University of Basel
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The University of Basel is a historic Swiss university, founded in 1460 and known as one of the oldest universities in Europe, with a strong tradition in humanities and sciences.
All labels observed (7)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T410532 — 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: University of Basel Context triple: [Huldrych Zwingli, education, University of Basel]
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University of Zurich
The University of Zurich is a major public research university in Switzerland renowned for its contributions to science and scholarship, including being one of the institutions where Albert Einstein taught.
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University of Bern
The University of Bern is a major public research university in Switzerland known for its strong programs across the humanities, sciences, and medicine.
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University of Fribourg
The University of Fribourg is a Swiss public university known for its strong bilingual (French and German) teaching and research across a wide range of disciplines.
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University of Neuchâtel
The University of Neuchâtel is a public Swiss university located in the French-speaking city of Neuchâtel, known for its research and teaching in fields such as law, economics, humanities, and natural sciences.
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University of Geneva
The University of Geneva is a major public research university in Switzerland known for its strong programs in international relations, law, and the sciences, and its close ties to numerous international organizations based in Geneva.
- 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: University of Basel Target entity description: The University of Basel is a historic Swiss university, founded in 1460 and known as one of the oldest universities in Europe, with a strong tradition in humanities and sciences.
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University of Zurich
The University of Zurich is a major public research university in Switzerland renowned for its contributions to science and scholarship, including being one of the institutions where Albert Einstein taught.
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University of Bern
The University of Bern is a major public research university in Switzerland known for its strong programs across the humanities, sciences, and medicine.
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University of Fribourg
The University of Fribourg is a Swiss public university known for its strong bilingual (French and German) teaching and research across a wide range of disciplines.
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University of Neuchâtel
The University of Neuchâtel is a public Swiss university located in the French-speaking city of Neuchâtel, known for its research and teaching in fields such as law, economics, humanities, and natural sciences.
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University of Geneva
The University of Geneva is a major public research university in Switzerland known for its strong programs in international relations, law, and the sciences, and its close ties to numerous international organizations based in Geneva.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (68)
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: University of Basel Description of subject: The University of Basel is a historic Swiss university, founded in 1460 and known as one of the oldest universities in Europe, with a strong tradition in humanities and sciences.
Referenced by (74)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Karl Barth
subject surface form:
Huldrych Zwingli
subject surface form:
Rolf Zinkernagel
subject surface form:
Kurt Wüthrich
subject surface form:
Faculty of Theology, University of Basel
subject surface form:
Faculty of Theology, University of Basel
this entity surface form:
University of Basel Rectorate
subject surface form:
Faculty of Theology, University of Basel
this entity surface form:
University of Basel city campus
subject surface form:
Faculty of Theology, University of Basel
subject surface form:
Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel
subject surface form:
Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel
this entity surface form:
University of Basel Senate
subject surface form:
Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel