Cerritos College
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Cerritos College is a public community college in Norwalk, California, offering a wide range of academic, vocational, and transfer programs for local and regional students.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cerritos College canonical | 2 |
| Cerritos College (nearby, serves Norwalk) | 1 |
| Cerritos College (serves Downey region) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11363076 — 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: Cerritos College Context triple: [Cerritos, hasHigherEducationInstitution, Cerritos College]
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A.
Mesa College
Mesa College was the former name of Colorado Mesa University, a public institution of higher education located in Grand Junction, Colorado.
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B.
Cañada College
Cañada College is a public community college located in San Mateo County, California, offering two-year degree and certificate programs.
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C.
Cuyamaca College
Cuyamaca College is a public community college in El Cajon, California, offering two-year degree, transfer, and career education programs.
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D.
Mt. San Antonio College
Mt. San Antonio College is a large public community college in Walnut, California, known for its comprehensive academic and vocational programs.
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E.
Los Medanos College
Los Medanos College is a public community college serving students in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.
- 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: Cerritos College Target entity description: Cerritos College is a public community college in Norwalk, California, offering a wide range of academic, vocational, and transfer programs for local and regional students.
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A.
Mesa College
Mesa College was the former name of Colorado Mesa University, a public institution of higher education located in Grand Junction, Colorado.
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B.
Cañada College
Cañada College is a public community college located in San Mateo County, California, offering two-year degree and certificate programs.
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C.
Cuyamaca College
Cuyamaca College is a public community college in El Cajon, California, offering two-year degree, transfer, and career education programs.
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D.
Mt. San Antonio College
Mt. San Antonio College is a large public community college in Walnut, California, known for its comprehensive academic and vocational programs.
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E.
Los Medanos College
Los Medanos College is a public community college serving students in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
higher education institution
ⓘ
public community college ⓘ two-year college ⓘ |
| academicFocus |
career and technical education
ⓘ
liberal arts and sciences ⓘ vocational training ⓘ |
| affiliation | California Community Colleges system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| campusType | suburban ⓘ |
| city | Norwalk, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| educationLevel | undergraduate ⓘ |
| fundingType | publicly funded ⓘ |
| governedBy | locally elected board of trustees ⓘ |
| governingBody | Cerritos Community College District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
commuter campus
ⓘ
open-access admissions ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
basic skills and remedial education
ⓘ
continuing education ⓘ technical training ⓘ transfer preparation to four-year universities ⓘ vocational education ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Los Angeles County
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles County, California
Norwalk, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mission |
to prepare students for transfer and careers
ⓘ
to provide accessible, affordable education ⓘ |
| offers |
adult education
ⓘ
associate degrees ⓘ career and technical education programs ⓘ certificate programs ⓘ general education courses ⓘ online courses ⓘ transfer programs ⓘ |
| partOf | California public postsecondary education system ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Orange County, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southeast Los Angeles County ⓘ |
| sector | public higher education ⓘ |
| serves |
local students
ⓘ
regional students ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| type | public ⓘ |
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: Cerritos College Description of subject: Cerritos College is a public community college in Norwalk, California, offering a wide range of academic, vocational, and transfer programs for local and regional students.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cerritos College (serves Downey region)
this entity surface form:
Cerritos College (nearby, serves Norwalk)