University of Kansas
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The University of Kansas is a major public research university in Lawrence, Kansas, known for its strong academic programs and storied Jayhawks basketball tradition.
All labels observed (18)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T195025 — 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 Kansas Context triple: [Paul Pierce, collegeAttended, University of Kansas]
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University of Oklahoma
The University of Oklahoma is a major public research university in Norman, Oklahoma, known for its strong academic programs, athletics, and contributions to fields such as meteorology and engineering.
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University of Missouri
The University of Missouri is a major public research university in Columbia, Missouri, known for its flagship "Mizzou" campus, strong journalism and agriculture programs, and membership in the SEC athletic conference.
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University of Nebraska–Lincoln
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is a major public research university and flagship campus of the University of Nebraska system, known for its strong academic programs and notable alumni including investor Warren Buffett.
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University of Missouri–Kansas City
The University of Missouri–Kansas City is a public research university in Kansas City known for its professional programs in fields such as medicine, law, business, and the arts.
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Iowa State College
Iowa State College, now known as Iowa State University, is a major public land-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa.
- 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 Kansas Target entity description: The University of Kansas is a major public research university in Lawrence, Kansas, known for its strong academic programs and storied Jayhawks basketball tradition.
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University of Oklahoma
The University of Oklahoma is a major public research university in Norman, Oklahoma, known for its strong academic programs, athletics, and contributions to fields such as meteorology and engineering.
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B.
University of Missouri
The University of Missouri is a major public research university in Columbia, Missouri, known for its flagship "Mizzou" campus, strong journalism and agriculture programs, and membership in the SEC athletic conference.
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C.
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is a major public research university and flagship campus of the University of Nebraska system, known for its strong academic programs and notable alumni including investor Warren Buffett.
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University of Missouri–Kansas City
The University of Missouri–Kansas City is a public research university in Kansas City known for its professional programs in fields such as medicine, law, business, and the arts.
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Iowa State College
Iowa State College, now known as Iowa State University, is a major public land-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa.
- 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: University of Kansas Description of subject: The University of Kansas is a major public research university in Lawrence, Kansas, known for its strong academic programs and storied Jayhawks basketball tradition.
Referenced by (183)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bob Dole
subject surface form:
Mary Beck Briscoe
this entity surface form:
University of Kansas system
this entity surface form:
University of Kansas academic health system
this entity surface form:
University of Kansas Lawrence campus
this entity surface form:
University of Kansas campus
this entity surface form:
University of Kansas Edwards Campus
this entity surface form:
University of Kansas main campus in Lawrence, Kansas
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (University of Kansas)
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University of Kansas
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this entity surface form:
University of Kansas administration
subject surface form:
Lawrence, Kansas
subject surface form:
Lawrence, Kansas
this entity surface form:
University of Kansas Athletics Department