Goddard College
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Goddard College is a progressive, low-residency liberal arts college in Vermont known for its individualized, student-directed education.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Goddard College canonical | 22 |
| faculty of Goddard College | 2 |
| Goddard College athletics | 1 |
| Goddard College low-residency programs | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2474863 — 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: Goddard College Context triple: [Howard Ashman, educatedAt, Goddard College]
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A.
Milligan College
Milligan College is a private Christian liberal arts college in Tennessee known for its strong emphasis on faith-based education and service.
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B.
Guilford College
Guilford College is a small private liberal arts college in Greensboro, North Carolina, historically affiliated with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
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C.
Hampshire College
Hampshire College is an experimental liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, known for its student-designed curricula, narrative evaluations, and membership in the Five College Consortium.
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D.
Middlebury College
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont, renowned for its strong undergraduate programs and prestigious language schools.
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E.
Salem College
Salem College is a historic liberal arts college for women located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, known as one of the oldest educational institutions for women in the United States.
- 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: Goddard College Target entity description: Goddard College is a progressive, low-residency liberal arts college in Vermont known for its individualized, student-directed education.
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A.
Milligan College
Milligan College is a private Christian liberal arts college in Tennessee known for its strong emphasis on faith-based education and service.
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B.
Guilford College
Guilford College is a small private liberal arts college in Greensboro, North Carolina, historically affiliated with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
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C.
Hampshire College
Hampshire College is an experimental liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, known for its student-designed curricula, narrative evaluations, and membership in the Five College Consortium.
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D.
Middlebury College
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont, renowned for its strong undergraduate programs and prestigious language schools.
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E.
Salem College
Salem College is a historic liberal arts college for women located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, known as one of the oldest educational institutions for women in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educational institution
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liberal arts college ⓘ low-residency college ⓘ private college ⓘ |
| academicFocus | liberal arts ⓘ |
| accreditationRegion | New England ⓘ |
| campusType | rural campus ⓘ |
| colors |
green
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white ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| educationModel |
individualized study
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low-residency ⓘ progressive education ⓘ student-directed learning ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
faculty advising
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interdisciplinary study ⓘ self-directed study plans ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Goddard Seminary ⓘ |
| foundingYear | 1938 ⓘ |
| governanceType | private, non-profit ⓘ |
| hasMainCampus | Plainfield campus ⓘ |
| hasMascot | Fighting Squirrels ⓘ |
| hasMotto | “To know, to do, to be” (commonly associated motto) ⓘ |
| knownFor |
individualized education
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low-residency programs ⓘ progressive pedagogy ⓘ student-directed education ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New England
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Plainfield, Vermont ⓘ Vermont ⓘ |
| offersDegree |
bachelor's degree
ⓘ
master's degree ⓘ |
| originYearOfPredecessor | 1863 ⓘ |
| pedagogicalApproach |
experiential learning
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learner-centered education ⓘ |
| residencyStructure |
independent study between residencies
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periodic on-campus residencies ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
| state | Vermont ⓘ |
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: Goddard College Description of subject: Goddard College is a progressive, low-residency liberal arts college in Vermont known for its individualized, student-directed education.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Page McConnell – keyboardist and vocalist
subject linked to:
Jon Fishman – drummer and vocalist
linked to: Goddard College
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linked to: Goddard College
linked to: Goddard College