Spokane University
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Spokane University was a small, now-defunct private college in Spokane, Washington, historically notable as an early educational institution attended by painter Clyfford Still.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Spokane University canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5122452 — 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: Spokane University Context triple: [Clyfford Still, educatedAt, Spokane University]
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A.
Eastern Washington University Spokane campus
Eastern Washington University Spokane campus is an urban branch of Eastern Washington University located in downtown Spokane, offering professional and health sciences programs in collaboration with other regional institutions.
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B.
Seattle University
Seattle University is a private Jesuit Catholic university located in Seattle, Washington, known for its liberal arts, professional programs, and urban campus.
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C.
Eastern Washington University
Eastern Washington University is a public university in Cheney, Washington, known for its comprehensive undergraduate and graduate programs and its role as a regional center for higher education in the Inland Northwest.
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D.
Boise State University
Boise State University is a public research university best known for its blue turf football field and comprehensive academic programs in Idaho’s capital city.
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E.
Western Washington University
Western Washington University is a public university in Bellingham, Washington, known for its strong liberal arts and sciences programs and scenic campus overlooking Bellingham Bay.
- 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: Spokane University Target entity description: Spokane University was a small, now-defunct private college in Spokane, Washington, historically notable as an early educational institution attended by painter Clyfford Still.
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A.
Eastern Washington University Spokane campus
Eastern Washington University Spokane campus is an urban branch of Eastern Washington University located in downtown Spokane, offering professional and health sciences programs in collaboration with other regional institutions.
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B.
Seattle University
Seattle University is a private Jesuit Catholic university located in Seattle, Washington, known for its liberal arts, professional programs, and urban campus.
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C.
Eastern Washington University
Eastern Washington University is a public university in Cheney, Washington, known for its comprehensive undergraduate and graduate programs and its role as a regional center for higher education in the Inland Northwest.
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D.
Boise State University
Boise State University is a public research university best known for its blue turf football field and comprehensive academic programs in Idaho’s capital city.
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E.
Western Washington University
Western Washington University is a public university in Bellingham, Washington, known for its strong liberal arts and sciences programs and scenic campus overlooking Bellingham Bay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct private college
ⓘ
educational institution ⓘ |
| attendedBy | Clyfford Still ⓘ |
| city |
Spokane
ⓘ
linked to:
Spokane, Washington
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| country |
USA
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States of America ⓘ |
| hasNotableAlumnus | Clyfford Still ⓘ |
| historicallyNotableFor | being an early educational institution attended by painter Clyfford Still ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Spokane, Washington ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Washington ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| operatedAs | private college ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
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: Spokane University Description of subject: Spokane University was a small, now-defunct private college in Spokane, Washington, historically notable as an early educational institution attended by painter Clyfford Still.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Clyfford