J. Douglas Gay Jr. / Frances Carrick Thomas Library
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The J. Douglas Gay Jr. / Frances Carrick Thomas Library is the main academic library of Transylvania University, providing students and faculty with research resources, study spaces, and archival collections.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| J. Douglas Gay Jr. / Frances Carrick Thomas Library canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2265011 — 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: J. Douglas Gay Jr. / Frances Carrick Thomas Library Context triple: [Transylvania University, hasLibrary, J. Douglas Gay Jr. / Frances Carrick Thomas Library]
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A.
Douglas Library
Douglas Library is a major academic library at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, serving as a central resource for research and study across multiple disciplines.
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B.
Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons
The Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons is the main academic library and collaborative learning hub serving students and faculty at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.
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C.
John M. Pfau Library
John M. Pfau Library is the main academic library serving the students and faculty of California State University, San Bernardino.
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D.
Cecil H. Green Library
Cecil H. Green Library is the main research library at Stanford University, housing extensive collections across the humanities and social sciences.
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E.
John C. Hodges Library
John C. Hodges Library is the main academic library of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, serving as a central hub for research, study, and scholarly resources on campus.
- 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: J. Douglas Gay Jr. / Frances Carrick Thomas Library Target entity description: The J. Douglas Gay Jr. / Frances Carrick Thomas Library is the main academic library of Transylvania University, providing students and faculty with research resources, study spaces, and archival collections.
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A.
Douglas Library
Douglas Library is a major academic library at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, serving as a central resource for research and study across multiple disciplines.
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B.
Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons
The Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons is the main academic library and collaborative learning hub serving students and faculty at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.
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C.
John M. Pfau Library
John M. Pfau Library is the main academic library serving the students and faculty of California State University, San Bernardino.
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D.
Cecil H. Green Library
Cecil H. Green Library is the main research library at Stanford University, housing extensive collections across the humanities and social sciences.
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E.
John C. Hodges Library
John C. Hodges Library is the main academic library of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, serving as a central hub for research, study, and scholarly resources on campus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic library
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university library ⓘ |
| affiliation | Transylvania University ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| hasCollectionType |
archival materials
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electronic resources ⓘ print materials ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
group study spaces
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individual study spaces ⓘ study rooms ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
support academic research
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support teaching and learning ⓘ |
| languageOfService | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Lexington, Kentucky ⓘ |
| locatedInInstitution | Transylvania University ⓘ |
| mainLibraryOf | Transylvania University ⓘ |
| name | J. Douglas Gay Jr. / Frances Carrick Thomas Library self-link ⓘ |
| namedFor |
Frances Carrick Thomas
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J. Douglas Gay Jr. ⓘ |
| provides |
archival collections
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research resources ⓘ study spaces ⓘ |
| region | Kentucky ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
| serves |
faculty of Transylvania University
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students of Transylvania University ⓘ |
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: J. Douglas Gay Jr. / Frances Carrick Thomas Library Description of subject: The J. Douglas Gay Jr. / Frances Carrick Thomas Library is the main academic library of Transylvania University, providing students and faculty with research resources, study spaces, and archival collections.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
J. Douglas Gay Jr. / Frances Carrick Thomas Library
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name
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J. Douglas Gay Jr. / Frances Carrick Thomas Library
self-link
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