Ricks College
E1025148
Ricks College was a private junior college affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that later became Brigham Young University–Idaho.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ricks College canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13174423 — 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: Ricks College Context triple: [Rexburg, Idaho, hasFormerName, Ricks College]
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A.
Brightwood College
Brightwood College was a now-defunct for-profit career college chain in the United States that offered vocational and technical programs across multiple campuses.
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B.
Porterville College
Porterville College is a public community college serving the Porterville, California area with two-year degree and certificate programs.
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C.
South Park Junior College
South Park Junior College was the original name of the institution that later became Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.
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D.
Jack H. Brown College
Jack H. Brown College is a business and public administration college at California State University, San Bernardino, offering undergraduate and graduate programs in fields such as management, accounting, marketing, and public administration.
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E.
Hesperian College
Hesperian College was the original 19th-century institution in Orange, California that later evolved into what is now Chapman University.
- 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: Ricks College Target entity description: Ricks College was a private junior college affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that later became Brigham Young University–Idaho.
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A.
Brightwood College
Brightwood College was a now-defunct for-profit career college chain in the United States that offered vocational and technical programs across multiple campuses.
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B.
Porterville College
Porterville College is a public community college serving the Porterville, California area with two-year degree and certificate programs.
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C.
South Park Junior College
South Park Junior College was the original name of the institution that later became Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.
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D.
Jack H. Brown College
Jack H. Brown College is a business and public administration college at California State University, San Bernardino, offering undergraduate and graduate programs in fields such as management, accounting, marketing, and public administration.
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E.
Hesperian College
Hesperian College was the original 19th-century institution in Orange, California that later evolved into what is now Chapman University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct educational institution
ⓘ
private junior college ⓘ religious college ⓘ two-year college ⓘ |
| affiliation | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| campusReligionFacilities |
LDS meetinghouses
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
LDS temple nearby in Rexburg (later constructed) ⓘ |
| campusType | rural campus ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| degreeTypeOffered | associate degrees ⓘ |
| educationalFocus |
general education
ⓘ
pre-professional programs ⓘ |
| educationalLevel | undergraduate ⓘ |
| followedBy | Brigham Young University–Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Brigham Young University–Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fundingType | private ⓘ |
| governedBy | Board of Trustees of the Church Educational System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMotto | Righteousness, Education, Service ⓘ |
| hasSuccessorInstitution | Brigham Young University–Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorCode | LDS Church educational honor code ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Rexburg, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Idaho
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Madison County, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Thomas E. Ricks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Church Educational System
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | LDS Church Educational System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessorOf | Brigham Young University–Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryServiceArea | Latter-day Saint students ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousRequirement | adherence to LDS standards of conduct ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Latter-day Saint NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortName | Ricks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studentBodyType | coeducational ⓘ |
| transitionedTo | four-year university status as Brigham Young University–Idaho ⓘ |
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: Ricks College Description of subject: Ricks College was a private junior college affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that later became Brigham Young University–Idaho.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.