Berkeley Blue
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Berkeley Blue is a deep navy shade that serves as one of the primary official colors representing the University of California, Berkeley.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Berkeley Blue canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T723795 — 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: Berkeley Blue Context triple: [UC Berkeley wordmarks, colorScheme, Berkeley Blue]
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A.
Yale Blue
Yale Blue is a deep, rich shade of blue traditionally associated with academic institutions and collegiate branding.
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B.
Duke blue
Duke blue is the distinctive deep royal blue shade associated with Duke University’s branding and athletic teams.
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C.
Oxford blue
Oxford blue is a dark, rich shade of navy traditionally associated with the University of Oxford and its sports teams.
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D.
Berkeley
Berkeley is a culturally vibrant and politically progressive city in California’s San Francisco Bay Area, known for its historic association with higher education and social activism.
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E.
the Blue
The Blue is the traditional nickname and spirit symbol representing Phillips Academy Andover’s athletic teams and school community.
- 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: Berkeley Blue Target entity description: Berkeley Blue is a deep navy shade that serves as one of the primary official colors representing the University of California, Berkeley.
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A.
Yale Blue
Yale Blue is a deep, rich shade of blue traditionally associated with academic institutions and collegiate branding.
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B.
Duke blue
Duke blue is the distinctive deep royal blue shade associated with Duke University’s branding and athletic teams.
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C.
Oxford blue
Oxford blue is a dark, rich shade of navy traditionally associated with the University of Oxford and its sports teams.
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D.
Berkeley
Berkeley is a culturally vibrant and politically progressive city in California’s San Francisco Bay Area, known for its historic association with higher education and social activism.
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E.
the Blue
The Blue is the traditional nickname and spirit symbol representing Phillips Academy Andover’s athletic teams and school community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
brand color
ⓘ
color ⓘ university color ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
UC Berkeley academic identity
ⓘ
UC Berkeley athletics ⓘ
linked to:
California Golden Bears athletics
UC Berkeley branding ⓘ |
| brightness | dark ⓘ |
| colorFamily | blue ⓘ |
| definedBy |
UC Berkeley brand guidelines
ⓘ
linked to:
UC Berkeley Brand and Marketing teams
|
| hasColorModel |
CMYK
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HEX ⓘ RGB ⓘ |
| isA |
deep navy color
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official color ⓘ shade of blue ⓘ |
| officialColorOf | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| pairedWith | California Gold ⓘ |
| partOf | UC Berkeley visual identity system ⓘ |
| role | primary official color ⓘ |
| saturation | deep ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
excellence at UC Berkeley
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stability ⓘ tradition at UC Berkeley ⓘ |
| usedBy | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| usedFor |
digital media at UC Berkeley
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merchandise at UC Berkeley ⓘ print media at UC Berkeley ⓘ |
| usedOn |
UC Berkeley athletic uniforms
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UC Berkeley logos ⓘ UC Berkeley printed materials ⓘ UC Berkeley signage ⓘ UC Berkeley websites ⓘ |
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: Berkeley Blue Description of subject: Berkeley Blue is a deep navy shade that serves as one of the primary official colors representing the University of California, Berkeley.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.