Weber State University
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Weber State University is a public university in Ogden, Utah, known for its strong undergraduate programs and for producing NBA All-Star Damian Lillard.
All labels observed (9)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1282261 — 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: Weber State University Context triple: [Damian Lillard, collegeAttended, Weber State University]
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Utah State University
Utah State University is a public land-grant research university in Logan, Utah, known for its strong programs in agriculture, engineering, and natural resources.
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Utah Valley University
Utah Valley University is a public university in Orem, Utah, known for its open-enrollment policy and strong emphasis on teaching and workforce-oriented programs.
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University of Utah
The University of Utah is a major public research university in Salt Lake City known for its pioneering contributions to computer science, medicine, and engineering.
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Boise State University
Boise State University is a public research university best known for its blue turf football field and comprehensive academic programs in Idaho’s capital city.
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South Valley University
South Valley University is a public Egyptian university serving the Upper Egypt region with multiple campuses and a range of academic 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: Weber State University Target entity description: Weber State University is a public university in Ogden, Utah, known for its strong undergraduate programs and for producing NBA All-Star Damian Lillard.
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Utah State University
Utah State University is a public land-grant research university in Logan, Utah, known for its strong programs in agriculture, engineering, and natural resources.
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Utah Valley University
Utah Valley University is a public university in Orem, Utah, known for its open-enrollment policy and strong emphasis on teaching and workforce-oriented programs.
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University of Utah
The University of Utah is a major public research university in Salt Lake City known for its pioneering contributions to computer science, medicine, and engineering.
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D.
Boise State University
Boise State University is a public research university best known for its blue turf football field and comprehensive academic programs in Idaho’s capital city.
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E.
South Valley University
South Valley University is a public Egyptian university serving the Upper Egypt region with multiple campuses and a range of academic programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Weber State University Description of subject: Weber State University is a public university in Ogden, Utah, known for its strong undergraduate programs and for producing NBA All-Star Damian Lillard.
Referenced by (87)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Weber State University
linked to: Weber State University
linked to: Weber State University
subject linked to:
Wildcats
subject linked to:
Wildcats
linked to: Weber State University
subject linked to:
Wildcats
subject linked to:
Wildcats
linked to: Weber State University
linked to: Weber State University
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BSC
Ogden–Clearfield, UT Metropolitan Statistical Area
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containsHigherEducationInstitution
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Weber State University
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linked to: Weber State University
linked to: Weber State University