Lent term
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Lent term is one of the main academic teaching terms at the University of Cambridge, typically running during the winter months after the Christmas vacation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lent term canonical | 2 |
| Cambridge term system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10350927 — 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: Lent term Context triple: [Faculty of Architecture and History of Art, University of Cambridge, usesAcademicTerm, Lent term]
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A.
Hilary term
Hilary term is one of the academic terms at the University of Oxford, running during the winter months and encompassing much of the university’s rowing and other sporting season.
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B.
Michaelmas Term
Michaelmas Term is a Jacobean city comedy play by Thomas Middleton that satirizes London’s legal and mercantile corruption.
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C.
January term (J-Term)
January term (J-Term) is a short, intensive academic session held in January that allows students to focus on a single course, project, or experiential learning opportunity.
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D.
Summer Lent
Summer Lent is a period of fasting and spiritual preparation in the Eastern Orthodox Church leading up to the Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God in mid-August.
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E.
Michaelmas
Michaelmas is a Christian feast day celebrated on September 29 in honor of the Archangel Michael and, in some traditions, the other archangels, historically marking an important quarter day in the Western calendar.
- 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: Lent term Target entity description: Lent term is one of the main academic teaching terms at the University of Cambridge, typically running during the winter months after the Christmas vacation.
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A.
Hilary term
Hilary term is one of the academic terms at the University of Oxford, running during the winter months and encompassing much of the university’s rowing and other sporting season.
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B.
Michaelmas Term
Michaelmas Term is a Jacobean city comedy play by Thomas Middleton that satirizes London’s legal and mercantile corruption.
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C.
January term (J-Term)
January term (J-Term) is a short, intensive academic session held in January that allows students to focus on a single course, project, or experiential learning opportunity.
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D.
Summer Lent
Summer Lent is a period of fasting and spiritual preparation in the Eastern Orthodox Church leading up to the Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God in mid-August.
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E.
Michaelmas
Michaelmas is a Christian feast day celebrated on September 29 in honor of the Archangel Michael and, in some traditions, the other archangels, historically marking an important quarter day in the Western calendar.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
University of Cambridge term
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academic term ⓘ teaching term ⓘ |
| academicLevel | higher education ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
postgraduate students at the University of Cambridge
ⓘ
undergraduate students at the University of Cambridge ⓘ |
| calendarSystem |
Cambridge term system
ⓘ
linked to:
Lent term
|
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| follows | Michaelmas term ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
classes
ⓘ
examinable coursework deadlines ⓘ lectures ⓘ supervisions ⓘ teaching weeks ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | Lent in the Christian liturgical calendar ⓘ |
| hasType | full-time study period ⓘ |
| isFollowedByVacation | Easter vacation ⓘ |
| isUsedIn |
college term date notices at the University of Cambridge
ⓘ
official University of Cambridge calendars ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| partOf | academic year at the University of Cambridge ⓘ |
| precedes | Easter term ⓘ |
| regulates |
college-based activities at the University of Cambridge
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residence requirements for students at the University of Cambridge ⓘ teaching timetable at the University of Cambridge ⓘ |
| season | winter ⓘ |
| startsAfter | Christmas vacation ⓘ |
| typicalEndMonth | March ⓘ |
| typicalStartMonth | January ⓘ |
| usedBy |
University of Cambridge
ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridge 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: Lent term Description of subject: Lent term is one of the main academic teaching terms at the University of Cambridge, typically running during the winter months after the Christmas vacation.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lent term