Thesis Parade
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Thesis Parade is a celebratory Reed College tradition in which seniors parade across campus after submitting their theses, often accompanied by costumes, music, and communal festivities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thesis Parade canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T734335 — 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: Thesis Parade Context triple: [Reed College, notableTradition, Thesis Parade]
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A.
The Parade
The Parade is a historic Olmsted-designed public park space in Buffalo, New York, originally created as a grand civic grounds for recreation, gatherings, and cultural events.
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B.
The Victors
"The Victors" is the iconic fight song of the University of Michigan, widely recognized as one of the most famous and triumphant college football anthems in the United States.
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C.
Dux Infinitos
Dux Infinitos is a professional esports team that competes in the NBA 2K League.
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D.
The Great Eight
The Great Eight is the famous nickname of Russian ice hockey superstar Alex Ovechkin, one of the most prolific goal scorers in NHL history.
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E.
The Ball
The Ball is the popular nickname for Reunion Tower, a distinctive geodesic observation tower and Dallas landmark known for its glowing spherical top.
- 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: Thesis Parade Target entity description: Thesis Parade is a celebratory Reed College tradition in which seniors parade across campus after submitting their theses, often accompanied by costumes, music, and communal festivities.
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A.
The Parade
The Parade is a historic Olmsted-designed public park space in Buffalo, New York, originally created as a grand civic grounds for recreation, gatherings, and cultural events.
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B.
The Victors
"The Victors" is the iconic fight song of the University of Michigan, widely recognized as one of the most famous and triumphant college football anthems in the United States.
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C.
Dux Infinitos
Dux Infinitos is a professional esports team that competes in the NBA 2K League.
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D.
The Great Eight
The Great Eight is the famous nickname of Russian ice hockey superstar Alex Ovechkin, one of the most prolific goal scorers in NHL history.
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E.
The Ball
The Ball is the popular nickname for Reunion Tower, a distinctive geodesic observation tower and Dallas landmark known for its glowing spherical top.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Reed College tradition
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academic ritual ⓘ college tradition ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Reed College ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| feature |
communal festivities
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costumes ⓘ music ⓘ parade across campus ⓘ public procession ⓘ |
| hasCustom |
group marching or walking together
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seniors carrying or displaying their theses ⓘ seniors dressing in themed outfits ⓘ |
| location |
Portland
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surface form:
Portland, Oregon
Reed College campus ⓘ |
| name | Thesis Parade self-link ⓘ |
| occasion | thesis submission ⓘ |
| organizedBy | Reed College community ⓘ |
| participant |
Reed College faculty
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Reed College seniors ⓘ Reed College staff ⓘ Reed College students ⓘ |
| purpose |
celebration of thesis completion
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community celebration ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Reed College senior thesis requirement
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senior thesis ⓘ |
| socialRole |
marks transition from student to graduate
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reinforces Reed College community identity ⓘ |
| theme |
academic achievement
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senior class milestone ⓘ |
| timeWithinAcademicYear | end of senior year ⓘ |
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: Thesis Parade Description of subject: Thesis Parade is a celebratory Reed College tradition in which seniors parade across campus after submitting their theses, often accompanied by costumes, music, and communal festivities.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.