Des Moines Area Community College
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Des Moines Area Community College is a large public community college in central Iowa offering a wide range of academic, technical, and transfer programs across multiple campuses.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3922276 — 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: Des Moines Area Community College Context triple: [Polk County, Iowa, hasHigherEducationInstitution, Des Moines Area Community College]
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A.
Des Moines Area Community College West Campus
Des Moines Area Community College West Campus is a branch of the Des Moines Area Community College system located in West Des Moines, Iowa, offering a range of two-year degree and certificate programs.
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B.
Iowa Western Community College
Iowa Western Community College is a public community college in western Iowa offering two-year degrees and vocational programs serving the greater Omaha–Council Bluffs region.
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C.
Western Iowa Tech Community College
Western Iowa Tech Community College is a public community college offering career, technical, and transfer programs to students in the Sioux City region of western Iowa.
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D.
Kirkwood Community College
Kirkwood Community College is a public community college in eastern Iowa offering a wide range of academic, technical, and continuing education programs.
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E.
Hawkeye Community College
Hawkeye Community College is a public two-year college serving the Cedar Valley region of Iowa with career, technical, and transfer-focused education 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: Des Moines Area Community College Target entity description: Des Moines Area Community College is a large public community college in central Iowa offering a wide range of academic, technical, and transfer programs across multiple campuses.
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A.
Des Moines Area Community College West Campus
Des Moines Area Community College West Campus is a branch of the Des Moines Area Community College system located in West Des Moines, Iowa, offering a range of two-year degree and certificate programs.
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B.
Iowa Western Community College
Iowa Western Community College is a public community college in western Iowa offering two-year degrees and vocational programs serving the greater Omaha–Council Bluffs region.
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C.
Western Iowa Tech Community College
Western Iowa Tech Community College is a public community college offering career, technical, and transfer programs to students in the Sioux City region of western Iowa.
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D.
Kirkwood Community College
Kirkwood Community College is a public community college in eastern Iowa offering a wide range of academic, technical, and continuing education programs.
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E.
Hawkeye Community College
Hawkeye Community College is a public two-year college serving the Cedar Valley region of Iowa with career, technical, and transfer-focused education programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
community college
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public college ⓘ two-year college ⓘ |
| accreditedBy | Higher Learning Commission ⓘ |
| athleticAssociation | NJCAA ⓘ |
| city | Ankeny, Iowa ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| fundingType | public ⓘ |
| governedBy | board of directors ⓘ |
| hasAthletics | intercollegiate sports ⓘ |
| hasCampus |
Ankeny, Iowa
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surface form:
Ankeny Campus
Boone Campus ⓘ Carroll Campus ⓘ Newton Campus ⓘ Urban Campus ⓘ West Campus ⓘ |
| hasCenter |
Ames Hunziker Center
ⓘ
Perry VanKirk Center ⓘ Southridge Center ⓘ |
| hasEducationalLevel | undergraduate ⓘ |
| hasFocus |
academic transfer education
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technical education ⓘ workforce training ⓘ |
| hasMascot |
bear
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surface form:
Bear
|
| hasProgram |
agriculture programs
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business programs ⓘ culinary arts programs ⓘ health sciences programs ⓘ industrial technology programs ⓘ information technology programs ⓘ liberal arts transfer program ⓘ |
| hasStudentHousing |
Boone Campus
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surface form:
Boone Campus housing
|
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Iowa
ⓘ
central Iowa ⓘ |
| offers |
associate degrees
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career and technical education programs ⓘ certificate programs ⓘ continuing education ⓘ diploma programs ⓘ distance education ⓘ online courses ⓘ transfer programs ⓘ |
| sector | public higher education ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
Des Moines–West Des Moines metropolitan area
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surface form:
Des Moines metropolitan area
central Iowa ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| type | public institution ⓘ |
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: Des Moines Area Community College Description of subject: Des Moines Area Community College is a large public community college in central Iowa offering a wide range of academic, technical, and transfer programs across multiple campuses.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Des Moines Area Community College West Campus
→
hasParentOrganization
→
Des Moines Area Community College
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Des Moines Area Community College system
this entity surface form:
Des Moines Area Community College Ankeny Campus
this entity surface form:
Des Moines Area Community College Newton Campus