UW
E347088
UW is a common abbreviation for the University of Wisconsin, whose athletic teams are known as the Wisconsin Badgers.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| UW canonical | 4 |
| UWS | 1 |
| UW–Madison Writing Center | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3302666 — 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: UW Context triple: [Wisconsin Badgers football, shortName, UW]
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A.
UW
UW is a leading Canadian public research university known for its strong engineering, computer science, and co-operative education programs.
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B.
UW
UW is the commonly used abbreviation for the University of Warsaw, a major public research university in Poland’s capital city.
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C.
UAA
UAA is the stock ticker symbol for Under Armour, an American sportswear and athletic apparel company traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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D.
UO
UO is the IATA airline designator used by HK Express, a low-cost carrier based in Hong Kong.
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E.
University of Washington
The University of Washington is a major public research university in Seattle known for its strong programs in science, engineering, medicine, and public affairs.
- 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: UW Target entity description: UW is a common abbreviation for the University of Wisconsin, whose athletic teams are known as the Wisconsin Badgers.
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A.
UW
UW is a leading Canadian public research university known for its strong engineering, computer science, and co-operative education programs.
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B.
UW
UW is the commonly used abbreviation for the University of Warsaw, a major public research university in Poland’s capital city.
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C.
UAA
UAA is the stock ticker symbol for Under Armour, an American sportswear and athletic apparel company traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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D.
UO
UO is the IATA airline designator used by HK Express, a low-cost carrier based in Hong Kong.
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E.
University of Washington
The University of Washington is a major public research university in Seattle known for its strong programs in science, engineering, medicine, and public affairs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | abbreviation ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Wisconsin Badgers ⓘ |
| athleticConference | Big Ten Conference ⓘ |
| athleticNickname | Wisconsin Badgers ⓘ |
| campusCity |
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Madison, Wisconsin
|
| colors |
cardinal
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| commonlyUsedBy |
alumni
ⓘ
sports media ⓘ students ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| educationSector | public university ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
U-W
ⓘ
Wisco ⓘ |
| language | English abbreviation ⓘ |
| mascot | Bucky Badger ⓘ |
| refersTo |
University of Wisconsin System
ⓘ
University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| shortFormOf |
University of Wisconsin System
ⓘ
University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| sportLevel | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| standsFor |
University of Wisconsin System
ⓘ
surface form:
University of Wisconsin
|
| state | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| systemType | state university system ⓘ |
| usedInContextOf |
NCAA sports
ⓘ
college athletics ⓘ |
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: UW Description of subject: UW is a common abbreviation for the University of Wisconsin, whose athletic teams are known as the Wisconsin Badgers.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Wisconsin Badgers
this entity surface form:
UWS
this entity surface form:
UW–Madison Writing Center