Hillman College
E340785
Hillman College is the fictional historically Black college featured in the television series "A Different World."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hillman College canonical | 14 |
| Hillman College Bulldogs | 1 |
| Hillman College campus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3248793 — 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: Hillman College Context triple: [A Different World, setting, Hillman College]
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A.
Fairmount College
Fairmount College was the original private liberal arts institution that later evolved into Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas.
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B.
Five Towns College
Five Towns College is a private college on Long Island known for its programs in music, media, and the performing arts.
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C.
York College of Pennsylvania
York College of Pennsylvania is a private four-year college known for its career-focused undergraduate and graduate programs in fields such as business, engineering, and the health sciences.
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D.
Charlotte College
Charlotte College was a public community college in Charlotte, North Carolina that later evolved into the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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E.
Lebanon Valley College
Lebanon Valley College is a private liberal arts college in Annville, Pennsylvania, known for its strong undergraduate programs and close-knit campus community.
- 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: Hillman College Target entity description: Hillman College is the fictional historically Black college featured in the television series "A Different World."
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A.
Fairmount College
Fairmount College was the original private liberal arts institution that later evolved into Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas.
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B.
Five Towns College
Five Towns College is a private college on Long Island known for its programs in music, media, and the performing arts.
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C.
York College of Pennsylvania
York College of Pennsylvania is a private four-year college known for its career-focused undergraduate and graduate programs in fields such as business, engineering, and the health sciences.
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D.
Charlotte College
Charlotte College was a public community college in Charlotte, North Carolina that later evolved into the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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E.
Lebanon Valley College
Lebanon Valley College is a private liberal arts college in Annville, Pennsylvania, known for its strong undergraduate programs and close-knit campus community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Hillman College Description of subject: Hillman College is the fictional historically Black college featured in the television series "A Different World."
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Hillman College
linked to: Hillman College
subject linked to:
Colonel Bradford Taylor in A Different World
subject linked to:
Colonel Bradford Taylor in A Different World