San Francisco State University
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San Francisco State University is a public university in San Francisco known for its diverse student body, strong liberal arts and social sciences programs, and history of student activism.
All labels observed (14)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T36394 — 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: San Francisco State University Context triple: [California State University, hasCampus, San Francisco State University]
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San Jose State University
San Jose State University is a large public university in downtown San Jose known for its strong engineering, business, and professional programs and its role as a major feeder school for Silicon Valley.
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California State University, Los Angeles
California State University, Los Angeles is a public university in Los Angeles known for its diverse student body, strong programs in fields such as criminal justice, business, and engineering, and its role as part of the California State University system.
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California State University, Sacramento
California State University, Sacramento is a large public university in California’s capital city, known for its diverse student body and strong programs in fields such as business, education, and public policy.
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California State University, Long Beach
California State University, Long Beach is a large public university in Long Beach known for its diverse student body, strong academic programs, and prominent role within the California State University system.
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Santa Clara University
Santa Clara University is a private Jesuit Catholic university in Santa Clara, California, known for its strong programs in business, engineering, and the liberal arts.
- 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: San Francisco State University Target entity description: San Francisco State University is a public university in San Francisco known for its diverse student body, strong liberal arts and social sciences programs, and history of student activism.
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San Jose State University
San Jose State University is a large public university in downtown San Jose known for its strong engineering, business, and professional programs and its role as a major feeder school for Silicon Valley.
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B.
California State University, Los Angeles
California State University, Los Angeles is a public university in Los Angeles known for its diverse student body, strong programs in fields such as criminal justice, business, and engineering, and its role as part of the California State University system.
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California State University, Sacramento
California State University, Sacramento is a large public university in California’s capital city, known for its diverse student body and strong programs in fields such as business, education, and public policy.
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California State University, Long Beach
California State University, Long Beach is a large public university in Long Beach known for its diverse student body, strong academic programs, and prominent role within the California State University system.
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Santa Clara University
Santa Clara University is a private Jesuit Catholic university in Santa Clara, California, known for its strong programs in business, engineering, and the liberal arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: San Francisco State University Description of subject: San Francisco State University is a public university in San Francisco known for its diverse student body, strong liberal arts and social sciences programs, and history of student activism.
Referenced by (144)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
California State University system
linked to: San Francisco State University
linked to: San Francisco State University
linked to: San Francisco State University
linked to: San Francisco State University
linked to: San Francisco State University
linked to: San Francisco State University
linked to: San Francisco State University
subject linked to:
San Francisco (via Wikimedia Foundation)
linked to: San Francisco State University
linked to: San Francisco State University