Minns Evening Normal School
E139365
Minns Evening Normal School was an early teacher-training institution in California that later evolved into what is now San Jose State University.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Minns Evening Normal School canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1224387 — 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: Minns Evening Normal School Context triple: [San Jose State University, formerName, Minns Evening Normal School]
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A.
Alvah A. Scott Elementary School
Alvah A. Scott Elementary School is a public primary school located in the community of Aiea on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.
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B.
Williams Elementary School
Williams Elementary School is a public primary school that serves young students within the Newton Public Schools district in Newton, Massachusetts.
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C.
Paumanok Elementary School
Paumanok Elementary School is a public primary school in the Half Hollow Hills Central School District on Long Island, New York, serving early childhood and elementary-grade students in the surrounding community.
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D.
T. L. Hanna High School
T. L. Hanna High School is a public high school in Anderson, South Carolina, known for its strong athletics programs and as the alma mater of Baseball Hall of Famer Jim Rice.
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E.
Estabrook Elementary School
Estabrook Elementary School is a public primary school in Lexington, Massachusetts, serving early-grade students within the Lexington Public Schools district.
- 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: Minns Evening Normal School Target entity description: Minns Evening Normal School was an early teacher-training institution in California that later evolved into what is now San Jose State University.
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A.
Alvah A. Scott Elementary School
Alvah A. Scott Elementary School is a public primary school located in the community of Aiea on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.
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B.
Williams Elementary School
Williams Elementary School is a public primary school that serves young students within the Newton Public Schools district in Newton, Massachusetts.
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C.
Paumanok Elementary School
Paumanok Elementary School is a public primary school in the Half Hollow Hills Central School District on Long Island, New York, serving early childhood and elementary-grade students in the surrounding community.
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D.
T. L. Hanna High School
T. L. Hanna High School is a public high school in Anderson, South Carolina, known for its strong athletics programs and as the alma mater of Baseball Hall of Famer Jim Rice.
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E.
Estabrook Elementary School
Estabrook Elementary School is a public primary school in Lexington, Massachusetts, serving early-grade students within the Lexington Public Schools district.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
normal school
ⓘ
teacher-training institution ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| educationSystem | California public higher education ⓘ |
| evolvedInto | San Jose State University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
teacher education
ⓘ
teacher training ⓘ |
| followedBy | California State Normal School ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor |
California State Normal School
ⓘ
San Jose State University ⓘ |
| hasType | evening normal school ⓘ |
| historicalRole | foundation of state-supported teacher education in California ⓘ |
| inception | 19th century ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
San Francisco ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Minns ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a predecessor of San Jose State University
ⓘ
being an early teacher-training institution in California ⓘ |
| operatedAs | evening school ⓘ |
| partOf | public education in California ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose | training teachers for California schools ⓘ |
| sector | public education ⓘ |
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: Minns Evening Normal School Description of subject: Minns Evening Normal School was an early teacher-training institution in California that later evolved into what is now San Jose State University.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.