The Vidette
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The Vidette is the student-run newspaper serving the Illinois State University community with campus news, features, and opinion content.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Vidette canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4284491 — 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: The Vidette Context triple: [Illinois State University, hasNewspaper, The Vidette]
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A.
Wilmington Morning Star
The Wilmington Morning Star was a local newspaper in Wilmington, North Carolina, known as an early workplace of prominent television newscaster David Brinkley.
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B.
The Spoils
The Spoils is a darkly comedic stage play by Jesse Eisenberg that explores privilege, insecurity, and fractured relationships among young urban adults.
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C.
The Sons of Katie Elder
The Sons of Katie Elder is a 1965 Western film starring John Wayne and Dean Martin, following four brothers who reunite in their Texas hometown to avenge their father's death and restore their family's honor.
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D.
The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers
The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers is a 17th-century painting by Dutch artist Jan de Baen depicting the brutal lynching and mutilated bodies of the republican statesmen Johan and Cornelis de Witt.
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E.
The Gray Lady
The Gray Lady is a longstanding nickname for The New York Times, reflecting its reputation as a serious, authoritative, and traditional American newspaper.
- 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: The Vidette Target entity description: The Vidette is the student-run newspaper serving the Illinois State University community with campus news, features, and opinion content.
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A.
Wilmington Morning Star
The Wilmington Morning Star was a local newspaper in Wilmington, North Carolina, known as an early workplace of prominent television newscaster David Brinkley.
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B.
The Spoils
The Spoils is a darkly comedic stage play by Jesse Eisenberg that explores privilege, insecurity, and fractured relationships among young urban adults.
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C.
The Sons of Katie Elder
The Sons of Katie Elder is a 1965 Western film starring John Wayne and Dean Martin, following four brothers who reunite in their Texas hometown to avenge their father's death and restore their family's honor.
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D.
The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers
The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers is a 17th-century painting by Dutch artist Jan de Baen depicting the brutal lynching and mutilated bodies of the republican statesmen Johan and Cornelis de Witt.
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E.
The Gray Lady
The Gray Lady is a longstanding nickname for The New York Times, reflecting its reputation as a serious, authoritative, and traditional American newspaper.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
newspaper
ⓘ
student newspaper ⓘ university newspaper ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | Illinois State University ⓘ |
| city | Normal, Illinois ⓘ |
| contentType |
campus news
ⓘ
features ⓘ opinion content ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre | college media ⓘ |
| hasSection |
features
ⓘ
news ⓘ opinion ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
online
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| name | The Vidette ⓘ |
| operatedBy | students of Illinois State University ⓘ |
| publisherType | student-run ⓘ |
| serves | Illinois State University community ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
Illinois State University alumni
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linked to:
Illinois State University
Illinois State University faculty ⓘ Illinois State University staff ⓘ Illinois State University students ⓘ |
| topic |
arts and entertainment
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campus events ⓘ sports ⓘ student life ⓘ university administration ⓘ |
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: The Vidette Description of subject: The Vidette is the student-run newspaper serving the Illinois State University community with campus news, features, and opinion content.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.