San Diego State University
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San Diego State University is a large public research university in San Diego known for its diverse academic programs, strong research activity, and vibrant campus life in Southern California.
All labels observed (11)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T36212 — 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: San Diego State University Context triple: [Southern California, hasUniversity, San Diego State University]
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University of Arizona
The University of Arizona is a major public research university in Tucson, Arizona, known for its strong programs across the sciences, humanities, and professional fields.
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B.
San Jose State University
San Jose State University is a large public university in downtown San Jose known for its strong engineering, business, and professional programs and its role as a major feeder school for Silicon Valley.
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C.
University of California, Riverside
The University of California, Riverside is a public research university in Riverside, California, known for its diverse student body and strong programs in the sciences, engineering, and the humanities.
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D.
University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine is a public research university in Southern California known for its strong science and engineering programs, vibrant campus life, and status as a leading institution in the UC system.
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E.
University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara is a public research university known for its strong academic programs, coastal campus, and vibrant student life.
- 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: San Diego State University Target entity description: San Diego State University is a large public research university in San Diego known for its diverse academic programs, strong research activity, and vibrant campus life in Southern California.
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A.
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona is a major public research university in Tucson, Arizona, known for its strong programs across the sciences, humanities, and professional fields.
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B.
San Jose State University
San Jose State University is a large public university in downtown San Jose known for its strong engineering, business, and professional programs and its role as a major feeder school for Silicon Valley.
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C.
University of California, Riverside
The University of California, Riverside is a public research university in Riverside, California, known for its diverse student body and strong programs in the sciences, engineering, and the humanities.
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University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine is a public research university in Southern California known for its strong science and engineering programs, vibrant campus life, and status as a leading institution in the UC system.
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E.
University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara is a public research university known for its strong academic programs, coastal campus, and vibrant student life.
- 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: San Diego State University Description of subject: San Diego State University is a large public research university in San Diego known for its diverse academic programs, strong research activity, and vibrant campus life in Southern California.
Referenced by (126)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
San Diego State University campus
this entity surface form:
San Diego State College