Holy Cross
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Holy Cross is a private Jesuit liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts, known formally as the College of the Holy Cross.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Holy Cross canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9600891 — 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: Holy Cross Context triple: [Holy Cross Crusaders men's ice hockey, nicknameOfInstitution, Holy Cross]
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A.
Holy Cross
Holy Cross is the historic parish in Shrewsbury, England, associated with the medieval Shrewsbury Abbey.
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B.
Holy Cross
Holy Cross is a Christian term referring to the cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified, venerated as a central symbol of sacrifice and redemption in Christianity.
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Holy Cross College
Holy Cross College is a small Catholic liberal arts college located near the University of Notre Dame in northern Indiana.
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D.
Chapel of the Holy Cross
The Chapel of the Holy Cross is a modernist Roman Catholic chapel dramatically built into the red rock buttes of Sedona, Arizona, and renowned for its striking architecture and panoramic desert views.
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E.
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
The Cathedral of the Holy Cross is a prominent 19th-century Roman Catholic cathedral in Boston, Massachusetts, serving as the mother church of the Archdiocese of Boston.
- 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: Holy Cross Target entity description: Holy Cross is a private Jesuit liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts, known formally as the College of the Holy Cross.
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A.
Holy Cross
Holy Cross is the historic parish in Shrewsbury, England, associated with the medieval Shrewsbury Abbey.
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B.
Holy Cross
Holy Cross is a Christian term referring to the cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified, venerated as a central symbol of sacrifice and redemption in Christianity.
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C.
Holy Cross College
Holy Cross College is a small Catholic liberal arts college located near the University of Notre Dame in northern Indiana.
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D.
Chapel of the Holy Cross
The Chapel of the Holy Cross is a modernist Roman Catholic chapel dramatically built into the red rock buttes of Sedona, Arizona, and renowned for its striking architecture and panoramic desert views.
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E.
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
The Cathedral of the Holy Cross is a prominent 19th-century Roman Catholic cathedral in Boston, Massachusetts, serving as the mother church of the Archdiocese of Boston.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jesuit college
ⓘ
private liberal arts college ⓘ |
| abbreviation | HC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| academicFocus | liberal arts ⓘ |
| accreditation | regional accreditation in the United States ⓘ |
| athleticsAssociation | NCAA Division I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| athleticsBrand | Holy Cross Crusaders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| athleticsConference | Patriot League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| beganCoeducation | 1972 ⓘ |
| campusSetting | urban campus ⓘ |
| city | Worcester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colors | purple and white ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| endowmentCurrency | USD ⓘ |
| formerGenderPolicy | men-only college ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Bishop Benedict Joseph Fenwick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1843 ⓘ |
| genderAdmissionPolicy | coeducational ⓘ |
| governanceType | independent, non-profit ⓘ |
| governedBy | board of trustees ⓘ |
| hasAcademicCalendar | semester system ⓘ |
| hasChapel | St. Joseph Memorial Chapel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFacility | Hart Center at the Luth Athletic Complex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLibrary | Dinand Library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableAlumni |
Bob Cousy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chris Matthews NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarence Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ Edward P. Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Worcester, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mascot | Crusader NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New England Commission of Higher Education NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motto | In hoc signo vinces ⓘ |
| mottoLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| mottoTranslation | In this sign you will conquer ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Holy Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| offersDegree | bachelor's degrees ⓘ |
| region | New England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
|
| religiousOrder | Society of Jesus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| schoolColors | purple ⓘ |
| shortName | Holy Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| type | private institution ⓘ |
| undergraduateOnly | true ⓘ |
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: Holy Cross Description of subject: Holy Cross is a private Jesuit liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts, known formally as the College of the Holy Cross.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.