Eastern Illinois University
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Eastern Illinois University is a public university in Charleston, Illinois, known for its strong liberal arts and teacher education programs.
All labels observed (14)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T412332 — 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: Eastern Illinois University Context triple: [Roxane Gay, employer, Eastern Illinois University]
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A.
University of Louisiana at Monroe
The University of Louisiana at Monroe is a public university in northeastern Louisiana known for its programs in pharmacy, health sciences, business, and aviation.
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B.
North Central College
North Central College is a private liberal arts college located in Naperville, Illinois, known for its strong undergraduate programs and historic campus.
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Indiana University
Indiana University is a major public research university system in the U.S. state of Indiana, known for its flagship campus in Bloomington and strong programs across the arts, sciences, and professional fields.
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D.
DePaul University
DePaul University is a private Roman Catholic university in Chicago known for its urban campuses, diverse student body, and strong programs in business, law, and the arts.
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E.
Elmhurst University
Elmhurst University is a private liberal arts institution located in the Chicago suburb of Elmhurst, Illinois.
- 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: Eastern Illinois University Target entity description: Eastern Illinois University is a public university in Charleston, Illinois, known for its strong liberal arts and teacher education programs.
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A.
University of Louisiana at Monroe
The University of Louisiana at Monroe is a public university in northeastern Louisiana known for its programs in pharmacy, health sciences, business, and aviation.
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B.
North Central College
North Central College is a private liberal arts college located in Naperville, Illinois, known for its strong undergraduate programs and historic campus.
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C.
Indiana University
Indiana University is a major public research university system in the U.S. state of Indiana, known for its flagship campus in Bloomington and strong programs across the arts, sciences, and professional fields.
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D.
DePaul University
DePaul University is a private Roman Catholic university in Chicago known for its urban campuses, diverse student body, and strong programs in business, law, and the arts.
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E.
Elmhurst University
Elmhurst University is a private liberal arts institution located in the Chicago suburb of Elmhurst, Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Eastern Illinois University Description of subject: Eastern Illinois University is a public university in Charleston, Illinois, known for its strong liberal arts and teacher education programs.
Referenced by (60)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Eastern Illinois University)
subject surface form:
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Eastern Illinois University)
this entity surface form:
Eastern Illinois University main campus
subject surface form:
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Eastern Illinois University)
subject surface form:
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Eastern Illinois University)
this entity surface form:
Eastern Illinois University system
subject surface form:
College of Education (Eastern Illinois University)
subject surface form:
College of Education (Eastern Illinois University)