Harvard College class of 1907
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The Harvard College class of 1907 is a cohort of Harvard undergraduates from the early 20th century that notably included bibliophile and Titanic victim Harry Elkins Widener among its members.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harvard College class of 1907 canonical | 2 |
| Harvard College Class of 1907 alumni | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10464463 — 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: Harvard College class of 1907 Context triple: [Harry Elkins Widener, memberOf, Harvard College class of 1907]
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A.
Harvard
Harvard is a small city in McHenry County, Illinois, known as the northwestern terminus of Chicago’s Metra commuter rail service.
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B.
Harvard Crimson
Harvard Crimson is the collective name for Harvard University's varsity athletic teams, which compete in NCAA Division I as part of the Ivy League.
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C.
Harvard University
Harvard University is a prestigious private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, renowned for its academic excellence, influential alumni, and historic leadership in higher education.
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D.
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is Harvard University's primary graduate school for advanced study and research in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
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E.
Harvard School for Boys
Harvard School for Boys was a private preparatory school in New York City known for educating students from prominent families, including future actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
- 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: Harvard College class of 1907 Target entity description: The Harvard College class of 1907 is a cohort of Harvard undergraduates from the early 20th century that notably included bibliophile and Titanic victim Harry Elkins Widener among its members.
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A.
Harvard
Harvard is a small city in McHenry County, Illinois, known as the northwestern terminus of Chicago’s Metra commuter rail service.
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B.
Harvard Crimson
Harvard Crimson is the collective name for Harvard University's varsity athletic teams, which compete in NCAA Division I as part of the Ivy League.
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C.
Harvard University
Harvard University is a prestigious private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, renowned for its academic excellence, influential alumni, and historic leadership in higher education.
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Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is Harvard University's primary graduate school for advanced study and research in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
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E.
Harvard School for Boys
Harvard School for Boys was a private preparatory school in New York City known for educating students from prominent families, including future actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Harvard College class
ⓘ
university graduating class ⓘ |
| academicDegreeConferred |
Bachelor of Arts
ⓘ
Bachelor of Science ⓘ |
| affiliation | Harvard University ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Harvard alumni fundraising
ⓘ
Harvard alumni reunions ⓘ |
| campus | Harvard Yard ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard College
ⓘ
linked to:
Harvard University
|
| educationSystem | American higher education system ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | undergraduate liberal arts and sciences ⓘ |
| graduationYear | 1907 ⓘ |
| hasAlumni | Harry Elkins Widener ⓘ |
| hasAlumniAssociation |
Harvard College Class of 1907 alumni
ⓘ
linked to:
Harvard College class of 1907
|
| hasCohortCharacteristic | male-only undergraduate class ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalContext | pre-World War I era ⓘ |
| hasMemberOccupation |
academics
ⓘ
businessmen ⓘ lawyers ⓘ public officials ⓘ |
| hasNotableEvent | graduation exercises of 1907 ⓘ |
| inception | 1903 ⓘ |
| institutionType | private university undergraduate program ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| member | Harry Elkins Widener ⓘ |
| notableMember | Harry Elkins Widener ⓘ |
| partOf |
Harvard College
ⓘ
linked to:
Harvard University
|
| timePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
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: Harvard College class of 1907 Description of subject: The Harvard College class of 1907 is a cohort of Harvard undergraduates from the early 20th century that notably included bibliophile and Titanic victim Harry Elkins Widener among its members.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Harvard College class of 1907
subject linked to:
Titanic victim Harry Elkins Widener