Indiana State University
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Indiana State University is a public university in Terre Haute, Indiana, widely recognized for its Sycamores basketball program that starred Hall of Famer Larry Bird.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T194959 — 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: Indiana State University Context triple: [Larry Bird, college, Indiana State University]
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Indiana University
Indiana University is a major public research university system in the U.S. state of Indiana, known for its flagship campus in Bloomington and strong programs across the arts, sciences, and professional fields.
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Purdue University
Purdue University is a major public research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, renowned for its engineering, science, and technology programs.
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Eastern Illinois University
Eastern Illinois University is a public university in Charleston, Illinois, known for its strong liberal arts and teacher education programs.
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University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky is a major public research university in Lexington, Kentucky, known for its strong academic programs and powerhouse Wildcats basketball tradition.
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E.
University of Missouri
The University of Missouri is a major public research university in Columbia, Missouri, known for its flagship "Mizzou" campus, strong journalism and agriculture programs, and membership in the SEC athletic conference.
- 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: Indiana State University Target entity description: Indiana State University is a public university in Terre Haute, Indiana, widely recognized for its Sycamores basketball program that starred Hall of Famer Larry Bird.
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Indiana University
Indiana University is a major public research university system in the U.S. state of Indiana, known for its flagship campus in Bloomington and strong programs across the arts, sciences, and professional fields.
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B.
Purdue University
Purdue University is a major public research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, renowned for its engineering, science, and technology programs.
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C.
Eastern Illinois University
Eastern Illinois University is a public university in Charleston, Illinois, known for its strong liberal arts and teacher education programs.
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University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky is a major public research university in Lexington, Kentucky, known for its strong academic programs and powerhouse Wildcats basketball tradition.
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University of Missouri
The University of Missouri is a major public research university in Columbia, Missouri, known for its flagship "Mizzou" campus, strong journalism and agriculture programs, and membership in the SEC athletic conference.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Indiana State University Description of subject: Indiana State University is a public university in Terre Haute, Indiana, widely recognized for its Sycamores basketball program that starred Hall of Famer Larry Bird.
Referenced by (54)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Indiana State Sycamores football
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Indiana State Normal School
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Indiana State Teachers College
this entity surface form:
Indiana State College
this entity surface form:
Indiana State University campus
this entity surface form:
Indiana State University athletic teams
this entity surface form:
Indiana State Teachers College
this entity surface form:
Indiana State University campus
this entity surface form:
Indiana State University campus
subject surface form:
College of Technology (Indiana State University)
subject surface form:
College of Technology (Indiana State University)
this entity surface form:
Indiana State University system
this entity surface form:
Indiana State University campus
subject surface form:
College of Arts and Sciences (Indiana State University)
subject surface form:
College of Arts and Sciences (Indiana State University)