University of Bordeaux
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The University of Bordeaux is a major French public research university historically notable as a pioneering center for sociology, where Émile Durkheim held one of the first academic chairs in the discipline.
All labels observed (7)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2096255 — 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 Bordeaux Context triple: [Émile Durkheim, employer, University of Bordeaux]
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University of Toulouse
The University of Toulouse is a historic French higher education and research institution located in the city of Toulouse, known for its strong programs in science, engineering, and the humanities.
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University of Nantes
The University of Nantes is a major French public university located in the city of Nantes, offering a wide range of academic programs and research activities across multiple disciplines.
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University of Clermont-Ferrand
The University of Clermont-Ferrand was a French higher education institution in Clermont-Ferrand known for its role in mid-20th-century academic life and for employing notable intellectuals such as Michel Foucault.
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University of Orléans
The University of Orléans is a historic French university, renowned as a major Renaissance center for legal and humanist studies that attracted many prominent scholars and reformers.
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University of Montpellier
The University of Montpellier is one of the oldest universities in the world, a major French public research institution renowned for its strengths in medicine, science, and law.
- 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 Bordeaux Target entity description: The University of Bordeaux is a major French public research university historically notable as a pioneering center for sociology, where Émile Durkheim held one of the first academic chairs in the discipline.
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University of Toulouse
The University of Toulouse is a historic French higher education and research institution located in the city of Toulouse, known for its strong programs in science, engineering, and the humanities.
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B.
University of Nantes
The University of Nantes is a major French public university located in the city of Nantes, offering a wide range of academic programs and research activities across multiple disciplines.
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University of Clermont-Ferrand
The University of Clermont-Ferrand was a French higher education institution in Clermont-Ferrand known for its role in mid-20th-century academic life and for employing notable intellectuals such as Michel Foucault.
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University of Orléans
The University of Orléans is a historic French university, renowned as a major Renaissance center for legal and humanist studies that attracted many prominent scholars and reformers.
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University of Montpellier
The University of Montpellier is one of the oldest universities in the world, a major French public research institution renowned for its strengths in medicine, science, and law.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
higher education institution
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public research university ⓘ university ⓘ |
| awards |
bachelor degrees
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doctoral degrees ⓘ master degrees ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| formedByMergerOf |
University of Bordeaux
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
University Bordeaux 1
University of Bordeaux self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
University Bordeaux 2
University of Bordeaux self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
University Bordeaux 4
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| foundedIn | 2014 ⓘ |
| hasAcademicChairIn | sociology ⓘ |
| hasAcademicStaff | over 3000 ⓘ |
| hasCampus |
Bordeaux city center campus
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Gradignan campus ⓘ Pessac campus ⓘ Talence campus ⓘ |
| hasMotto | “Faire réussir” ⓘ |
| hasNotableAcademic | Émile Durkheim ⓘ |
| hasQSWorldRankingCategory | top 500 universities worldwide ⓘ |
| hasRectorate | Bordeaux ⓘ |
| hasResearchFocus |
digital sciences
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environmental sciences ⓘ health sciences ⓘ materials science ⓘ neuroscience ⓘ |
| hasStudentEnrollment | over 50000 ⓘ |
| hasType | public institution ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.u-bordeaux.fr ⓘ |
| historicallyHosted | one of the first academic chairs in sociology ⓘ |
| isPartOf | French public university system ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction |
English
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French ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Bordeaux ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Nouvelle-Aquitaine ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
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Central European Time ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Community of Universities and Institutions of Aquitaine
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University of Bordeaux self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cortéleoni University Network (Université de Bordeaux groupings)
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| notableFor | being an early center of academic sociology ⓘ |
| operatedBy | French Ministry of Higher Education and Research ⓘ |
| predecessor | historic University of Bordeaux founded in 1441 ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
economics
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humanities ⓘ law ⓘ medicine ⓘ science and technology ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Bordeaux Description of subject: The University of Bordeaux is a major French public research university historically notable as a pioneering center for sociology, where Émile Durkheim held one of the first academic chairs in the discipline.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Université de Bordeaux
this entity surface form:
Université de Bordeaux
this entity surface form:
Cortéleoni University Network (Université de Bordeaux groupings)
this entity surface form:
University Bordeaux 1
this entity surface form:
University Bordeaux 2
this entity surface form:
University Bordeaux 4