Sam Houston State University
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Sam Houston State University is a public university in Huntsville, Texas, known for its strong criminal justice, education, and business programs.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sam Houston State University canonical | 14 |
| Sam Houston State Teachers College | 2 |
| Sam Houston Normal Institute | 1 |
| Sam Houston State College | 1 |
| Sam Houston State University campus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1281215 — 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: Sam Houston State University Context triple: [Western Athletic Conference, hasCurrentMember, Sam Houston State University]
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A.
Texas Southern University
Texas Southern University is a historically Black public university in Houston, Texas, known for its significant contributions to African American higher education and culture.
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B.
Tarleton State University
Tarleton State University is a public university in Texas known for its agricultural, education, and business programs and its affiliation with the Texas A&M University System.
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C.
Hardin–Simmons University
Hardin–Simmons University is a private Baptist university in Abilene, Texas, known for its Christian-centered liberal arts education and regional academic and athletic history.
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D.
Texas A&M University–Texarkana
Texas A&M University–Texarkana is a regional public university in Texarkana, Texas, offering undergraduate and graduate programs as part of the Texas A&M University System.
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E.
Texas A&M University–Central Texas
Texas A&M University–Central Texas is a public regional university in Killeen, Texas, serving primarily upper-division undergraduates and graduate students as part of the Texas A&M University System.
- 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: Sam Houston State University Target entity description: Sam Houston State University is a public university in Huntsville, Texas, known for its strong criminal justice, education, and business programs.
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A.
Texas Southern University
Texas Southern University is a historically Black public university in Houston, Texas, known for its significant contributions to African American higher education and culture.
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B.
Tarleton State University
Tarleton State University is a public university in Texas known for its agricultural, education, and business programs and its affiliation with the Texas A&M University System.
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C.
Hardin–Simmons University
Hardin–Simmons University is a private Baptist university in Abilene, Texas, known for its Christian-centered liberal arts education and regional academic and athletic history.
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D.
Texas A&M University–Texarkana
Texas A&M University–Texarkana is a regional public university in Texarkana, Texas, offering undergraduate and graduate programs as part of the Texas A&M University System.
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E.
Texas A&M University–Central Texas
Texas A&M University–Central Texas is a public regional university in Killeen, Texas, serving primarily upper-division undergraduates and graduate students as part of the Texas A&M University System.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Sam Houston State University Description of subject: Sam Houston State University is a public university in Huntsville, Texas, known for its strong criminal justice, education, and business programs.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Huntsville, Texas
this entity surface form:
Sam Houston Normal Institute
this entity surface form:
Sam Houston State Teachers College
this entity surface form:
Sam Houston State College
this entity surface form:
Sam Houston State Teachers College
this entity surface form:
Sam Houston State University campus
Board of Regents of the Texas State University System
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hasAuthorityOver
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Sam Houston State University
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subject surface form:
Walker County, Texas
subject surface form:
Walker County, Texas