DeKalb main campus
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DeKalb main campus is the primary campus of Northern Illinois University, located in DeKalb, Illinois and serving as the institution’s central hub for academic, residential, and administrative activities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| DeKalb main campus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4630922 — 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: DeKalb main campus Context triple: [Northern Illinois University, hasCampus, DeKalb main campus]
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A.
Lincoln Park Campus
Lincoln Park Campus is DePaul University's main residential campus in Chicago, known for its traditional collegiate setting and proximity to the Lincoln Park neighborhood and lakefront.
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B.
Schaumburg Campus
Schaumburg Campus is Roosevelt University's suburban campus located in Schaumburg, Illinois, serving as a regional center for the university's academic programs.
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C.
Lisle campus
Lisle campus is the main suburban Chicago-area campus of Benedictine University, housing its primary academic, residential, and administrative facilities.
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D.
Springfield Campus
Springfield Campus is a University of Wolverhampton site known for its focus on engineering, technology, and innovation facilities.
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E.
Evanston lakefront campus
Evanston lakefront campus is Northwestern University’s scenic main campus area along Lake Michigan in Evanston, Illinois, known for housing several key academic and administrative facilities.
- 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: DeKalb main campus Target entity description: DeKalb main campus is the primary campus of Northern Illinois University, located in DeKalb, Illinois and serving as the institution’s central hub for academic, residential, and administrative activities.
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A.
Lincoln Park Campus
Lincoln Park Campus is DePaul University's main residential campus in Chicago, known for its traditional collegiate setting and proximity to the Lincoln Park neighborhood and lakefront.
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B.
Schaumburg Campus
Schaumburg Campus is Roosevelt University's suburban campus located in Schaumburg, Illinois, serving as a regional center for the university's academic programs.
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C.
Lisle campus
Lisle campus is the main suburban Chicago-area campus of Benedictine University, housing its primary academic, residential, and administrative facilities.
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D.
Springfield Campus
Springfield Campus is a University of Wolverhampton site known for its focus on engineering, technology, and innovation facilities.
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E.
Evanston lakefront campus
Evanston lakefront campus is Northwestern University’s scenic main campus area along Lake Michigan in Evanston, Illinois, known for housing several key academic and administrative facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Northern Illinois University campus
ⓘ
university campus ⓘ |
| campusType | main campus ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| function |
academic hub of Northern Illinois University
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administrative hub of Northern Illinois University ⓘ residential hub of Northern Illinois University ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | NIU DeKalb campus ⓘ |
| hasAffiliation | public university system of Illinois ⓘ |
| hasCampusSetting | college town ⓘ |
| hasCity | DeKalb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasInstitution | Northern Illinois University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryFunction | higher education ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Midwestern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasState | Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
DeKalb County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
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DeKalb, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| partOf | Northern Illinois University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | primary campus of Northern Illinois University ⓘ |
| servesAs |
central hub for academic activities
ⓘ
central hub for administrative activities ⓘ central hub for residential activities ⓘ |
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: DeKalb main campus Description of subject: DeKalb main campus is the primary campus of Northern Illinois University, located in DeKalb, Illinois and serving as the institution’s central hub for academic, residential, and administrative activities.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.