McKendree College
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McKendree College is a historic private liberal arts institution in Lebanon, Illinois, recognized as the oldest college in the state.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| McKendree University | 5 |
| McKendree College canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7407201 — 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: McKendree College Context triple: [Charles S. Deneen, educatedAt, McKendree College]
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A.
Knox College
Knox College is a historic theological college and residence affiliated with the University of Toronto, located on its St. George campus.
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Knox College
Knox College is a private liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, known for its historic commitment to abolitionism and progressive education.
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C.
Roosevelt University
Roosevelt University is a private university in Chicago, Illinois, known for its commitment to social justice and its main campus in the city's downtown Loop district.
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Eureka College
Eureka College is a small private liberal arts college in Eureka, Illinois, known for its historic campus and as the alma mater of President Ronald Reagan.
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E.
Lombard College
Lombard College was a small liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, historically notable for its progressive education and as the alma mater of prominent geneticist Sewall Wright.
- 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: McKendree College Target entity description: McKendree College is a historic private liberal arts institution in Lebanon, Illinois, recognized as the oldest college in the state.
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A.
Knox College
Knox College is a historic theological college and residence affiliated with the University of Toronto, located on its St. George campus.
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B.
Knox College
Knox College is a private liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, known for its historic commitment to abolitionism and progressive education.
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C.
Roosevelt University
Roosevelt University is a private university in Chicago, Illinois, known for its commitment to social justice and its main campus in the city's downtown Loop district.
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D.
Eureka College
Eureka College is a small private liberal arts college in Eureka, Illinois, known for its historic campus and as the alma mater of President Ronald Reagan.
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E.
Lombard College
Lombard College was a small liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, historically notable for its progressive education and as the alma mater of prominent geneticist Sewall Wright.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: McKendree College Description of subject: McKendree College is a historic private liberal arts institution in Lebanon, Illinois, recognized as the oldest college in the state.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: McKendree College
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linked to: McKendree College
linked to: McKendree College
linked to: McKendree College