Silliman College
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Silliman College is one of Yale University's residential colleges, known for its large courtyard, active student community, and distinctive collegiate Gothic and Georgian architecture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Silliman | 1 |
| Silliman College canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T187193 — 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: Silliman College Context triple: [Yale College residential colleges, hasPart, Silliman College]
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A.
Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut, known for its rigorous academics, vibrant arts scene, and progressive campus culture.
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B.
Union College
Union College is a private liberal arts college in Schenectady, New York, known as one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the United States.
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C.
Williams College
Williams College is a highly selective private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, known for its strong undergraduate focus and small, residential campus.
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D.
Ezra Stiles College
Ezra Stiles College is one of Yale University's residential colleges, known for its distinctive modernist architecture and close-knit undergraduate community.
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E.
Saybrook College
Saybrook College is one of Yale University's historic residential colleges, known for its Collegiate Gothic architecture and central location on campus.
- 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: Silliman College Target entity description: Silliman College is one of Yale University's residential colleges, known for its large courtyard, active student community, and distinctive collegiate Gothic and Georgian architecture.
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A.
Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut, known for its rigorous academics, vibrant arts scene, and progressive campus culture.
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B.
Union College
Union College is a private liberal arts college in Schenectady, New York, known as one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the United States.
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C.
Williams College
Williams College is a highly selective private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, known for its strong undergraduate focus and small, residential campus.
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D.
Ezra Stiles College
Ezra Stiles College is one of Yale University's residential colleges, known for its distinctive modernist architecture and close-knit undergraduate community.
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E.
Saybrook College
Saybrook College is one of Yale University's historic residential colleges, known for its Collegiate Gothic architecture and central location on campus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Yale residential college
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collegiate residential community ⓘ |
| affiliation | Yale University ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Collegiate Gothic
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Georgian ⓘ |
| campus | Yale University campus ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| educationLevel | undergraduate ⓘ |
| hasAmenity |
academic support spaces
ⓘ
on-site dining ⓘ recreational facilities ⓘ social gathering spaces ⓘ |
| hasCommunity |
Yale College students
ⓘ
college staff ⓘ resident fellows ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
buttery
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common room ⓘ courtyard lawn ⓘ dining hall ⓘ faculty offices ⓘ game room ⓘ gates on College Street ⓘ gates on Grove Street ⓘ gates on Wall Street ⓘ large central courtyard ⓘ laundry facilities ⓘ library ⓘ music practice rooms ⓘ residential courtyard ⓘ residential suites ⓘ student activity spaces ⓘ student art spaces ⓘ study rooms ⓘ theater or performance space ⓘ underground passageways ⓘ |
| hasType | undergraduate residential college ⓘ |
| isOneOf |
Yale College residential colleges
ⓘ
surface form:
Yale residential college system
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| knownFor |
active student community
ⓘ
college traditions ⓘ distinctive architecture ⓘ intramural sports participation ⓘ large courtyard ⓘ student-run events ⓘ |
| languageOfInstitution | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | New Haven, Connecticut ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Benjamin Silliman ⓘ |
| partOf | Yale College ⓘ |
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: Silliman College Description of subject: Silliman College is one of Yale University's residential colleges, known for its large courtyard, active student community, and distinctive collegiate Gothic and Georgian architecture.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Silliman