Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota
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Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota is a private Catholic university known for its liberal arts and professional programs, with its main campus located in Winona, Minnesota.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota canonical | 2 |
| Saint Mary's University of Minnesota | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3503658 — 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: Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota Context triple: [Winona, hasUniversity, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota]
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A.
Saint John's University (Minnesota)
Saint John's University (Minnesota) is a private Catholic liberal arts college for men in Collegeville, Minnesota, known for its Benedictine tradition and partnership with the College of Saint Benedict.
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B.
The College of St. Scholastica
The College of St. Scholastica is a private Benedictine Catholic liberal arts college known for its strong programs in health sciences, education, and the humanities.
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C.
University of St. Thomas
The University of St. Thomas is a private Catholic university known for its liberal arts and professional programs, with its main campus located in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota.
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D.
Saint Mary’s University
Saint Mary’s University is a public, primarily undergraduate institution in Halifax, Nova Scotia, known for its strong business, arts, and science programs and active research culture.
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E.
College of Saint Mary
College of Saint Mary is a private Catholic women's university in Omaha, Nebraska, known for its focus on empowering women through undergraduate and graduate programs.
- 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: Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota Target entity description: Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota is a private Catholic university known for its liberal arts and professional programs, with its main campus located in Winona, Minnesota.
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A.
Saint John's University (Minnesota)
Saint John's University (Minnesota) is a private Catholic liberal arts college for men in Collegeville, Minnesota, known for its Benedictine tradition and partnership with the College of Saint Benedict.
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B.
The College of St. Scholastica
The College of St. Scholastica is a private Benedictine Catholic liberal arts college known for its strong programs in health sciences, education, and the humanities.
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C.
University of St. Thomas
The University of St. Thomas is a private Catholic university known for its liberal arts and professional programs, with its main campus located in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota.
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D.
Saint Mary’s University
Saint Mary’s University is a public, primarily undergraduate institution in Halifax, Nova Scotia, known for its strong business, arts, and science programs and active research culture.
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E.
College of Saint Mary
College of Saint Mary is a private Catholic women's university in Omaha, Nebraska, known for its focus on empowering women through undergraduate and graduate programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
liberal arts college
ⓘ
private Catholic university ⓘ university in the United States ⓘ |
| academicFocus |
liberal arts
ⓘ
professional programs ⓘ |
| admissionsType | selective admissions ⓘ |
| campusType | main campus in Winona, Minnesota ⓘ |
| city | Winona ⓘ |
| controlType | private ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| emphasizes |
Catholic and Lasallian values
ⓘ
community engagement ⓘ experiential learning ⓘ |
| followsEducationalTradition |
Lasallian educational tradition
ⓘ
surface form:
Lasallian education tradition
|
| fundingType | nonprofit ⓘ |
| governanceType | board of trustees ⓘ |
| grantsDegree |
bachelor’s degrees
ⓘ
doctoral degrees ⓘ master’s degrees ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
arts
ⓘ
business ⓘ education ⓘ health and human services ⓘ humanities ⓘ sciences ⓘ |
| hasCampus |
Minneapolis campus
ⓘ
Rochester center ⓘ Winona campus ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
coeducational
ⓘ
residential (Winona undergraduate campus) ⓘ |
| hasMottoType | Catholic and Lasallian educational mission ⓘ |
| hasReligiousIdentity | Catholic ⓘ |
| hasStudentLevel |
adult learners
ⓘ
graduate students ⓘ traditional undergraduates ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Catholic higher education in the United States ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Winona, Minnesota, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Winona, Minnesota
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| offersModeOfStudy |
hybrid programs
ⓘ
on-campus programs ⓘ online programs ⓘ |
| offersProgramType |
doctoral programs
ⓘ
graduate programs ⓘ undergraduate programs ⓘ |
| regionServed | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
|
| religiousOrderAffiliation |
Lasallian
ⓘ
surface form:
Lasallian (De La Salle Christian Brothers)
|
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
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: Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota Description of subject: Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota is a private Catholic university known for its liberal arts and professional programs, with its main campus located in Winona, Minnesota.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mike Johanns
this entity surface form:
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota