Modern Language Association
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The Modern Language Association is a major professional organization in the United States dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature, best known for its influential style guidelines and support for humanities scholarship.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Modern Language Association canonical | 5 |
| Modern Language Association of America | 2 |
| MLA | 1 |
| MLA Handbook | 1 |
| Modern Language Association style | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9723782 — 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: Modern Language Association Context triple: [Katherine A. Rowe, memberOf, Modern Language Association]
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A.
Linguistic Society of America
The Linguistic Society of America is a leading professional organization dedicated to the scientific study and promotion of language and linguistics.
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B.
Committee on Style
The Committee on Style was the group at the U.S. Constitutional Convention responsible for refining and drafting the final wording of the United States Constitution.
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C.
MLA
MLA is the commonly used abbreviation for a Member of the Legislative Assembly, referring to elected representatives in certain Canadian provincial legislatures such as Manitoba’s.
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D.
Chicago Manual of Style
The Chicago Manual of Style is a widely used American style guide that provides comprehensive rules for grammar, punctuation, citation, and manuscript preparation, especially in publishing and academia.
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E.
American Library Association
The American Library Association is a leading professional organization in the United States that promotes libraries and librarianship, sets standards for library education, and accredits library 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: Modern Language Association Target entity description: The Modern Language Association is a major professional organization in the United States dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature, best known for its influential style guidelines and support for humanities scholarship.
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A.
Linguistic Society of America
The Linguistic Society of America is a leading professional organization dedicated to the scientific study and promotion of language and linguistics.
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B.
Committee on Style
The Committee on Style was the group at the U.S. Constitutional Convention responsible for refining and drafting the final wording of the United States Constitution.
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C.
MLA
MLA is the commonly used abbreviation for a Member of the Legislative Assembly, referring to elected representatives in certain Canadian provincial legislatures such as Manitoba’s.
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D.
Chicago Manual of Style
The Chicago Manual of Style is a widely used American style guide that provides comprehensive rules for grammar, punctuation, citation, and manuscript preparation, especially in publishing and academia.
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E.
American Library Association
The American Library Association is a leading professional organization in the United States that promotes libraries and librarianship, sets standards for library education, and accredits library and information science programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
learned society
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nonprofit organization ⓘ professional association ⓘ |
| abbreviation | MLA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| field |
humanities
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language studies ⓘ literary studies ⓘ literature ⓘ modern languages ⓘ |
| foundedBy | A. Marshall Elliott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCommittee |
Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities
NERFINISHED
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Committee on Community Colleges NERFINISHED ⓘ Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession NERFINISHED ⓘ Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
college teachers
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graduate students ⓘ independent scholars ⓘ librarians ⓘ publishers ⓘ translators ⓘ university teachers ⓘ writers ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| inception | 1883 ⓘ |
| issues |
guidelines for academic publishing
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guidelines for tenure and promotion in language and literature fields ⓘ |
| knownFor |
MLA Handbook
NERFINISHED
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MLA style NERFINISHED ⓘ style guidelines for scholarly writing ⓘ support for humanities disciplines ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| organizes |
annual convention
ⓘ
conferences ⓘ |
| publicationType |
academic journal
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bibliographic database ⓘ style manual ⓘ |
| publishes |
MLA Handbook
NERFINISHED
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MLA International Bibliography NERFINISHED ⓘ PMLA NERFINISHED ⓘ Profession ⓘ |
| purpose |
promotion of the study and teaching of language and literature
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support for humanities scholarship ⓘ |
| regionServed |
North America
ⓘ
international ⓘ |
| supports |
language teaching
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literature teaching ⓘ research in literature ⓘ research in modern languages ⓘ |
| website | https://www.mla.org/ ⓘ |
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: Modern Language Association Description of subject: The Modern Language Association is a major professional organization in the United States dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature, best known for its influential style guidelines and support for humanities scholarship.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Modern Language Association of America
this entity surface form:
MLA Handbook
this entity surface form:
Modern Language Association style
Department of English (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
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affiliation
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Modern Language Association
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this entity surface form:
Modern Language Association of America
this entity surface form:
MLA