St. Thomas (Minnesota)
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St. Thomas (Minnesota) is a private Catholic university in St. Paul, Minnesota, known for its strong liberal arts and professional programs and competitive NCAA Division I athletics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| St. Thomas (Minnesota) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7677873 — 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: St. Thomas (Minnesota) Context triple: [Central Collegiate Hockey Association, memberInstitution, St. Thomas (Minnesota)]
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A.
St. Francis, Minnesota
St. Francis, Minnesota is a small city in Anoka County known for its suburban-rural character and location along the Rum River in the northern Twin Cities metropolitan area.
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B.
Mankato, Minnesota
Mankato, Minnesota is a city in south-central Minnesota known historically as the site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history following the Dakota War of 1862.
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C.
Ostrander, Minnesota
Ostrander, Minnesota is a small rural city located in southeastern Minnesota within Fillmore County.
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D.
Chisholm, Minnesota
Chisholm, Minnesota is a small city on the Mesabi Iron Range known for its mining history and the Minnesota Discovery Center.
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E.
Stewartville, Minnesota
Stewartville, Minnesota is a small city in southeastern Minnesota best known as the birthplace of Richard Warren Sears, co-founder of the Sears, Roebuck and Company retail empire.
- 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: St. Thomas (Minnesota) Target entity description: St. Thomas (Minnesota) is a private Catholic university in St. Paul, Minnesota, known for its strong liberal arts and professional programs and competitive NCAA Division I athletics.
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A.
St. Francis, Minnesota
St. Francis, Minnesota is a small city in Anoka County known for its suburban-rural character and location along the Rum River in the northern Twin Cities metropolitan area.
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B.
Mankato, Minnesota
Mankato, Minnesota is a city in south-central Minnesota known historically as the site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history following the Dakota War of 1862.
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C.
Ostrander, Minnesota
Ostrander, Minnesota is a small rural city located in southeastern Minnesota within Fillmore County.
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D.
Chisholm, Minnesota
Chisholm, Minnesota is a small city on the Mesabi Iron Range known for its mining history and the Minnesota Discovery Center.
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E.
Stewartville, Minnesota
Stewartville, Minnesota is a small city in southeastern Minnesota best known as the birthplace of Richard Warren Sears, co-founder of the Sears, Roebuck and Company retail empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
liberal arts college
ⓘ
private university ⓘ research university ⓘ |
| academicStrength |
business
ⓘ
education ⓘ engineering ⓘ health sciences ⓘ law ⓘ liberal arts ⓘ |
| athleticsAffiliation | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| athleticsConference |
Central Collegiate Hockey Association
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pioneer Football League NERFINISHED ⓘ Summit League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| athleticsNickname | Tommies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| campusType | urban ⓘ |
| cityServed | St. Paul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formerAthleticsAffiliation | NCAA Division III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerAthleticsConference | Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerName | College of St. Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder | John Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1885 ⓘ |
| hasCampus |
Minneapolis campus
ⓘ
Rome campus ⓘ St. Paul campus ⓘ |
| hasCollege |
College of Arts and Sciences
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Morrison Family College of Health NERFINISHED ⓘ Opus College of Business NERFINISHED ⓘ School of Education NERFINISHED ⓘ School of Engineering NERFINISHED ⓘ School of Law NERFINISHED ⓘ The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Minnesota
ⓘ
St. Paul, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Twin Cities NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mascot | Tommie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| metroAreaServed | Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motto | All for the Common Good NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mottoLanguage | English ⓘ |
| offersProgramType |
graduate programs
ⓘ
professional programs ⓘ undergraduate programs ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roman Catholicism ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
|
| schoolColors |
gray
ⓘ
purple ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| transitionedToDivisionI | 2021 ⓘ |
| type | private, nonprofit ⓘ |
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: St. Thomas (Minnesota) Description of subject: St. Thomas (Minnesota) is a private Catholic university in St. Paul, Minnesota, known for its strong liberal arts and professional programs and competitive NCAA Division I athletics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.