Northern Kentucky University
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Northern Kentucky University is a public university in Highland Heights, Kentucky, known for its regional focus and for having briefly enrolled actor George Clooney.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Northern Kentucky University canonical | 7 |
| NKU | 1 |
| Northern Kentucky State College | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T657051 — 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: Northern Kentucky University Context triple: [George Clooney, educatedAt, Northern Kentucky University]
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A.
Western Kentucky University
Western Kentucky University is a public university known for its hilltop campus, strong programs in education and journalism, and prominent Hilltoppers athletic teams.
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B.
Eastern Kentucky University
Eastern Kentucky University is a public university located in Richmond, Kentucky, known for its programs in education, criminal justice, and applied sciences.
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C.
Morehead State University
Morehead State University is a public university in Morehead, Kentucky, known for its regional academic programs and NCAA Division I athletics.
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D.
University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky is a major public research university in Lexington, Kentucky, known for its strong academic programs and powerhouse Wildcats basketball tradition.
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E.
University of Louisville
The University of Louisville is a public research university in Louisville, Kentucky, known for its strong academic programs and prominent NCAA Division I athletics.
- 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: Northern Kentucky University Target entity description: Northern Kentucky University is a public university in Highland Heights, Kentucky, known for its regional focus and for having briefly enrolled actor George Clooney.
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A.
Western Kentucky University
Western Kentucky University is a public university known for its hilltop campus, strong programs in education and journalism, and prominent Hilltoppers athletic teams.
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B.
Eastern Kentucky University
Eastern Kentucky University is a public university located in Richmond, Kentucky, known for its programs in education, criminal justice, and applied sciences.
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C.
Morehead State University
Morehead State University is a public university in Morehead, Kentucky, known for its regional academic programs and NCAA Division I athletics.
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D.
University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky is a major public research university in Lexington, Kentucky, known for its strong academic programs and powerhouse Wildcats basketball tradition.
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E.
University of Louisville
The University of Louisville is a public research university in Louisville, Kentucky, known for its strong academic programs and prominent NCAA Division I athletics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Northern Kentucky University Description of subject: Northern Kentucky University is a public university in Highland Heights, Kentucky, known for its regional focus and for having briefly enrolled actor George Clooney.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
NKU
this entity surface form:
Northern Kentucky State College