McKelvey Engineering
E259216
McKelvey Engineering is the engineering school of Washington University in St. Louis, known for its research and education in fields such as biomedical, mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McKelvey Engineering canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2341268 — 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: McKelvey Engineering Context triple: [McKelvey School of Engineering, abbreviation, McKelvey Engineering]
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A.
Osborn Engineering Company
Osborn Engineering Company was an American engineering and architectural firm known for designing major sports stadiums and other large-scale structures in the early 20th century.
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B.
Jacobs Engineering Group
Jacobs Engineering Group is a global professional services firm specializing in engineering, design, and construction management across infrastructure, aerospace, environmental, and industrial sectors.
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C.
Black & Veatch
Black & Veatch is a global engineering, consulting, and construction company specializing in infrastructure development in sectors such as energy, water, and telecommunications.
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D.
Rockwell Group
Rockwell Group is a renowned New York–based architecture and design firm known for its innovative, experience-driven projects across hospitality, entertainment, and cultural spaces worldwide.
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E.
Walter P Moore
Walter P Moore is a global engineering firm known for its expertise in structural engineering and innovative design solutions for major sports venues and other complex structures.
- 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: McKelvey Engineering Target entity description: McKelvey Engineering is the engineering school of Washington University in St. Louis, known for its research and education in fields such as biomedical, mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering.
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A.
Osborn Engineering Company
Osborn Engineering Company was an American engineering and architectural firm known for designing major sports stadiums and other large-scale structures in the early 20th century.
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B.
Jacobs Engineering Group
Jacobs Engineering Group is a global professional services firm specializing in engineering, design, and construction management across infrastructure, aerospace, environmental, and industrial sectors.
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C.
Black & Veatch
Black & Veatch is a global engineering, consulting, and construction company specializing in infrastructure development in sectors such as energy, water, and telecommunications.
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D.
Rockwell Group
Rockwell Group is a renowned New York–based architecture and design firm known for its innovative, experience-driven projects across hospitality, entertainment, and cultural spaces worldwide.
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E.
Walter P Moore
Walter P Moore is a global engineering firm known for its expertise in structural engineering and innovative design solutions for major sports venues and other complex structures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic division
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engineering school ⓘ |
| academicAffiliation |
Association of American Universities
ⓘ
surface form:
Association of American Universities (through Washington University in St. Louis)
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| affiliation | private university ⓘ |
| campus | Danforth Campus ⓘ |
| city |
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
St. Louis
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| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fieldOfStudy |
aerospace engineering
ⓘ
biomedical engineering ⓘ computer engineering ⓘ computer science ⓘ data science ⓘ electrical engineering ⓘ engineering ⓘ materials science ⓘ mechanical engineering ⓘ systems engineering ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
engineering education
ⓘ
interdisciplinary collaboration ⓘ research ⓘ |
| hasDepartment |
Department of Biomedical Engineering
ⓘ
Department of Computer Science & Engineering ⓘ Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering ⓘ Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science ⓘ
surface form:
Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
|
| knownFor |
biomedical engineering research
ⓘ
collaboration with Washington University School of Medicine ⓘ computer science education ⓘ electrical and systems engineering research ⓘ interdisciplinary engineering programs ⓘ mechanical engineering research ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| name |
McKelvey School of Engineering
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surface form:
James McKelvey School of Engineering
|
| namedAfter | James McKelvey Sr. ⓘ |
| offersProgramType |
doctoral programs
ⓘ
graduate programs ⓘ undergraduate programs ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Washington University in St. Louis ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | nonsectarian ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
| shortName |
McKelvey Engineering
self-link
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McKelvey School of Engineering ⓘ |
| state | Missouri ⓘ |
| website | https://engineering.wustl.edu/ ⓘ |
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: McKelvey Engineering Description of subject: McKelvey Engineering is the engineering school of Washington University in St. Louis, known for its research and education in fields such as biomedical, mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.