Valley State College
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Valley State College was the original name of what is now California State University, Northridge, a public university in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Valley State College canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1779700 — 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: Valley State College Context triple: [California State University, Northridge, formerName, Valley State College]
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A.
Columbus State Community College
Columbus State Community College is a large public two-year college in Columbus, Ohio, offering associate degrees, certificates, and workforce training across a wide range of academic and technical fields.
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B.
Columbus State University
Columbus State University is a public university in Columbus, Georgia, known for its diverse academic programs and strong emphasis on the arts, business, and education.
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C.
Chipola College
Chipola College is a public community college in Marianna, Florida, serving Jackson County and the surrounding region with two-year degrees, limited bachelor’s programs, and workforce training.
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D.
Mott Community College
Mott Community College is a public community college in Flint, Michigan, offering a range of associate degrees, certificates, and workforce training programs.
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E.
Wayne County Community College District
Wayne County Community College District is a public community college system serving students across multiple campuses in and around Detroit, Michigan.
- 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: Valley State College Target entity description: Valley State College was the original name of what is now California State University, Northridge, a public university in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles.
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A.
Columbus State Community College
Columbus State Community College is a large public two-year college in Columbus, Ohio, offering associate degrees, certificates, and workforce training across a wide range of academic and technical fields.
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B.
Columbus State University
Columbus State University is a public university in Columbus, Georgia, known for its diverse academic programs and strong emphasis on the arts, business, and education.
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C.
Chipola College
Chipola College is a public community college in Marianna, Florida, serving Jackson County and the surrounding region with two-year degrees, limited bachelor’s programs, and workforce training.
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D.
Mott Community College
Mott Community College is a public community college in Flint, Michigan, offering a range of associate degrees, certificates, and workforce training programs.
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E.
Wayne County Community College District
Wayne County Community College District is a public community college system serving students across multiple campuses in and around Detroit, Michigan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
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: Valley State College Description of subject: Valley State College was the original name of what is now California State University, Northridge, a public university in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
California State University, Northridge
subject surface form:
San Fernando Valley State College