Washington University in St. Louis
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Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university in St. Louis, Missouri, known for its strong programs in medicine, engineering, and the arts and sciences.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2784 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Washington University in St. Louis Context triple: [J. C. R. Licklider, educatedAt, Washington University in St. Louis]
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University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a prestigious Ivy League research university in Philadelphia known for its strong programs across disciplines, including engineering, business, law, and medicine.
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Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University is a prestigious private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, renowned for its leadership in medical, public health, and scientific research.
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Stanford University
Stanford University is a prestigious private research university in the San Francisco Bay Area renowned for its academic excellence, innovation, and influence in technology and entrepreneurship.
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Rice University
Rice University is a private research university in Houston, Texas, known for its strong programs in science and engineering, small student body, and high level of research activity.
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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a major American public research university known for its strong engineering, computer science, and information science programs.
- 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: Washington University in St. Louis Target entity description: Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university in St. Louis, Missouri, known for its strong programs in medicine, engineering, and the arts and sciences.
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A.
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a prestigious Ivy League research university in Philadelphia known for its strong programs across disciplines, including engineering, business, law, and medicine.
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B.
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University is a prestigious private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, renowned for its leadership in medical, public health, and scientific research.
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C.
Stanford University
Stanford University is a prestigious private research university in the San Francisco Bay Area renowned for its academic excellence, innovation, and influence in technology and entrepreneurship.
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Rice University
Rice University is a private research university in Houston, Texas, known for its strong programs in science and engineering, small student body, and high level of research activity.
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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a major American public research university known for its strong engineering, computer science, and information science programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Washington University in St. Louis Description of subject: Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university in St. Louis, Missouri, known for its strong programs in medicine, engineering, and the arts and sciences.
Referenced by (205)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.