Gettysburg College
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Gettysburg College is a private liberal arts college known for its historic campus near the Gettysburg Civil War battlefield and its strong undergraduate programs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gettysburg College canonical | 17 |
| Gettysburg College campus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T170143 — 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: Gettysburg College Context triple: [Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, hasInstitution, Gettysburg College]
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A.
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College is a highly selective private liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, known for its rigorous academics, Quaker heritage, and strong emphasis on social responsibility.
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B.
Washington College
Washington College is a historic liberal arts college in Chestertown, Maryland, known as the first college chartered in the newly independent United States and for its association with George Washington.
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C.
Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)
Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) is a historically Black public university and one of the United States’ oldest HBCUs, known for educating prominent African American leaders and professionals.
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D.
Pennsylvania Military College
Pennsylvania Military College was a historic U.S. military preparatory and higher-education institution, later reorganized as Widener University.
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E.
Amherst College
Amherst College is a highly selective private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, known for its rigorous academics and open curriculum.
- 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: Gettysburg College Target entity description: Gettysburg College is a private liberal arts college known for its historic campus near the Gettysburg Civil War battlefield and its strong undergraduate programs.
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A.
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College is a highly selective private liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, known for its rigorous academics, Quaker heritage, and strong emphasis on social responsibility.
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B.
Washington College
Washington College is a historic liberal arts college in Chestertown, Maryland, known as the first college chartered in the newly independent United States and for its association with George Washington.
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C.
Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)
Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) is a historically Black public university and one of the United States’ oldest HBCUs, known for educating prominent African American leaders and professionals.
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D.
Pennsylvania Military College
Pennsylvania Military College was a historic U.S. military preparatory and higher-education institution, later reorganized as Widener University.
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E.
Amherst College
Amherst College is a highly selective private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, known for its rigorous academics and open curriculum.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
higher education institution
ⓘ
private liberal arts college ⓘ |
| academicFocus | liberal arts ⓘ |
| accreditation | Middle States Commission on Higher Education ⓘ |
| athleticsAssociation | NCAA Division III ⓘ |
| athleticsNickname |
Capital Bullets
ⓘ
surface form:
Bullets
|
| campusSetting | small town ⓘ |
| controlType | private ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| educationLevel | undergraduate-focused ⓘ |
| emphasis |
civic engagement
ⓘ
experiential learning ⓘ undergraduate research ⓘ |
| formerName | Pennsylvania College ⓘ |
| founded | 1832 ⓘ |
| governanceType | nonprofit ⓘ |
| governedBy | board of trustees ⓘ |
| hasCalendarSystem | semester system ⓘ |
| hasCampusSize | approximately 200 acres ⓘ |
| hasHousing |
college-owned housing
ⓘ
on-campus residence halls ⓘ |
| hasLibrary | Musselman Library ⓘ |
| hasMotto | Do Great Work ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
close ties to Civil War history
ⓘ
traditional residential campus ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryMission | undergraduate liberal arts education ⓘ |
| hasStrongProgramLevel | undergraduate programs ⓘ |
| hasStudentBodyType | primarily full-time students ⓘ |
| knownFor |
historic campus
ⓘ
proximity to Civil War battlefield ⓘ strong undergraduate education ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Adams County, Pennsylvania
ⓘ
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| memberOf | Centennial Conference ⓘ |
| near |
Gettysburg National Military Park
ⓘ
surface form:
Gettysburg Civil War battlefield
Gettysburg National Military Park ⓘ |
| offersDegree | bachelor's degree ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
arts
ⓘ
humanities ⓘ natural sciences ⓘ social sciences ⓘ |
| region |
Mid-Atlantic states
ⓘ
surface form:
Mid-Atlantic United States
|
| religiousAffiliation | historically Lutheran ⓘ |
| typeOfInstitution | residential college ⓘ |
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: Gettysburg College Description of subject: Gettysburg College is a private liberal arts college known for its historic campus near the Gettysburg Civil War battlefield and its strong undergraduate programs.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
subject surface form:
John Michael Bishop
this entity surface form:
Gettysburg College campus