St. Thomas College
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St. Thomas College was the earlier name of what is now the University of Scranton, a private Jesuit university in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| St. Thomas College canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10774561 — 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: St. Thomas College Context triple: [University of Scranton, formerName, St. Thomas College]
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A.
St. Thomas College
St. Thomas College is an educational institution that counts American photographer John Vachon among its alumni.
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B.
Madras Christian College
Madras Christian College is a prestigious liberal arts and sciences institution in Chennai, India, known for its historic campus and influential role in Indian higher education.
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St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli
St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli is a prominent Jesuit institution of higher education in Tamil Nadu, India, known for its strong science and arts programs and for having educated former President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
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D.
Presidency College, Madras
Presidency College, Madras is one of India’s oldest and most prestigious higher education institutions, renowned for its strong programs in science and the humanities and for producing many distinguished alumni.
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E.
Pachaiyappa’s College
Pachaiyappa’s College is a historic arts and science institution in Chennai, India, known for educating notable figures including mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
- 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: St. Thomas College Target entity description: St. Thomas College was the earlier name of what is now the University of Scranton, a private Jesuit university in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
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A.
St. Thomas College
St. Thomas College is an educational institution that counts American photographer John Vachon among its alumni.
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B.
Madras Christian College
Madras Christian College is a prestigious liberal arts and sciences institution in Chennai, India, known for its historic campus and influential role in Indian higher education.
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C.
St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli
St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli is a prominent Jesuit institution of higher education in Tamil Nadu, India, known for its strong science and arts programs and for having educated former President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
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D.
Presidency College, Madras
Presidency College, Madras is one of India’s oldest and most prestigious higher education institutions, renowned for its strong programs in science and the humanities and for producing many distinguished alumni.
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E.
Pachaiyappa’s College
Pachaiyappa’s College is a historic arts and science institution in Chennai, India, known for educating notable figures including mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educational institution
ⓘ
historical name of university ⓘ |
| associatedCity | Scranton ⓘ |
| campusSetting | urban ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| educationalLevel | tertiary education ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | University of Scranton ⓘ |
| hasCampus |
Scranton campus
ⓘ
linked to:
Penn State Scranton
|
| hasMottoLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| hasReligiousTradition | Jesuit education ⓘ |
| hasType | private college ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Catholic higher education in the United States ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pennsylvania
ⓘ
Scranton ⓘ Scranton, Pennsylvania ⓘ
linked to:
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States
|
| namedAfter | Saint Thomas ⓘ |
| offersProgramType |
graduate education
ⓘ
undergraduate education ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Society of Jesus ⓘ |
| regionServed | Northeastern Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Catholic Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
Jesuit ⓘ |
| successor | University of Scranton ⓘ |
| transitionedTo | University status as University of Scranton ⓘ |
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: St. Thomas College Description of subject: St. Thomas College was the earlier name of what is now the University of Scranton, a private Jesuit university in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.