University of Costa Rica

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The University of Costa Rica is the country’s oldest and most prestigious public university, recognized as a leading center for higher education and research in Central America.

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Label Occurrences
Universidad de Costa Rica 1
University of Costa Rica canonical 1

Statements (54)

Predicate Object
instanceOf public university
research university
abbreviation UCR
affiliation Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo
surface form: Asociación de Universidades de América Latina y el Caribe

Consejo Nacional de Rectores de Costa Rica
Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo
surface form: Union of Universities of Latin America and the Caribbean
campusType urban
country Costa Rica
founded 1940
foundingDate 1940-08-26
governance autonomous public institution
governingBody University Council of the University of Costa Rica
hasCampus Atlántico Campus
Guanacaste Campus
Limón Campus
Occidental Campus
Pacífico Campus
Rodrigo Facio Campus
Tacares Campus
hasFaculty Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Letters
Faculty of Economic Sciences
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Social Sciences
hasNotableAlumni Laura Chinchilla Miranda
Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera
Óscar Arias Sánchez
hasResearchUnit Centro de Investigaciones Geofísicas
Centro de Investigación en Biología Celular y Molecular
Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología
Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud
headLabel Rector
isMostPrestigiousUniversityIn Costa Rica
isOldestUniversityIn Costa Rica
languageOfNativeName Spanish
locatedIn San José, Costa Rica
San Pedro, Montes de Oca, Costa Rica
motto Lucem Aspicio
mottoLanguage Latin
mottoTranslation I seek the light
nativeName University of Costa Rica self-linksurface differs
surface form: Universidad de Costa Rica
offersProgramType doctoral programs
graduate programs
undergraduate programs
precededBy University of Santo Tomas
surface form: University of Santo Tomás
recognizedAs leading center for higher education in Central America
leading research institution in Central America
regionServed Central America
sector higher education
type public
website https://www.ucr.ac.cr/

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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
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- 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.
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Subject: University of Costa Rica
Description of subject: The University of Costa Rica is the country’s oldest and most prestigious public university, recognized as a leading center for higher education and research in Central America.

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

San José hasUniversity University of Costa Rica
University of Costa Rica nativeName University of Costa Rica self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Universidad de Costa Rica