Punahou School
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Punahou School is a prestigious private K–12 college preparatory school in Honolulu, Hawaii, known for its rigorous academics, extensive extracurricular programs, and notable alumni including former U.S. President Barack Obama.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Punahou School canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5415259 — 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)
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Target entity: Punahou School Context triple: [Makiki, hasLandmark, Punahou School]
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A.
Kamehameha Schools
Kamehameha Schools is a private educational institution in Hawaii that primarily serves Native Hawaiian students and promotes Hawaiian culture, language, and community advancement.
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B.
Aiea High School
Aiea High School is a public secondary school serving students in the community of Aiea on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.
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C.
Aloha High School
Aloha High School is a public secondary school serving students in the suburban community of Aloha, Oregon.
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D.
Royal School (Honolulu)
Royal School (Honolulu) was an elite 19th-century educational institution in the Kingdom of Hawaii that primarily educated the children of Hawaiian royalty and nobility.
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E.
Hawaii Preparatory Academy
Hawaii Preparatory Academy is a private, college-preparatory K–12 boarding and day school located in Waimea on the Big Island of Hawaii.
- 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: Punahou School Target entity description: Punahou School is a prestigious private K–12 college preparatory school in Honolulu, Hawaii, known for its rigorous academics, extensive extracurricular programs, and notable alumni including former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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A.
Kamehameha Schools
Kamehameha Schools is a private educational institution in Hawaii that primarily serves Native Hawaiian students and promotes Hawaiian culture, language, and community advancement.
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B.
Aiea High School
Aiea High School is a public secondary school serving students in the community of Aiea on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.
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C.
Aloha High School
Aloha High School is a public secondary school serving students in the suburban community of Aloha, Oregon.
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D.
Royal School (Honolulu)
Royal School (Honolulu) was an elite 19th-century educational institution in the Kingdom of Hawaii that primarily educated the children of Hawaiian royalty and nobility.
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E.
Hawaii Preparatory Academy
Hawaii Preparatory Academy is a private, college-preparatory K–12 boarding and day school located in Waimea on the Big Island of Hawaii.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college preparatory school
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educational institution ⓘ independent school ⓘ private school ⓘ |
| affiliation | Interscholastic League of Honolulu ⓘ |
| alumnus |
Barack Obama
ⓘ
Bette Midler ⓘ DeForest Buckner ⓘ Hiram Bingham III ⓘ
linked to:
Hiram Bingham
Kelly Hu ⓘ Kirk Caldwell ⓘ Manti Teʻo ⓘ
linked to:
Manti Te’o
Michelle Wie West ⓘ Neil Abercrombie ⓘ Pierre Omidyar ⓘ Shoji brothers (volleyball players) ⓘ Sid Fernandez ⓘ Steve Case ⓘ Sun Yat-sen ⓘ
linked to:
Sun Yixian
|
| campusSize | approximately 76 acres ⓘ |
| campusType | urban ⓘ |
| city | Honolulu ⓘ |
| coeducation | coeducational ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| formerName | Oahu College ⓘ |
| founded | 1841 ⓘ |
| founder | Protestant missionaries ⓘ |
| governance | independent, non-profit ⓘ |
| grades | Kindergarten–12 ⓘ |
| island | Oahu ⓘ |
| knownFor |
extensive extracurricular programs
ⓘ
notable alumni ⓘ rigorous academics ⓘ strong athletics programs ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| location | Honolulu, Hawaii, United States ⓘ |
| lowerGrade | K ⓘ |
| mascot | Buffanblu ⓘ |
| name | Punahou School ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
historic roots in Hawaiian missionary era
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large contiguous campus in Honolulu ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
Advanced Placement courses
ⓘ
athletics program ⓘ music program ⓘ performing arts ⓘ service learning ⓘ visual arts ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliationOrigin | Protestant ⓘ |
| schoolColors |
blue
ⓘ
buff ⓘ |
| schoolType |
college preparatory
ⓘ
day school ⓘ |
| state | Hawaii ⓘ |
| upperGrade | 12 ⓘ |
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: Punahou School Description of subject: Punahou School is a prestigious private K–12 college preparatory school in Honolulu, Hawaii, known for its rigorous academics, extensive extracurricular programs, and notable alumni including former U.S. President Barack Obama.
Referenced by (11)
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