Crescere aude
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Crescere aude is the Latin motto of Vanderbilt University, commonly translated as "Dare to grow," expressing the institution’s emphasis on intellectual and personal development.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Crescere aude canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T275254 — 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: Crescere aude Context triple: [Vanderbilt University, motto, Crescere aude]
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A.
The Pleased
The Pleased was an indie rock band from San Francisco known for featuring harpist-singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom as a member early in her career.
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B.
Quicunque vult
Quicunque vult is a traditional Christian statement of faith, commonly known as the Athanasian Creed, that sets out detailed doctrines on the Trinity and the nature of Christ.
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C.
The Golden Stairs
The Golden Stairs is a celebrated 1880 oil painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, depicting a procession of ethereal young women descending a spiral staircase in a dreamlike, symbolist style.
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D.
The Twelve
The Twelve is a collection of twelve shorter prophetic books in the Hebrew Bible, often treated as a single unified work within the Minor Prophets.
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E.
Semper Supra
Semper Supra is the official motto of the United States Space Force, reflecting its mission to remain ever vigilant and dominant in space.
- 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: Crescere aude Target entity description: Crescere aude is the Latin motto of Vanderbilt University, commonly translated as "Dare to grow," expressing the institution’s emphasis on intellectual and personal development.
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A.
The Pleased
The Pleased was an indie rock band from San Francisco known for featuring harpist-singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom as a member early in her career.
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B.
Quicunque vult
Quicunque vult is a traditional Christian statement of faith, commonly known as the Athanasian Creed, that sets out detailed doctrines on the Trinity and the nature of Christ.
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C.
The Golden Stairs
The Golden Stairs is a celebrated 1880 oil painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, depicting a procession of ethereal young women descending a spiral staircase in a dreamlike, symbolist style.
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D.
The Twelve
The Twelve is a collection of twelve shorter prophetic books in the Hebrew Bible, often treated as a single unified work within the Minor Prophets.
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E.
Semper Supra
Semper Supra is the official motto of the United States Space Force, reflecting its mission to remain ever vigilant and dominant in space.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Latin phrase
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university motto ⓘ |
| expresses |
emphasis on intellectual development
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emphasis on personal development ⓘ |
| genre | educational motto ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| meaning | Dare to grow ⓘ |
| mottoOf | Vanderbilt University ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| translatedAs | Dare to grow ⓘ |
| usedBy | Vanderbilt University ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Crescere aude Description of subject: Crescere aude is the Latin motto of Vanderbilt University, commonly translated as "Dare to grow," expressing the institution’s emphasis on intellectual and personal development.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Vanderbilt University (attended briefly)