Grinnell College
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Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, known for its rigorous academics, progressive values, and strong emphasis on undergraduate teaching and research.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Grinnell College canonical | 20 |
| Grinnell College campus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T140786 — 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: Grinnell College Context triple: [Robert N. Noyce, educatedAt, Grinnell College]
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A.
Carleton College
Carleton College is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, known for its rigorous academics, close-knit residential community, and strong emphasis on undergraduate education.
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B.
Oberlin College
Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio, known for its progressive history and strong emphasis on undergraduate education and the arts.
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C.
North Central College
North Central College is a private liberal arts college located in Naperville, Illinois, known for its strong undergraduate programs and historic campus.
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D.
Middlebury College
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont, renowned for its strong undergraduate programs and prestigious language schools.
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E.
Colorado College
Colorado College is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, known for its intensive Block Plan curriculum and small, residential campus.
- 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: Grinnell College Target entity description: Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, known for its rigorous academics, progressive values, and strong emphasis on undergraduate teaching and research.
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A.
Carleton College
Carleton College is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, known for its rigorous academics, close-knit residential community, and strong emphasis on undergraduate education.
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B.
Oberlin College
Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio, known for its progressive history and strong emphasis on undergraduate education and the arts.
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C.
North Central College
North Central College is a private liberal arts college located in Naperville, Illinois, known for its strong undergraduate programs and historic campus.
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D.
Middlebury College
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont, renowned for its strong undergraduate programs and prestigious language schools.
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E.
Colorado College
Colorado College is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, known for its intensive Block Plan curriculum and small, residential campus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
higher education institution
ⓘ
private liberal arts college ⓘ |
| academicFocus | liberal arts ⓘ |
| academicStructure | no core curriculum with open curriculum emphasis ⓘ |
| admissionsPolicy | highly selective ⓘ |
| campusSetting | small town ⓘ |
| campusType | residential ⓘ |
| controlType | private ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| emphasis |
undergraduate research
ⓘ
undergraduate teaching ⓘ |
| founder | Congregationalists from New England ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1846 ⓘ |
| fundingModel | tuition dependent with large endowment support ⓘ |
| governanceStructure | faculty governance traditions ⓘ |
| governedBy | Board of Trustees ⓘ |
| hasAcademicCalendar | semester system ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
low student-to-faculty ratio
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need-blind admission for U.S. students (policy historically associated) ⓘ no graduate programs in most fields ⓘ residential requirement for students ⓘ small student body ⓘ strong emphasis on social justice ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
athletic facilities
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college library ⓘ humanities and social science buildings ⓘ on-campus residence halls ⓘ science laboratories ⓘ student center ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
independent major option
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need-based financial aid ⓘ study abroad programs ⓘ undergraduate research programs ⓘ |
| knownFor |
progressive values
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rigorous academics ⓘ strong undergraduate research opportunities ⓘ strong undergraduate teaching ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Grinnell, Iowa
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Iowa ⓘ Poweshiek County, Iowa ⓘ |
| motto | Veritas et Humanitas ⓘ |
| mottoEnglish | Truth and Humanity ⓘ |
| mottoLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| offersDegree | Bachelor of Arts ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliationOrigin | Congregationalist ⓘ |
| studentLevel | undergraduate-focused ⓘ |
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: Grinnell College Description of subject: Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, known for its rigorous academics, progressive values, and strong emphasis on undergraduate teaching and research.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Central Iowa
subject surface form:
Central Iowa
this entity surface form:
Grinnell College campus
subject surface form:
Board of Trustees of Grinnell College
subject surface form:
Board of Trustees of Grinnell College
subject surface form:
Kumail Nanjiani