Block Plan
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The Block Plan is Colorado College’s distinctive academic calendar system in which students take and complete one intensive course at a time in short, immersive terms.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Block Plan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1651104 — 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: Block Plan Context triple: [Colorado College, academicCalendar, Block Plan]
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A.
Rail Settlement Plan
The Rail Settlement Plan is a central system used across the UK rail industry to manage ticketing, revenue allocation, and financial settlement between train operating companies.
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B.
Planera
Planera is a small genus of deciduous trees in the elm family, best known for the species Planera aquatica, commonly called the water elm.
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C.
Backe Plan
Backe Plan was a Nazi-era strategy devised by Herbert Backe to exploit agricultural resources in the occupied Soviet Union, deliberately causing mass starvation to support the German war effort.
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D.
Central City North Community Plan Area
Central City North Community Plan Area is a designated planning district within the City of Los Angeles that guides land use, development, and community growth policies for neighborhoods just north of Downtown.
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E.
Delta Plan
The Delta Plan is a comprehensive Dutch flood protection and water management project designed to safeguard the low-lying Netherlands from the sea through an extensive system of dams, storm surge barriers, and dikes.
- 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: Block Plan Target entity description: The Block Plan is Colorado College’s distinctive academic calendar system in which students take and complete one intensive course at a time in short, immersive terms.
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A.
Rail Settlement Plan
The Rail Settlement Plan is a central system used across the UK rail industry to manage ticketing, revenue allocation, and financial settlement between train operating companies.
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B.
Planera
Planera is a small genus of deciduous trees in the elm family, best known for the species Planera aquatica, commonly called the water elm.
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C.
Backe Plan
Backe Plan was a Nazi-era strategy devised by Herbert Backe to exploit agricultural resources in the occupied Soviet Union, deliberately causing mass starvation to support the German war effort.
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D.
Central City North Community Plan Area
Central City North Community Plan Area is a designated planning district within the City of Los Angeles that guides land use, development, and community growth policies for neighborhoods just north of Downtown.
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E.
Delta Plan
The Delta Plan is a comprehensive Dutch flood protection and water management project designed to safeguard the low-lying Netherlands from the sea through an extensive system of dams, storm surge barriers, and dikes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic calendar system
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course scheduling model ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
promote deep engagement with course material
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reduce course multitasking ⓘ support experiential education ⓘ |
| appliesTo | undergraduate programs at Colorado College ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Colorado College academic culture
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Colorado College curriculum ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
quarter system
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traditional semester system ⓘ |
| enables |
completion of one course per block
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field-based learning opportunities ⓘ intensive seminars ⓘ laboratory immersion ⓘ off-campus study during blocks ⓘ |
| focusesOn | single subject at a time ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Colorado College Block Plan
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linked to:
Colorado College
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| hasCharacteristic |
full-time focus on a single course
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immersive learning ⓘ intensive study ⓘ one-course-at-a-time format ⓘ short academic terms ⓘ |
| implementedAt | Colorado Springs, Colorado ⓘ |
| organizes |
academic calendar at Colorado College
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course enrollment at Colorado College ⓘ teaching schedule at Colorado College ⓘ |
| usedBy | Colorado College ⓘ |
| usedFor |
scheduling assignments
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scheduling examinations ⓘ structuring academic workload ⓘ |
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: Block Plan Description of subject: The Block Plan is Colorado College’s distinctive academic calendar system in which students take and complete one intensive course at a time in short, immersive terms.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.