Boise State University
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Boise State University is a public research university best known for its blue turf football field and comprehensive academic programs in Idaho’s capital city.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Boise State University canonical | 26 |
| Boise State University campus | 3 |
| Boise State University Athletic Department | 2 |
| Boise State | 1 |
| Boise State College | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1179396 — 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: Boise State University Context triple: [Boise, Idaho, United States, hasUniversity, Boise State University]
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A.
University of Idaho
The University of Idaho is a public land-grant research university in Moscow, Idaho, known for its strong programs in agriculture, engineering, natural resources, and law, and for serving as the state's flagship institution.
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B.
Oregon State University
Oregon State University is a public research university in Corvallis, Oregon, known for its strong programs in engineering, forestry, and agricultural sciences.
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C.
University of Nevada, Reno
The University of Nevada, Reno is a public research university and the flagship institution of the Nevada System of Higher Education, located in Reno, Nevada.
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D.
University of Wyoming
The University of Wyoming is a public land-grant research university in Laramie, Wyoming, known for serving as the state’s flagship institution of higher education.
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E.
Boise State Broncos
The Boise State Broncos are the athletic teams of Boise State University, best known for their successful football program and iconic blue turf field.
- 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: Boise State University Target entity description: Boise State University is a public research university best known for its blue turf football field and comprehensive academic programs in Idaho’s capital city.
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A.
University of Idaho
The University of Idaho is a public land-grant research university in Moscow, Idaho, known for its strong programs in agriculture, engineering, natural resources, and law, and for serving as the state's flagship institution.
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B.
Oregon State University
Oregon State University is a public research university in Corvallis, Oregon, known for its strong programs in engineering, forestry, and agricultural sciences.
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C.
University of Nevada, Reno
The University of Nevada, Reno is a public research university and the flagship institution of the Nevada System of Higher Education, located in Reno, Nevada.
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D.
University of Wyoming
The University of Wyoming is a public land-grant research university in Laramie, Wyoming, known for serving as the state’s flagship institution of higher education.
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E.
Boise State Broncos
The Boise State Broncos are the athletic teams of Boise State University, best known for their successful football program and iconic blue turf field.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Boise State University Description of subject: Boise State University is a public research university best known for its blue turf football field and comprehensive academic programs in Idaho’s capital city.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Boise State University Athletic Department
this entity surface form:
Boise State College
this entity surface form:
Boise State
subject surface form:
Big Sky Conference
this entity surface form:
Boise State University campus
subject surface form:
Southern Idaho
subject surface form:
Michael Hoffman (director)
this entity surface form:
Boise State University campus
this entity surface form:
Boise State University campus
subject surface form:
Boise State Broncos
subject surface form:
Boise State Broncos
this entity surface form:
Boise State University Athletic Department
subject surface form:
Albertsons Stadium