Yale University
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Yale University is an Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, renowned for its prestigious academic programs, historic campus, and influential alumni.
All labels observed (23)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2733 — 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: Yale University Context triple: [Lee de Forest, educatedAt, Yale University]
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a prestigious private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, renowned for its academic excellence, influential alumni, and historic leadership in higher education.
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Columbia University
Columbia University is an Ivy League research university renowned for its rigorous academics and influential role in scholarship, journalism, and public affairs.
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Tufts College
Tufts College is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, known for its strong programs in the liberal arts, sciences, and international relations.
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Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is Harvard University's primary graduate school for advanced study and research in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
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Stanford University
Stanford University is a prestigious private research university in the San Francisco Bay Area renowned for its academic excellence, innovation, and influence in technology and entrepreneurship.
- 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: Yale University Target entity description: Yale University is an Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, renowned for its prestigious academic programs, historic campus, and influential alumni.
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A.
Harvard University
Harvard University is a prestigious private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, renowned for its academic excellence, influential alumni, and historic leadership in higher education.
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B.
Columbia University
Columbia University is an Ivy League research university renowned for its rigorous academics and influential role in scholarship, journalism, and public affairs.
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C.
Tufts College
Tufts College is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, known for its strong programs in the liberal arts, sciences, and international relations.
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Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is Harvard University's primary graduate school for advanced study and research in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
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Stanford University
Stanford University is a prestigious private research university in the San Francisco Bay Area renowned for its academic excellence, innovation, and influence in technology and entrepreneurship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Yale University Description of subject: Yale University is an Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, renowned for its prestigious academic programs, historic campus, and influential alumni.
Referenced by (1,868)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yale College (historically)
subject surface form:
Lee de Forest
this entity surface form:
Yale College
this entity surface form:
Yale College
this entity surface form:
Yale University Facilities
this entity surface form:
Yale staff
this entity surface form:
Collegiate School (Yale College)
this entity surface form:
Yale College
subject surface form:
Hillhouse Avenue Historic District
this entity surface form:
Yale College
this entity surface form:
Yale College
subject surface form:
Shirley Ann Jackson