Sumner School (Washington, D.C.)
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Sumner School (Washington, D.C.) is a historic 19th-century public school building in Washington, D.C., recognized as one of the city’s earliest and most significant schools for African American children.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Sumner School (Washington, D.C.) | 1 |
| Sumner School (Washington, D.C.) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12978991 — 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: Sumner School (Washington, D.C.) Context triple: [Adolf Cluss, notableWork, Sumner School (Washington, D.C.)]
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A.
Henry L. Stimson Middle School
Henry L. Stimson Middle School is a public middle school serving students in the South Huntington area of Long Island, New York.
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B.
Anacostia High School
Anacostia High School is a public secondary school in Southeast Washington, D.C., serving students from the Anacostia and surrounding neighborhoods.
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C.
Farragut Middle School
Farragut Middle School is a public middle school serving students in the suburban community of Farragut, Tennessee.
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D.
District of Columbia Public Schools
District of Columbia Public Schools is the public school district responsible for providing K–12 education in Washington, D.C.
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E.
Farragut High School
Farragut High School is a public secondary school serving the community of Farragut, Tennessee, known for its strong academic programs and extracurricular offerings.
- 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: Sumner School (Washington, D.C.) Target entity description: Sumner School (Washington, D.C.) is a historic 19th-century public school building in Washington, D.C., recognized as one of the city’s earliest and most significant schools for African American children.
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A.
Henry L. Stimson Middle School
Henry L. Stimson Middle School is a public middle school serving students in the South Huntington area of Long Island, New York.
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B.
Anacostia High School
Anacostia High School is a public secondary school in Southeast Washington, D.C., serving students from the Anacostia and surrounding neighborhoods.
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C.
Farragut Middle School
Farragut Middle School is a public middle school serving students in the suburban community of Farragut, Tennessee.
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D.
District of Columbia Public Schools
District of Columbia Public Schools is the public school district responsible for providing K–12 education in Washington, D.C.
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E.
Farragut High School
Farragut High School is a public secondary school serving the community of Farragut, Tennessee, known for its strong academic programs and extracurricular offerings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century building
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historic school building ⓘ public school building ⓘ |
| architecturalPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| educationLevel | primary education ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | African American history in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| hasEthnicFocus | African American students ⓘ |
| hasFunction | school ⓘ |
| hasHeritageDesignation | historic school in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic building ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | District of Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Charles Sumner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | public school system of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| publicAccess | public school ⓘ |
| significance |
one of Washington, D.C.’s earliest schools for African American children
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one of Washington, D.C.’s most significant schools for African American children ⓘ |
| usedFor | education of African American children ⓘ |
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: Sumner School (Washington, D.C.) Description of subject: Sumner School (Washington, D.C.) is a historic 19th-century public school building in Washington, D.C., recognized as one of the city’s earliest and most significant schools for African American children.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Charles Sumner School (Washington, D.C.)