Career Education Corporation
E132438
Career Education Corporation is a U.S.-based for-profit education company that operates career-focused colleges and universities offering a range of vocational and degree programs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Career Education Corporation canonical | 7 |
| Career Education Corp. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1154190 — 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: Career Education Corporation Context triple: [Schaumburg, Illinois, hasCorporatePresence, Career Education Corporation]
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A.
Professional Development Bureau
The Professional Development Bureau is a division of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia responsible for training, education, and career development of its officers and staff.
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B.
Becker Professional Education
Becker Professional Education is a leading provider of professional exam preparation and continuing education programs, best known for its CPA exam review courses.
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C.
Laurel Business Institute
Laurel Business Institute is a private career and technical school offering vocational and professional training programs in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
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D.
Carrington College
Carrington College is a U.S.-based career-focused institution offering certificate and degree programs primarily in healthcare and technical fields.
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E.
WEA Inc.
WEA Inc. was the former distribution and marketing arm of Warner Music Group, handling the global release of the company’s recorded music.
- 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: Career Education Corporation Target entity description: Career Education Corporation is a U.S.-based for-profit education company that operates career-focused colleges and universities offering a range of vocational and degree programs.
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A.
Professional Development Bureau
The Professional Development Bureau is a division of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia responsible for training, education, and career development of its officers and staff.
-
B.
Becker Professional Education
Becker Professional Education is a leading provider of professional exam preparation and continuing education programs, best known for its CPA exam review courses.
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C.
Laurel Business Institute
Laurel Business Institute is a private career and technical school offering vocational and professional training programs in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
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D.
Carrington College
Carrington College is a U.S.-based career-focused institution offering certificate and degree programs primarily in healthcare and technical fields.
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E.
WEA Inc.
WEA Inc. was the former distribution and marketing arm of Warner Music Group, handling the global release of the company’s recorded music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
for-profit education company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ |
| businessModel |
federal student aid-dependent revenue
ⓘ
tuition-dependent revenue ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| educationLevel |
associate degrees
ⓘ
bachelor's degrees ⓘ graduate programs ⓘ master's degrees ⓘ undergraduate programs ⓘ |
| focus |
career-focused education
ⓘ
vocational education ⓘ |
| foundedBy | John M. Larson ⓘ |
| hasAccreditationRelationships |
national accreditors
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regional accreditors ⓘ |
| hasFormerName |
Career Education Corp.
ⓘ
linked to:
Career Education Corporation
|
| hasMainRegulator |
U.S. Department of Education
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Department of Education
|
| headquartersLocation |
Illinois
ⓘ
Schaumburg, Illinois ⓘ |
| inception | 1994 ⓘ |
| industry |
for-profit education
ⓘ
higher education ⓘ postsecondary education ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in U.S. for-profit college industry ⓘ |
| offers |
campus-based programs
ⓘ
certificate programs ⓘ degree programs ⓘ online education programs ⓘ |
| operated |
American InterContinental University
ⓘ
Art and design schools ⓘ Brooks Institute ⓘ Colorado Technical University ⓘ Culinary schools ⓘ Health education schools ⓘ International Academy of Design and Technology ⓘ Le Cordon Bleu Schools North America ⓘ
linked to:
Le Cordon Bleu
Sanford-Brown College ⓘ Sanford-Brown Institute ⓘ
linked to:
Sanford-Brown College
|
| regulatoryIssues |
U.S. Department of Education investigations
ⓘ
state attorney general investigations ⓘ |
| sector | private sector ⓘ |
| served |
non-traditional students
ⓘ
online students ⓘ working adults ⓘ |
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
investigations regarding job placement rates
ⓘ
lawsuits regarding recruitment practices ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | CECO ⓘ |
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: Career Education Corporation Description of subject: Career Education Corporation is a U.S.-based for-profit education company that operates career-focused colleges and universities offering a range of vocational and degree programs.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Career Education Corporation