University of Lausanne
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The University of Lausanne is a major public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland, known for its strengths in law, business, life sciences, and social sciences.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| University of Lausanne canonical | 50 |
| University of Lausanne campus | 4 |
| Académie de Lausanne | 2 |
| University of Lausanne rectorate | 2 |
| Université de Lausanne | 2 |
| HEC Lausanne | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T161456 — 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 Lausanne Context triple: [Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, educatedAt, University of Lausanne]
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University of Geneva
The University of Geneva is a major public research university in Switzerland known for its strong programs in international relations, law, and the sciences, and its close ties to numerous international organizations based in Geneva.
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University of Zurich
The University of Zurich is a major public research university in Switzerland renowned for its contributions to science and scholarship, including being one of the institutions where Albert Einstein taught.
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University of Strasbourg
The University of Strasbourg is a major French public research university known for its long academic tradition, multidisciplinary programs, and location in the historic city of Strasbourg near the German border.
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Sorbonne University
Sorbonne University is a major public research university in Paris renowned for its historic humanities, science, and medical faculties.
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Université Côte d’Azur
Université Côte d’Azur is a French public research university based in the French Riviera region, known for its interdisciplinary programs and strong emphasis on innovation and international collaboration.
- 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 Lausanne Target entity description: The University of Lausanne is a major public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland, known for its strengths in law, business, life sciences, and social sciences.
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A.
University of Geneva
The University of Geneva is a major public research university in Switzerland known for its strong programs in international relations, law, and the sciences, and its close ties to numerous international organizations based in Geneva.
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B.
University of Zurich
The University of Zurich is a major public research university in Switzerland renowned for its contributions to science and scholarship, including being one of the institutions where Albert Einstein taught.
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C.
University of Strasbourg
The University of Strasbourg is a major French public research university known for its long academic tradition, multidisciplinary programs, and location in the historic city of Strasbourg near the German border.
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D.
Sorbonne University
Sorbonne University is a major public research university in Paris renowned for its historic humanities, science, and medical faculties.
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E.
Université Côte d’Azur
Université Côte d’Azur is a French public research university based in the French Riviera region, known for its interdisciplinary programs and strong emphasis on innovation and international collaboration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Lausanne Description of subject: The University of Lausanne is a major public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland, known for its strengths in law, business, life sciences, and social sciences.
Referenced by (61)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Académie de Lausanne
this entity surface form:
University of Lausanne campus