.
Seton Hill University
Seton Hill University is a private Catholic liberal arts university located in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
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E.
Xavier University
Xavier University is a private Jesuit Catholic university known for its strong liberal arts programs and competitive NCAA Division I athletics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public university
ⓘ
research institution ⓘ undergraduate university ⓘ |
| city |
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
ⓘ
surface form:
Halifax
|
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| educationLevel | primarily undergraduate ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
arts
ⓘ
business ⓘ sciences ⓘ |
| hasAttribute |
research-intensive
ⓘ
teaching-focused ⓘ |
| hasCampusType | urban campus ⓘ |
| hasFocus |
research and scholarship
ⓘ
undergraduate education ⓘ |
| knownFor |
active research culture
ⓘ
arts programs ⓘ business programs ⓘ science programs ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Atlantic Time Zone ⓘ |
| offers |
graduate programs
ⓘ
undergraduate degrees ⓘ |
| partOf |
Canadian higher education system
ⓘ
higher education in Nova Scotia ⓘ |
| province | Nova Scotia ⓘ |
| regionServed | Atlantic Canada ⓘ |
| sector | public ⓘ |
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: Saint Mary’s University Description of subject: Saint Mary’s University is a public, primarily undergraduate institution in Halifax, Nova Scotia, known for its strong business, arts, and science programs and active research culture.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
St. Mary’s University, Texas
subject surface form:
Halifax Regional Municipality
this entity surface form:
Saint Mary's University