Brown Open Curriculum
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The Brown Open Curriculum is Brown University's distinctive undergraduate academic framework that lets students design their own course of study with minimal requirements and an emphasis on exploration and intellectual independence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brown Open Curriculum canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1490627 — 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: Brown Open Curriculum Context triple: [Brown University Department of Computer Science, followsAcademicSystem, Brown Open Curriculum]
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A.
OpenCourseWare movement
The OpenCourseWare movement is a global initiative in which universities and educators freely share course materials and educational resources online to promote open access to knowledge.
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B.
Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources are freely accessible, openly licensed teaching and learning materials that can be used, adapted, and shared by educators and learners worldwide.
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C.
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare is a free, web-based publication of virtually all Massachusetts Institute of Technology course content, offering open access to lecture notes, exams, and other educational materials to learners worldwide.
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D.
Open Knowledge Foundation
Open Knowledge Foundation is a global nonprofit organization that promotes open data and open knowledge to foster transparency, innovation, and civic engagement.
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E.
UNESCO 2019 OER Recommendation
The UNESCO 2019 OER Recommendation is a global policy framework adopted by UNESCO member states to promote the creation, use, and sharing of open educational resources in support of inclusive and equitable quality education.
- 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: Brown Open Curriculum Target entity description: The Brown Open Curriculum is Brown University's distinctive undergraduate academic framework that lets students design their own course of study with minimal requirements and an emphasis on exploration and intellectual independence.
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A.
OpenCourseWare movement
The OpenCourseWare movement is a global initiative in which universities and educators freely share course materials and educational resources online to promote open access to knowledge.
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B.
Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources are freely accessible, openly licensed teaching and learning materials that can be used, adapted, and shared by educators and learners worldwide.
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C.
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare is a free, web-based publication of virtually all Massachusetts Institute of Technology course content, offering open access to lecture notes, exams, and other educational materials to learners worldwide.
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D.
Open Knowledge Foundation
Open Knowledge Foundation is a global nonprofit organization that promotes open data and open knowledge to foster transparency, innovation, and civic engagement.
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E.
UNESCO 2019 OER Recommendation
The UNESCO 2019 OER Recommendation is a global policy framework adopted by UNESCO member states to promote the creation, use, and sharing of open educational resources in support of inclusive and equitable quality education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic framework
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educational innovation ⓘ undergraduate curriculum model ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
encourage risk-taking in course selection
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foster responsibility for one’s own education ⓘ promote independent thinking ⓘ reduce emphasis on grades ⓘ |
| allows |
students to design their own course of study
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students to explore widely across disciplines ⓘ students to take courses Satisfactory/No Credit ⓘ students to take courses outside their concentration without penalty ⓘ |
| appliesTo | Brown University undergraduate program ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Brown University undergraduate liberal arts education ⓘ |
| city |
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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surface form:
Providence, Rhode Island
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| contrastsWith |
distribution requirement systems
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traditional core curriculum models ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| emphasizes |
academic exploration
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intellectual independence ⓘ interdisciplinary study ⓘ student choice ⓘ |
| feature |
Satisfactory/No Credit grading option
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advising focused on self-directed study ⓘ flexible concentration requirements ⓘ no core curriculum ⓘ no distribution requirements ⓘ no general education requirements ⓘ shopping period for courses ⓘ student-designed concentrations ⓘ |
| implementedAt |
Brown University
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surface form:
Brown University College
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| influences |
Brown University admissions messaging
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student academic planning at Brown University ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Brown University ⓘ |
| knownFor |
high degree of academic freedom for undergraduates
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minimal mandatory requirements ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| requires |
completion of a concentration
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demonstration of writing competence ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
faculty advising
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peer advising programs ⓘ |
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: Brown Open Curriculum Description of subject: The Brown Open Curriculum is Brown University's distinctive undergraduate academic framework that lets students design their own course of study with minimal requirements and an emphasis on exploration and intellectual independence.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.