Shaw Junior High School, Washington, D.C.
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Shaw Junior High School in Washington, D.C. was a public school notable for employing pioneering African American artist and educator Alma Thomas, where she taught art for several decades.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shaw Junior High School, Washington, D.C. canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4705291 — 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: Shaw Junior High School, Washington, D.C. Context triple: [Alma Thomas, employer, Shaw Junior High School, Washington, D.C.]
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A.
Walter Reed Middle School
Walter Reed Middle School is a public middle school located in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
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B.
Walter Reed Middle School
Walter Reed Middle School is a public middle school located in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
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C.
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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D.
McDougle Middle School
McDougle Middle School is a public middle school serving students in the Carrboro–Chapel Hill area of North Carolina.
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E.
Frederick Douglass Junior High School
Frederick Douglass Junior High School was a New York City public school notable for employing prominent Harlem Renaissance figures such as poet Countee Cullen as educators.
- 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: Shaw Junior High School, Washington, D.C. Target entity description: Shaw Junior High School in Washington, D.C. was a public school notable for employing pioneering African American artist and educator Alma Thomas, where she taught art for several decades.
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A.
Walter Reed Middle School
Walter Reed Middle School is a public middle school located in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
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B.
Walter Reed Middle School
Walter Reed Middle School is a public middle school located in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
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C.
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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D.
McDougle Middle School
McDougle Middle School is a public middle school serving students in the Carrboro–Chapel Hill area of North Carolina.
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E.
Frederick Douglass Junior High School
Frederick Douglass Junior High School was a New York City public school notable for employing prominent Harlem Renaissance figures such as poet Countee Cullen as educators.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art educator
ⓘ
artist ⓘ person ⓘ public school ⓘ secondary school ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| educationSystem | public education ⓘ |
| employed | Alma Thomas ⓘ |
| employer | Shaw Junior High School, Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| fieldOfWork | art education ⓘ |
| governingBody | District of Columbia Public Schools ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Robert Gould Shaw ⓘ |
| notableEmployee | Alma Thomas ⓘ |
| notableFor |
employing pioneering African American artist and educator Alma Thomas
ⓘ
linked to:
Alma Thomas
pioneering African American abstract art ⓘ |
| occupation | teacher ⓘ |
| schoolType | junior high school ⓘ |
| studentAgeRange | early adolescence ⓘ |
| taughtAt | Shaw Junior High School, Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| taughtSubject | art ⓘ |
| teachingTenure | several decades at Shaw Junior High School, Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Shaw Junior High School, Washington, D.C. Description of subject: Shaw Junior High School in Washington, D.C. was a public school notable for employing pioneering African American artist and educator Alma Thomas, where she taught art for several decades.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Shaw Junior High School, Washington, D.C.
subject linked to:
Shaw Junior High School, Washington, D.C.