Great Lakes Colleges Association
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The Great Lakes Colleges Association is a consortium of small, selective liberal arts colleges in the Great Lakes region of the United States that collaborate on academic programs and institutional initiatives.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Great Lakes Colleges Association canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4394287 — 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: Great Lakes Colleges Association Context triple: [DePauw University, memberOf, Great Lakes Colleges Association]
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A.
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division II collegiate athletic conference featuring universities primarily located in the Great Lakes region of the United States.
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B.
Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference
The Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference is an intercollegiate athletic conference primarily composed of small colleges and universities in the Chicago metropolitan area, competing in the NAIA.
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C.
Midwestern Collegiate Conference
The Midwestern Collegiate Conference, later known as the Horizon League, was an NCAA Division I athletic conference primarily composed of Midwestern universities.
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D.
Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association
The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association is an NCAA Division II collegiate athletic conference primarily composed of universities in the Midwestern United States.
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E.
Great Midwest Conference
The Great Midwest Conference was a former NCAA Division I athletic conference that operated in the early 1990s, primarily featuring universities from the Midwestern United States before its members were absorbed into Conference USA.
- 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: Great Lakes Colleges Association Target entity description: The Great Lakes Colleges Association is a consortium of small, selective liberal arts colleges in the Great Lakes region of the United States that collaborate on academic programs and institutional initiatives.
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A.
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division II collegiate athletic conference featuring universities primarily located in the Great Lakes region of the United States.
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B.
Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference
The Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference is an intercollegiate athletic conference primarily composed of small colleges and universities in the Chicago metropolitan area, competing in the NAIA.
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C.
Midwestern Collegiate Conference
The Midwestern Collegiate Conference, later known as the Horizon League, was an NCAA Division I athletic conference primarily composed of Midwestern universities.
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D.
Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association
The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association is an NCAA Division II collegiate athletic conference primarily composed of universities in the Midwestern United States.
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E.
Great Midwest Conference
The Great Midwest Conference was a former NCAA Division I athletic conference that operated in the early 1990s, primarily featuring universities from the Midwestern United States before its members were absorbed into Conference USA.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college consortium
ⓘ
nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation | GLCA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratesOn |
assessment and evaluation
ⓘ
curricular innovation ⓘ diversity and inclusion initiatives ⓘ global learning programs ⓘ |
| coordinatesActivitiesOf | member institutions ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focus | liberal arts education ⓘ |
| founded | 1962 ⓘ |
| geographicScope | multi-state ⓘ |
| hasFacultyParticipantsFrom | member colleges ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Albion College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Allegheny College NERFINISHED ⓘ Antioch College NERFINISHED ⓘ DePauw University NERFINISHED ⓘ Denison University NERFINISHED ⓘ Earlham College NERFINISHED ⓘ Hope College NERFINISHED ⓘ Kalamazoo College NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenyon College NERFINISHED ⓘ Oberlin College NERFINISHED ⓘ Ohio Wesleyan University NERFINISHED ⓘ Wabash College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStudentParticipantsFrom | member colleges ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Ann Arbor, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | nonprofit ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| memberType |
liberal arts colleges
ⓘ
selective colleges ⓘ small colleges ⓘ |
| operatesInSector | private higher education ⓘ |
| programType |
collaborative research initiatives
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faculty development programs ⓘ off-campus study programs ⓘ shared academic resources ⓘ |
| purpose |
academic collaboration
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enhancement of liberal arts education ⓘ institutional collaboration ⓘ |
| regionServed | Great Lakes region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
| supports |
faculty scholarship
ⓘ
institutional effectiveness ⓘ undergraduate education ⓘ |
| website | https://www.glca.org/ ⓘ |
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: Great Lakes Colleges Association Description of subject: The Great Lakes Colleges Association is a consortium of small, selective liberal arts colleges in the Great Lakes region of the United States that collaborate on academic programs and institutional initiatives.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.