Pasadena Junior College
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Pasadena Junior College was a public two-year college in Pasadena, California, known for its strong athletic programs and as an early alma mater of Jackie Robinson before he transferred to UCLA.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pasadena Junior College canonical | 4 |
| Pasadena City College | 1 |
| Pasadena Junior College football team | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1369937 — 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: Pasadena Junior College Context triple: [Jackie Robinson, educatedAt, Pasadena Junior College]
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A.
De Anza College
De Anza College is a community college in Cupertino, California, known for its strong academic programs and proximity to Silicon Valley.
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B.
Los Angeles City College
Los Angeles City College is a public community college in Los Angeles known for its diverse student body and wide range of academic and vocational programs.
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C.
Santa Monica College
Santa Monica College is a public community college in Santa Monica, California, known for its strong transfer programs to four-year universities and diverse academic offerings.
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D.
Los Angeles Harbor College
Los Angeles Harbor College is a public community college in Wilmington, California, serving the Los Angeles Harbor area with two-year academic and vocational programs.
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E.
California State University, Northridge
California State University, Northridge is a large public university in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley known for its diverse student body and wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs.
- 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: Pasadena Junior College Target entity description: Pasadena Junior College was a public two-year college in Pasadena, California, known for its strong athletic programs and as an early alma mater of Jackie Robinson before he transferred to UCLA.
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A.
De Anza College
De Anza College is a community college in Cupertino, California, known for its strong academic programs and proximity to Silicon Valley.
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B.
Los Angeles City College
Los Angeles City College is a public community college in Los Angeles known for its diverse student body and wide range of academic and vocational programs.
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C.
Santa Monica College
Santa Monica College is a public community college in Santa Monica, California, known for its strong transfer programs to four-year universities and diverse academic offerings.
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D.
Los Angeles Harbor College
Los Angeles Harbor College is a public community college in Wilmington, California, serving the Los Angeles Harbor area with two-year academic and vocational programs.
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E.
California State University, Northridge
California State University, Northridge is a large public university in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley known for its diverse student body and wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
community college
ⓘ
public college ⓘ |
| almaMaterOf | Jackie Robinson ⓘ |
| attended | Pasadena Junior College self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| followedBy | Pasadena City College ⓘ |
| hasEducationLevel | two-year college ⓘ |
| hasNotableAlumnus |
Jackie Robinson
ⓘ
Other future University of California students ⓘ |
| hasType | junior college ⓘ |
| knownFor | strong athletic programs ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Pasadena ⓘ
surface form:
Pasadena, California
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| offers |
intercollegiate athletics
ⓘ
lower-division college coursework ⓘ transfer preparation programs ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Pasadena Unified School District ⓘ |
| partOf |
California community college tradition
ⓘ
Pasadena public education system ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Pasadena Junior College baseball team
ⓘ
Pasadena Junior College basketball team ⓘ Pasadena Junior College self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Pasadena Junior College football team
|
| ranFor | Pasadena Junior College track team ⓘ |
| replaced | Pasadena Junior College self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| sector | public higher education ⓘ |
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: Pasadena Junior College Description of subject: Pasadena Junior College was a public two-year college in Pasadena, California, known for its strong athletic programs and as an early alma mater of Jackie Robinson before he transferred to UCLA.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Pasadena City College
subject surface form:
Jackie Robinson
subject surface form:
Jackie Robinson
this entity surface form:
Pasadena Junior College football team
subject surface form:
Pasadena City College