Madison College
E781667
Madison College was the former name of James Madison University, a public research university in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madison College canonical | 2 |
| Madison College (Pennsylvania) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9172981 — 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: Madison College Context triple: [James Madison University, formerName, Madison College]
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A.
Kellogg Community College
Kellogg Community College is a public community college in Michigan known for offering associate degrees, certificates, and workforce training programs to students in the Battle Creek area and surrounding communities.
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B.
Crouse College
Crouse College is a historic, landmark building on the Syracuse University campus known for its distinctive Romanesque architecture and use as a center for the arts.
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C.
Madison Business College
Madison Business College was a former private business school in Madison, Wisconsin, known for training students in practical commercial and secretarial skills.
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D.
Mott Community College
Mott Community College is a public community college in Flint, Michigan, offering a range of associate degrees, certificates, and workforce training programs.
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E.
Keuka College
Keuka College is a private liberal arts college in New York State known for its experiential learning programs and scenic lakeside campus in the Finger Lakes region.
- 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: Madison College Target entity description: Madison College was the former name of James Madison University, a public research university in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
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A.
Kellogg Community College
Kellogg Community College is a public community college in Michigan known for offering associate degrees, certificates, and workforce training programs to students in the Battle Creek area and surrounding communities.
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B.
Crouse College
Crouse College is a historic, landmark building on the Syracuse University campus known for its distinctive Romanesque architecture and use as a center for the arts.
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C.
Madison Business College
Madison Business College was a former private business school in Madison, Wisconsin, known for training students in practical commercial and secretarial skills.
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D.
Mott Community College
Mott Community College is a public community college in Flint, Michigan, offering a range of associate degrees, certificates, and workforce training programs.
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E.
Keuka College
Keuka College is a private liberal arts college in New York State known for its experiential learning programs and scenic lakeside campus in the Finger Lakes region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educational institution
ⓘ
public university ⓘ |
| affiliation | state of Virginia ⓘ |
| campusType | college campus ⓘ |
| city |
Harrisonburg
ⓘ
linked to:
Harrisonburg, Virginia
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countrySubdivision | Commonwealth of Virginia ⓘ |
| educationLevel | tertiary education ⓘ |
| formerDesignation | Madison College ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | James Madison University ⓘ |
| governance | publicly governed ⓘ |
| hasType | public research university ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Harrisonburg, Virginia
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| namedAfter | James Madison ⓘ |
| offers |
graduate programs
ⓘ
undergraduate programs ⓘ |
| predecessorOf | James Madison University ⓘ |
| publicInstitution | true ⓘ |
| region | Shenandoah Valley ⓘ |
| researchActivity | conducts academic research ⓘ |
| sector | public higher education ⓘ |
| state | Virginia ⓘ |
| successorInstitution | James Madison University ⓘ |
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: Madison College Description of subject: Madison College was the former name of James Madison University, a public research university in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.