Duke
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Duke is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, renowned for its strong academic programs and competitive NCAA Division I athletics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Duke canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9650135 — 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: Duke Context triple: [Duke Blue Devils football team, shortName, Duke]
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Duke
Duke is the nickname of Duke Ellington, the influential American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader who became a central figure in 20th-century music.
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Duke
Duke is a central G.I. Joe team leader portrayed by Channing Tatum in the action film "G.I. Joe: Retaliation."
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Duke
Duke is a large, shaggy brown rescue dog who becomes one of the central comedic protagonists in the animated film "The Secret Life of Pets."
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Duke
Duke is a prominent American family name most famously associated with the wealthy industrialist and philanthropic Duke family of North Carolina.
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Duke
Duke is the elderly man in "The Notebook" who narrates the love story from a nursing home, later revealed to be an older Noah reading their shared history to Allie.
- 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: Duke Target entity description: Duke is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, renowned for its strong academic programs and competitive NCAA Division I athletics.
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Duke
Duke is the men's basketball team of Duke University, renowned as one of the most successful and storied programs in NCAA history.
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Duke
Duke is a prominent American family name most famously associated with the wealthy industrialist and philanthropic Duke family of North Carolina.
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Duke
Duke is the bulldog mascot representing York Community High School’s athletic teams and school spirit.
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Duke
Duke is a surname most prominently associated with David Duke, an American white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader.
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Duke
Duke is the nickname of Duke Ellington, the influential American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader who became a central figure in 20th-century music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educational institution
ⓘ
private research university ⓘ university ⓘ |
| athleticsAssociation | NCAA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| athleticsConference | Atlantic Coast Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| athleticsDivision | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| campusType | urban ⓘ |
| city | Durham, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colors |
Duke blue
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| endowmentCurrency | USD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerName |
Brown School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Normal College NERFINISHED ⓘ Trinity College NERFINISHED ⓘ Union Institute NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder | Methodist and Quaker families in Randolph County ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1838 ⓘ |
| hasChapel | Duke Chapel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCollege | Trinity College of Arts and Sciences NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGarden | Sarah P. Duke Gardens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHospital | Duke University Hospital NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLibrarySystem | Duke University Libraries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMedicalCenter | Duke University Medical Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSchool |
Duke Divinity School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Duke Kunshan University NERFINISHED ⓘ Duke University School of Law NERFINISHED ⓘ Duke University School of Medicine NERFINISHED ⓘ Fuqua School of Business NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicholas School of the Environment NERFINISHED ⓘ Pratt School of Engineering NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanford School of Public Policy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
business education
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competitive athletics ⓘ law and public policy programs ⓘ medical research ⓘ strong academic programs ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Durham, North Carolina ⓘ |
| mascot | Blue Devil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Association of American Universities
ⓘ
Atlantic Coast Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motto | Eruditio et Religio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mottoLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| namedAfter | James Buchanan Duke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
historically Methodist
ⓘ
historically Quaker ⓘ |
| renamedAs | Duke University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| renamedYear | 1924 ⓘ |
| researchActivityLevel | very high research activity ⓘ |
| shortName | Duke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport |
football
ⓘ
lacrosse ⓘ men's basketball ⓘ soccer ⓘ women's basketball ⓘ |
| state | North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamName | Duke Blue Devils NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| type | private ⓘ |
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: Duke Description of subject: Duke is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, renowned for its strong academic programs and competitive NCAA Division I athletics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.