Howard College
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Howard College was the original name of Samford University, a private Christian university in Homewood, Alabama.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howard College canonical | 8 |
| Howard College football team | 1 |
| Howard College of Arts and Sciences | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4369131 — 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: Howard College Context triple: [Samford University, formerName, Howard College]
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A.
Weatherford College
Weatherford College is a public community college in Weatherford, Texas, known for providing two-year academic and vocational programs serving Parker County and the surrounding region.
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B.
Philander Smith University
Philander Smith University is a private historically Black liberal arts college located in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Tougaloo College
Tougaloo College is a historically Black liberal arts institution in Mississippi known for its pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement and its strong emphasis on social justice and academic excellence.
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D.
Stillman College
Stillman College is a private, historically Black liberal arts college located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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E.
Miles College
Miles College is a private historically Black liberal arts college located in Fairfield, Alabama.
- 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: Howard College Target entity description: Howard College was the original name of Samford University, a private Christian university in Homewood, Alabama.
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A.
Weatherford College
Weatherford College is a public community college in Weatherford, Texas, known for providing two-year academic and vocational programs serving Parker County and the surrounding region.
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B.
Philander Smith University
Philander Smith University is a private historically Black liberal arts college located in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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C.
Tougaloo College
Tougaloo College is a historically Black liberal arts institution in Mississippi known for its pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement and its strong emphasis on social justice and academic excellence.
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D.
Stillman College
Stillman College is a private, historically Black liberal arts college located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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E.
Miles College
Miles College is a private historically Black liberal arts college located in Fairfield, Alabama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
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: Howard College Description of subject: Howard College was the original name of Samford University, a private Christian university in Homewood, Alabama.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.