Winston-Salem State University
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Winston-Salem State University is a public historically Black university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, known for its strong academic programs and notable alumni including Basketball Hall of Famer Earl Monroe.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Winston-Salem State University canonical | 13 |
| Winston-Salem Teachers College | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T885355 — 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: Winston-Salem State University Context triple: [Earl Monroe, collegeAttended, Winston-Salem State University]
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A.
North Carolina Central University
North Carolina Central University is a public historically Black university known for its strong liberal arts, law, and business programs.
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B.
Norfolk State University
Norfolk State University is a public historically Black university known for its academic programs and cultural impact in southeastern Virginia.
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North Carolina A&T State University
North Carolina A&T State University is a public, historically Black land-grant research university located in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Bethune–Cookman University
Bethune–Cookman University is a private historically Black university known for its strong liberal arts programs and legacy of civil rights activism.
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E.
Shaw University
Shaw University is a historically Black university in Raleigh, North Carolina, known as a significant center of the Civil Rights Movement and the birthplace of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
- 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: Winston-Salem State University Target entity description: Winston-Salem State University is a public historically Black university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, known for its strong academic programs and notable alumni including Basketball Hall of Famer Earl Monroe.
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A.
North Carolina Central University
North Carolina Central University is a public historically Black university known for its strong liberal arts, law, and business programs.
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B.
Norfolk State University
Norfolk State University is a public historically Black university known for its academic programs and cultural impact in southeastern Virginia.
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C.
North Carolina A&T State University
North Carolina A&T State University is a public, historically Black land-grant research university located in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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D.
Bethune–Cookman University
Bethune–Cookman University is a private historically Black university known for its strong liberal arts programs and legacy of civil rights activism.
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E.
Shaw University
Shaw University is a historically Black university in Raleigh, North Carolina, known as a significant center of the Civil Rights Movement and the birthplace of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
- 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: Winston-Salem State University Description of subject: Winston-Salem State University is a public historically Black university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, known for its strong academic programs and notable alumni including Basketball Hall of Famer Earl Monroe.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Earl Monroe
subject surface form:
Earl Monroe
subject surface form:
Earl Monroe
subject surface form:
Earl Monroe
Winston-Salem State University
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Winston-Salem State University
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this entity surface form:
Winston-Salem Teachers College
Office of the President of the University of North Carolina System
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Winston-Salem State University
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