University of Wisconsin–Madison
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space-grant university
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a major public research university in Madison, Wisconsin, renowned for its strong academic programs, extensive research output, and flagship status within the University of Wisconsin System.
All labels observed (18)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3537 — 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: University of Wisconsin–Madison Context triple: [Association of American Universities, hasMember, University of Wisconsin–Madison]
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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a major American public research university known for its strong engineering, computer science, and information science programs.
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B.
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a major public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, renowned for its strong academic programs, extensive research output, and prominent athletic tradition.
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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago renowned for its rigorous academics, influential scholarship across disciplines, and significant contributions to economics, law, and the social sciences.
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Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university in St. Louis, Missouri, known for its strong programs in medicine, engineering, and the arts and sciences.
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E.
Carleton College
Carleton College is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, known for its rigorous academics, close-knit residential community, and strong emphasis on undergraduate education.
- 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: University of Wisconsin–Madison Target entity description: The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a major public research university in Madison, Wisconsin, renowned for its strong academic programs, extensive research output, and flagship status within the University of Wisconsin System.
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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a major American public research university known for its strong engineering, computer science, and information science programs.
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B.
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a major public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, renowned for its strong academic programs, extensive research output, and prominent athletic tradition.
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C.
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago renowned for its rigorous academics, influential scholarship across disciplines, and significant contributions to economics, law, and the social sciences.
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Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university in St. Louis, Missouri, known for its strong programs in medicine, engineering, and the arts and sciences.
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Carleton College
Carleton College is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, known for its rigorous academics, close-knit residential community, and strong emphasis on undergraduate education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (67)
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: University of Wisconsin–Madison Description of subject: The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a major public research university in Madison, Wisconsin, renowned for its strong academic programs, extensive research output, and flagship status within the University of Wisconsin System.
Referenced by (533)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Robert M. La Follette
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Carl Djerassi
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Tommy Thompson
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Stewart C. Myers
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Herbert Stothart
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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
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Edwin E. Witte
subject surface form:
James J. Mulva