Birmingham-Southern College
E113361
Birmingham-Southern College is a private liberal arts college located in Birmingham, Alabama, known for its rigorous academics and small, residential campus environment.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Birmingham-Southern College canonical | 5 |
| Birmingham–Southern College | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T820680 — 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: Birmingham-Southern College Context triple: [Alabama, containsUniversity, Birmingham-Southern College]
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A.
Berea College
Berea College is a private liberal arts work college in Berea, Kentucky, known for offering tuition-free education to students, particularly from Appalachia and low-income backgrounds.
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B.
Samford University
Samford University is a private Christian university known for its strong liberal arts and professional programs, located in the Birmingham suburb of Homewood, Alabama.
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C.
Selma University
Selma University is a private historically Black Christian college in Selma, Alabama, known for its role in African American education and its ties to the Civil Rights Movement.
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D.
Blount College
Blount College was the original institution that evolved into what is now the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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E.
Huntingdon College
Huntingdon College is a private liberal arts college located in Montgomery, Alabama, known for its small-campus environment and Methodist affiliation.
- 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: Birmingham-Southern College Target entity description: Birmingham-Southern College is a private liberal arts college located in Birmingham, Alabama, known for its rigorous academics and small, residential campus environment.
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A.
Berea College
Berea College is a private liberal arts work college in Berea, Kentucky, known for offering tuition-free education to students, particularly from Appalachia and low-income backgrounds.
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B.
Samford University
Samford University is a private Christian university known for its strong liberal arts and professional programs, located in the Birmingham suburb of Homewood, Alabama.
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C.
Selma University
Selma University is a private historically Black Christian college in Selma, Alabama, known for its role in African American education and its ties to the Civil Rights Movement.
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D.
Blount College
Blount College was the original institution that evolved into what is now the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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E.
Huntingdon College
Huntingdon College is a private liberal arts college located in Montgomery, Alabama, known for its small-campus environment and Methodist affiliation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
higher education institution
ⓘ
private liberal arts college ⓘ |
| academicFocus | liberal arts ⓘ |
| campusSetting | urban ⓘ |
| campusType | residential campus ⓘ |
| city | Birmingham ⓘ |
| controlType | private ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| educationalLevel | undergraduate ⓘ |
| emphasis |
broad-based education
ⓘ
critical thinking ⓘ undergraduate teaching ⓘ |
| governance | board of trustees ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
residential community
ⓘ
selective admissions ⓘ small student body ⓘ |
| hasResidentialFacilities |
on-campus residence halls
ⓘ
student housing ⓘ |
| knownFor |
rigorous academics
ⓘ
small campus environment ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alabama
ⓘ
Birmingham, Alabama, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Birmingham, Alabama
|
| offersDegreeType | bachelor's degrees ⓘ |
| offersProgramType | liberal arts and sciences programs ⓘ |
| region | Southern United States ⓘ |
| sector |
nonprofit
ⓘ
private higher education ⓘ |
| state | Alabama ⓘ |
| typeOfInstitution | four-year 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: Birmingham-Southern College Description of subject: Birmingham-Southern College is a private liberal arts college located in Birmingham, Alabama, known for its rigorous academics and small, residential campus environment.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Luther L. Terry
subject surface form:
Birmingham, Alabama
this entity surface form:
Birmingham–Southern College
this entity surface form:
Birmingham–Southern College
this entity surface form:
Birmingham–Southern College
this entity surface form:
Birmingham–Southern College