AQA
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AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance) is a major UK exam board that designs and administers school and college qualifications, including GCSEs and A-levels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| AQA canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9107817 — 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: AQA Context triple: [GCE Advanced Level, awardedBy, AQA]
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A.
OxfordAQA
OxfordAQA is an international exam board formed through a partnership between Oxford University Press and AQA, providing UK-style qualifications to schools outside the United Kingdom.
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B.
CA:AQA
CA:AQA is a widely used abbreviation for the influential textbook "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach," a foundational work in modern computer architecture education and research.
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C.
GCE Advanced Level (A‑level)
GCE Advanced Level (A‑level) is a subject-based qualification typically taken by students in the UK and some other countries at the end of secondary education, often used for university entrance.
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D.
Ofqual
Ofqual is the independent regulator of qualifications, exams, and assessments in England, responsible for maintaining standards and public confidence in the examination system.
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E.
GCE
GCE is Google’s infrastructure-as-a-service platform that provides scalable virtual machines and related cloud computing resources on Google Cloud.
- 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: AQA Target entity description: AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance) is a major UK exam board that designs and administers school and college qualifications, including GCSEs and A-levels.
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A.
OxfordAQA
OxfordAQA is an international exam board formed through a partnership between Oxford University Press and AQA, providing UK-style qualifications to schools outside the United Kingdom.
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B.
CA:AQA
CA:AQA is a widely used abbreviation for the influential textbook "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach," a foundational work in modern computer architecture education and research.
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C.
GCE Advanced Level (A‑level)
GCE Advanced Level (A‑level) is a subject-based qualification typically taken by students in the UK and some other countries at the end of secondary education, often used for university entrance.
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D.
Ofqual
Ofqual is the independent regulator of qualifications, exams, and assessments in England, responsible for maintaining standards and public confidence in the examination system.
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E.
GCE
GCE is Google’s infrastructure-as-a-service platform that provides scalable virtual machines and related cloud computing resources on Google Cloud.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
awarding organisation
ⓘ
exam board ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employs |
assessment designers
ⓘ
examiners ⓘ markers ⓘ |
| formationMethod | merger of existing exam boards ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Associated Examining Board
NERFINISHED
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City & Guilds vocational awarding arm NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Examinations and Assessment Board NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Assessment and Qualifications Alliance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governanceType | board of trustees ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | AQA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Guildford
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Manchester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOneOf | major UK exam boards ⓘ |
| languageOfAssessment | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | charitable company limited by guarantee ⓘ |
| nonProfitStatus | charity ⓘ |
| offersQualificationType |
A level
ⓘ
AS level NERFINISHED ⓘ Applied General ⓘ EPQ NERFINISHED ⓘ Functional Skills ⓘ GCSE NERFINISHED ⓘ Level 1/2 Certificate ⓘ Technical Award ⓘ |
| operatesInSector |
assessment
ⓘ
education ⓘ qualifications ⓘ |
| primaryRegionServed |
England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Northern Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| providesService |
administration of examinations
ⓘ
assessment research ⓘ awarding of grades ⓘ design of examination specifications ⓘ marking of examinations ⓘ teacher training and support ⓘ |
| regulatesUnder |
CCEA Regulation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ofqual NERFINISHED ⓘ Qualifications Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectAreaCoverage |
English
ⓘ
arts ⓘ humanities ⓘ languages ⓘ mathematics ⓘ sciences ⓘ social sciences ⓘ |
| website | https://www.aqa.org.uk ⓘ |
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: AQA Description of subject: AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance) is a major UK exam board that designs and administers school and college qualifications, including GCSEs and A-levels.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
GCE Advanced Level