Cloister
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Cloister is an elite, invitation-only senior society at Yale University known for its exclusivity and longstanding campus traditions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cloister canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4612833 — 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: Cloister Context triple: [Yale senior societies, includes, Cloister]
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A.
Royal Cloister
The Royal Cloister is an ornate Gothic and Manueline-style cloister within Portugal’s Batalha Monastery, renowned for its intricate stonework and historical significance as part of a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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B.
Cloister Court
Cloister Court is a historic quadrangle within Jesus College, Cambridge, known for its cloistered walkways and traditional collegiate architecture.
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C.
Cloister Court
Cloister Court is one of the main historic quadrangles of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, known for its traditional collegiate architecture and enclosed courtyard layout.
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D.
Hume Cloister
Hume Cloister is a historically significant architectural work by Bernard Maybeck, exemplifying his distinctive Arts and Crafts–influenced design style.
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E.
Canon's Cloister
Canon's Cloister is a historic enclosed courtyard and residential complex traditionally associated with clergy, located within the Lower Ward.
- 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: Cloister Target entity description: Cloister is an elite, invitation-only senior society at Yale University known for its exclusivity and longstanding campus traditions.
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A.
Royal Cloister
The Royal Cloister is an ornate Gothic and Manueline-style cloister within Portugal’s Batalha Monastery, renowned for its intricate stonework and historical significance as part of a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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B.
Cloister Court
Cloister Court is a historic quadrangle within Jesus College, Cambridge, known for its cloistered walkways and traditional collegiate architecture.
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C.
Cloister Court
Cloister Court is one of the main historic quadrangles of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, known for its traditional collegiate architecture and enclosed courtyard layout.
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D.
Hume Cloister
Hume Cloister is a historically significant architectural work by Bernard Maybeck, exemplifying his distinctive Arts and Crafts–influenced design style.
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E.
Canon's Cloister
Canon's Cloister is a historic enclosed courtyard and residential complex traditionally associated with clergy, located within the Lower Ward.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
senior society
ⓘ
student organization ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | Yale College ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Yale senior societies ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasSelectionProcess | yes ⓘ |
| hasTradition |
exclusive gatherings
ⓘ
senior-year activities ⓘ society rituals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
exclusivity
ⓘ
longstanding campus traditions ⓘ |
| languageOfInstitution | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New Haven, Connecticut
ⓘ
Yale University ⓘ |
| membershipLevel | senior students ⓘ |
| membershipPolicy | invitation-only ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
prestige within Yale community
ⓘ
selective membership ⓘ |
| operatesWithin | Yale University campus ⓘ |
| organizationalType |
elite society
ⓘ
secret society ⓘ |
| selectionMethod | invitation ⓘ |
| socialFunction |
fostering campus traditions
ⓘ
networking among Yale seniors ⓘ |
| targetMembers | Yale seniors ⓘ |
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: Cloister Description of subject: Cloister is an elite, invitation-only senior society at Yale University known for its exclusivity and longstanding campus traditions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.