University of Clermont-Ferrand
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The University of Clermont-Ferrand was a French higher education institution in Clermont-Ferrand known for its role in mid-20th-century academic life and for employing notable intellectuals such as Michel Foucault.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| University of Clermont-Ferrand canonical | 3 |
| Université d’Auvergne | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1444202 — 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: University of Clermont-Ferrand Context triple: [Michel Foucault, employer, University of Clermont-Ferrand]
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A.
University of Lyon
The University of Lyon is a major French higher education and research hub in the Lyon metropolitan area, known for its strong programs in science, engineering, and the humanities.
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University of Orléans
The University of Orléans is a historic French university, renowned as a major Renaissance center for legal and humanist studies that attracted many prominent scholars and reformers.
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C.
University of Nantes
The University of Nantes is a major French public university located in the city of Nantes, offering a wide range of academic programs and research activities across multiple disciplines.
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D.
University of Grenoble
The University of Grenoble was a historic French higher education institution in Grenoble known for its strong programs in the humanities and sciences before being reorganized into several successor universities.
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E.
University of Toulouse
The University of Toulouse is a historic French higher education and research institution located in the city of Toulouse, known for its strong programs in science, engineering, and the humanities.
- 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: University of Clermont-Ferrand Target entity description: The University of Clermont-Ferrand was a French higher education institution in Clermont-Ferrand known for its role in mid-20th-century academic life and for employing notable intellectuals such as Michel Foucault.
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A.
University of Lyon
The University of Lyon is a major French higher education and research hub in the Lyon metropolitan area, known for its strong programs in science, engineering, and the humanities.
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B.
University of Orléans
The University of Orléans is a historic French university, renowned as a major Renaissance center for legal and humanist studies that attracted many prominent scholars and reformers.
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C.
University of Nantes
The University of Nantes is a major French public university located in the city of Nantes, offering a wide range of academic programs and research activities across multiple disciplines.
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D.
University of Grenoble
The University of Grenoble was a historic French higher education institution in Grenoble known for its strong programs in the humanities and sciences before being reorganized into several successor universities.
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E.
University of Toulouse
The University of Toulouse is a historic French higher education and research institution located in the city of Toulouse, known for its strong programs in science, engineering, and the humanities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public university
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university ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| employed | Michel Foucault ⓘ |
| employedAsPosition | Michel Foucault – academic staff member ⓘ |
| field | higher education ⓘ |
| hasAcademicStaff | Michel Foucault ⓘ |
| hasCampusSetting | urban ⓘ |
| hasCity | Clermont-Ferrand ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance |
development of French provincial universities
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history of French philosophy and humanities ⓘ |
| hasNotableFaculty | Michel Foucault ⓘ |
| hasRole |
regional academic center
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research institution ⓘ teaching institution ⓘ |
| hasSector | tertiary education ⓘ |
| hasType | higher education institution ⓘ |
| knownFor |
employing notable intellectuals
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role in mid-20th-century academic life ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Clermont-Ferrand ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Puy-de-Dôme ⓘ |
| locatedInContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | France ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Auvergne ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Clermont-Ferrand
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surface form:
city of Clermont-Ferrand
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| operatedInPeriod |
20th century
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mid-20th century ⓘ |
| partOf |
French higher education system
ⓘ
French public university network ⓘ |
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: University of Clermont-Ferrand Description of subject: The University of Clermont-Ferrand was a French higher education institution in Clermont-Ferrand known for its role in mid-20th-century academic life and for employing notable intellectuals such as Michel Foucault.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Université d’Auvergne