Josephine Butler College
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Josephine Butler College is a modern, self-catered constituent college of Durham University known for its hilltop location and strong sense of community.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Josephine Butler College canonical | 5 |
| Josephine Butler College, Durham | 2 |
| Josephine Butler College, Durham University | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T491101 — 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: Josephine Butler College Context triple: [Durham University, hasCollege, Josephine Butler College]
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A.
Somerville College, Oxford
Somerville College, Oxford is a constituent college of the University of Oxford known for its progressive history and for educating notable figures including former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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B.
St. Hilda's College
St. Hilda's College is a constituent college of the University of Toronto known for its historic roots and close-knit academic community.
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C.
Girton College, Cambridge
Girton College, Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, historically notable as one of the first residential institutions in England to offer higher education to women.
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D.
University of Queen Mary London
The University of Queen Mary London is a major public research university in London renowned for its strong academic programs and membership in the prestigious Russell Group of leading UK universities.
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E.
St Stephen’s Hall
St Stephen’s Hall is a grand, historic interior space within the Palace of Westminster, notable for its Gothic Revival architecture and role as a ceremonial passageway in the UK Parliament.
- 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: Josephine Butler College Target entity description: Josephine Butler College is a modern, self-catered constituent college of Durham University known for its hilltop location and strong sense of community.
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A.
Somerville College, Oxford
Somerville College, Oxford is a constituent college of the University of Oxford known for its progressive history and for educating notable figures including former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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B.
St. Hilda's College
St. Hilda's College is a constituent college of the University of Toronto known for its historic roots and close-knit academic community.
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C.
Girton College, Cambridge
Girton College, Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, historically notable as one of the first residential institutions in England to offer higher education to women.
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D.
University of Queen Mary London
The University of Queen Mary London is a major public research university in London renowned for its strong academic programs and membership in the prestigious Russell Group of leading UK universities.
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E.
St Stephen’s Hall
St Stephen’s Hall is a grand, historic interior space within the Palace of Westminster, notable for its Gothic Revival architecture and role as a ceremonial passageway in the UK Parliament.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college
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constituent college of Durham University ⓘ |
| affiliation | Durham University ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Durham Students’ Union ⓘ |
| campusType | hilltop campus ⓘ |
| cateringModel | self-catered ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educationSystem | collegiate ⓘ |
| genderAdmission | co-educational ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
common rooms
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outdoor recreational areas ⓘ self-contained residential site ⓘ social spaces ⓘ student bar ⓘ study facilities ⓘ |
| hasGoverningBody | college council ⓘ |
| hasOrganization |
Junior Common Room
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Middle Common Room ⓘ Senior Common Room ⓘ |
| hasStudentBody |
postgraduate students
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undergraduate students ⓘ |
| knownFor |
modern facilities
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strong sense of community ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Durham
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England ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Josephine Butler ⓘ |
| offers |
postgraduate accommodation
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undergraduate accommodation ⓘ |
| partOf | Durham University collegiate system ⓘ |
| type | self-catered college ⓘ |
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: Josephine Butler College Description of subject: Josephine Butler College is a modern, self-catered constituent college of Durham University known for its hilltop location and strong sense of community.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Junior Common Room (Josephine Butler College)
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partOf
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Josephine Butler College, Durham University
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subject linked to:
Junior Common Room
linked to: Josephine Butler College
subject linked to:
Junior Common Room
subject linked to:
Senior Common Room
subject linked to:
Senior Common Room
Middle Common Room, Josephine Butler College
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partOf
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Josephine Butler College, Durham University
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subject linked to:
Middle Common Room
linked to: Josephine Butler College
subject linked to:
Middle Common Room
linked to: Josephine Butler College
linked to: Josephine Butler College