Southern College of Optometry
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Southern College of Optometry is a private optometry school in Memphis, Tennessee, known for training doctors of optometry and providing comprehensive eye care education and clinical services.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Southern College of Optometry canonical | 1 |
| The Eye Center at Southern College of Optometry | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11487496 — 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: Southern College of Optometry Context triple: [Herbert Wertheim, educatedAt, Southern College of Optometry]
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A.
Arizona College of Optometry
Arizona College of Optometry is a professional school that educates and trains future optometrists as part of Midwestern University’s health sciences programs.
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B.
Michigan College of Optometry
Michigan College of Optometry is a professional optometry school known for training doctors of optometry and providing eye care education and clinical services.
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C.
SUNY College of Optometry
SUNY College of Optometry is a specialized public professional school in New York City that focuses on optometric education, vision science research, and eye care services.
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D.
College of Optometry
The College of Optometry is Nova Southeastern University's professional school dedicated to educating and training future optometrists and advancing vision care through clinical practice and research.
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E.
College of Optometry
The College of Optometry is the University of Houston’s professional school dedicated to educating optometrists and advancing vision science research and eye care.
- 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: Southern College of Optometry Target entity description: Southern College of Optometry is a private optometry school in Memphis, Tennessee, known for training doctors of optometry and providing comprehensive eye care education and clinical services.
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A.
Arizona College of Optometry
Arizona College of Optometry is a professional school that educates and trains future optometrists as part of Midwestern University’s health sciences programs.
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B.
Michigan College of Optometry
Michigan College of Optometry is a professional optometry school known for training doctors of optometry and providing eye care education and clinical services.
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C.
SUNY College of Optometry
SUNY College of Optometry is a specialized public professional school in New York City that focuses on optometric education, vision science research, and eye care services.
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D.
College of Optometry
The College of Optometry is Nova Southeastern University's professional school dedicated to educating and training future optometrists and advancing vision care through clinical practice and research.
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E.
College of Optometry
The College of Optometry is the University of Houston’s professional school dedicated to educating optometrists and advancing vision science research and eye care.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
nonprofit institution
ⓘ
optometry school ⓘ private college ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SCO ⓘ |
| accreditedBy |
Accreditation Council on Optometric Education
ⓘ
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges ⓘ |
| campusSetting | urban ⓘ |
| city | Memphis ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fieldOfStudy | optometry ⓘ |
| focusesOn | training doctors of optometry ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1932 ⓘ |
| governedBy | board of trustees ⓘ |
| hasAlumni | doctors of optometry practicing across the United States ⓘ |
| hasClinic |
The Eye Center at Southern College of Optometry
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern College of Optometry
|
| hasFacility |
The Eye Center
ⓘ
clinical training laboratories ⓘ vision therapy facilities ⓘ |
| hasLibrary | optometric and vision science library ⓘ |
| hasProgram | residency programs in optometry specialties ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Midtown Memphis ⓘ |
| motto | Changing how the world sees ⓘ |
| nonprofitStatus | independent nonprofit institution ⓘ |
| offersDegree | Doctor of Optometry ⓘ |
| offersFinancialAid |
grants
ⓘ
scholarships ⓘ student loans ⓘ |
| offersService | community outreach eye care ⓘ |
| provides |
clinical eye care services
ⓘ
optometric education ⓘ |
| regionServed | Mid-South ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
contact lenses
ⓘ
ocular disease management ⓘ pediatric optometry ⓘ primary eye care ⓘ vision therapy and rehabilitation ⓘ |
| state | Tennessee ⓘ |
| type | private ⓘ |
| website | https://www.sco.edu ⓘ |
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: Southern College of Optometry Description of subject: Southern College of Optometry is a private optometry school in Memphis, Tennessee, known for training doctors of optometry and providing comprehensive eye care education and clinical services.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Southern College of Optometry