Noah Porter
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Noah Porter was a 19th-century American philosopher, theologian, and educator who served as president of Yale College.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Noah Porter canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5059528 — 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: Noah Porter Context triple: [Theodore Dwight Woolsey, notableStudent, Noah Porter]
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Taft School
Taft School is a prestigious private coeducational boarding and day preparatory school located in Watertown, Connecticut, known for its rigorous academics and strong athletics.
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Choate
Choate is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals in American legal, political, and educational history.
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Harvard School for Boys
Harvard School for Boys was a private preparatory school in New York City known for educating students from prominent families, including future actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
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Ezra Stiles College
Ezra Stiles College is one of Yale University's residential colleges, known for its distinctive modernist architecture and close-knit undergraduate community.
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Packer Collegiate Institute
Packer Collegiate Institute is a historic independent college-preparatory school in Brooklyn, New York, known for its rigorous academics and progressive educational tradition.
- 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: Noah Porter Target entity description: Noah Porter was a 19th-century American philosopher, theologian, and educator who served as president of Yale College.
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A.
Taft School
Taft School is a prestigious private coeducational boarding and day preparatory school located in Watertown, Connecticut, known for its rigorous academics and strong athletics.
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B.
Choate
Choate is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals in American legal, political, and educational history.
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C.
Harvard School for Boys
Harvard School for Boys was a private preparatory school in New York City known for educating students from prominent families, including future actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
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D.
Ezra Stiles College
Ezra Stiles College is one of Yale University's residential colleges, known for its distinctive modernist architecture and close-knit undergraduate community.
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E.
Packer Collegiate Institute
Packer Collegiate Institute is a historic independent college-preparatory school in Brooklyn, New York, known for its rigorous academics and progressive educational tradition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Noah Porter Description of subject: Noah Porter was a 19th-century American philosopher, theologian, and educator who served as president of Yale College.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.