St. John’s College
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St. John’s College was the original name of Fordham University, a private Jesuit research university in New York City.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| St. John's College, Fordham | 1 |
| St. John’s College canonical | 1 |
| St. John’s College, Fordham | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1884264 — 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: St. John’s College Context triple: [Fordham University, formerName, St. John’s College]
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A.
St. John’s College, Annapolis
St. John’s College, Annapolis is a historic liberal arts college in Maryland best known for its Great Books curriculum centered on classic works of Western thought.
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B.
Marlboro College
Marlboro College was a small, progressive liberal arts college in Marlboro, Vermont, known for its individualized, student-directed academic programs and close-knit campus community.
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James College
James College is one of the constituent residential colleges of the University of York, providing accommodation, social spaces, and community activities for its students.
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D.
Hampshire College
Hampshire College is an experimental liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, known for its student-designed curricula, narrative evaluations, and membership in the Five College Consortium.
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E.
Silliman College
Silliman College is one of Yale University's residential colleges, known for its large courtyard, active student community, and distinctive collegiate Gothic and Georgian architecture.
- 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: St. John’s College Target entity description: St. John’s College was the original name of Fordham University, a private Jesuit research university in New York City.
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A.
St. John’s College, Annapolis
St. John’s College, Annapolis is a historic liberal arts college in Maryland best known for its Great Books curriculum centered on classic works of Western thought.
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B.
Marlboro College
Marlboro College was a small, progressive liberal arts college in Marlboro, Vermont, known for its individualized, student-directed academic programs and close-knit campus community.
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C.
James College
James College is one of the constituent residential colleges of the University of York, providing accommodation, social spaces, and community activities for its students.
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D.
Hampshire College
Hampshire College is an experimental liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, known for its student-designed curricula, narrative evaluations, and membership in the Five College Consortium.
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E.
Silliman College
Silliman College is one of Yale University's residential colleges, known for its large courtyard, active student community, and distinctive collegiate Gothic and Georgian architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
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: St. John’s College Description of subject: St. John’s College was the original name of Fordham University, a private Jesuit research university in New York City.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: St. John’s College
linked to: St. John’s College