Tacoma Community College
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Tacoma Community College is a public two-year institution in Tacoma, Washington, offering associate degrees, professional-technical programs, and transfer pathways to four-year universities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tacoma Community College canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T989165 — 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: Tacoma Community College Context triple: [Tacoma, Washington, hasCollege, Tacoma Community College]
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A.
Chabot College
Chabot College is a public community college in Hayward, California, known for serving as an early stepping stone in the education of actor Tom Hanks.
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B.
Mt. Hood Community College
Mt. Hood Community College is a public community college serving the greater Portland metropolitan area with a wide range of academic, technical, and workforce training programs.
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C.
Iowa Western Community College
Iowa Western Community College is a public community college in western Iowa offering two-year degrees and vocational programs serving the greater Omaha–Council Bluffs region.
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D.
Evergreen State College
Evergreen State College is a public liberal arts college in Olympia, Washington, known for its interdisciplinary curriculum, narrative evaluations, and progressive educational philosophy.
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E.
University of Alaska Southeast
The University of Alaska Southeast is a public regional university in Alaska known for its programs in marine biology, environmental science, education, and liberal arts, serving students across the state's Southeast region.
- 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: Tacoma Community College Target entity description: Tacoma Community College is a public two-year institution in Tacoma, Washington, offering associate degrees, professional-technical programs, and transfer pathways to four-year universities.
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A.
Chabot College
Chabot College is a public community college in Hayward, California, known for serving as an early stepping stone in the education of actor Tom Hanks.
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B.
Mt. Hood Community College
Mt. Hood Community College is a public community college serving the greater Portland metropolitan area with a wide range of academic, technical, and workforce training programs.
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C.
Iowa Western Community College
Iowa Western Community College is a public community college in western Iowa offering two-year degrees and vocational programs serving the greater Omaha–Council Bluffs region.
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D.
Evergreen State College
Evergreen State College is a public liberal arts college in Olympia, Washington, known for its interdisciplinary curriculum, narrative evaluations, and progressive educational philosophy.
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E.
University of Alaska Southeast
The University of Alaska Southeast is a public regional university in Alaska known for its programs in marine biology, environmental science, education, and liberal arts, serving students across the state's Southeast region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
community college
ⓘ
public college ⓘ two-year institution ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| educationLevel | undergraduate ⓘ |
| educationSystem | U.S. community college system ⓘ |
| fundingType | publicly funded ⓘ |
| governance | publicly governed ⓘ |
| hasAcademicFocus |
career and technical education
ⓘ
university transfer pathways ⓘ workforce development ⓘ |
| hasMission |
to prepare students for transfer to four-year institutions
ⓘ
to provide accessible and affordable higher education ⓘ to support workforce and community needs ⓘ |
| hasPathway |
direct employment pathways
ⓘ
transfer to four-year universities ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryRole |
community college transfer institution
ⓘ
postsecondary education provider ⓘ |
| hasStudentType |
full-time students
ⓘ
non-traditional students ⓘ part-time students ⓘ traditional students ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pierce County, Washington
ⓘ
linked to:
Pierce County
Tacoma, Washington ⓘ |
| offersCredential |
Associate in Applied Science
ⓘ
Associate of Arts ⓘ Associate of Science ⓘ professional certificates ⓘ |
| offersModeOfStudy |
hybrid courses
ⓘ
on-campus instruction ⓘ online courses ⓘ |
| offersProgramType |
associate degree programs
ⓘ
basic skills education ⓘ continuing education ⓘ professional-technical programs ⓘ transfer programs ⓘ |
| offersSupportService |
academic advising
ⓘ
career services ⓘ financial aid advising ⓘ tutoring services ⓘ |
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| sector | public ⓘ |
| servesCommunity |
Pierce County community
ⓘ
Tacoma metropolitan area ⓘ
linked to:
Tacoma, Washington
|
| state | Washington ⓘ |
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: Tacoma Community College Description of subject: Tacoma Community College is a public two-year institution in Tacoma, Washington, offering associate degrees, professional-technical programs, and transfer pathways to four-year universities.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.