former Perse School building on Free School Lane
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The former Perse School building on Free School Lane is a historic Cambridge structure now best known as the home of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| former Perse School building on Free School Lane canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5820197 — 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: former Perse School building on Free School Lane Context triple: [Whipple Museum of the History of Science, buildingUsed, former Perse School building on Free School Lane]
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A.
St Edmund’s Girls’ School (former)
St Edmund’s Girls’ School (former) was a secondary school for girls in Salisbury, England, that has since closed or been repurposed.
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B.
Woburn Street School
Woburn Street School is a public elementary school serving young students in the town of Wilmington, Massachusetts.
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C.
Brentwood School, Essex
Brentwood School, Essex is a historic independent day and boarding school in Brentwood, England, known for its strong academic reputation and notable alumni including author Douglas Adams.
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D.
Bedford Road School
Bedford Road School is a public elementary school serving young students in the Pleasantville, New York community.
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E.
King Edward’s School, Birmingham (former building)
King Edward’s School, Birmingham (former building) was a prominent 19th-century Gothic Revival school building in Birmingham, England, designed by architect Charles Barry.
- 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: former Perse School building on Free School Lane Target entity description: The former Perse School building on Free School Lane is a historic Cambridge structure now best known as the home of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science.
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A.
St Edmund’s Girls’ School (former)
St Edmund’s Girls’ School (former) was a secondary school for girls in Salisbury, England, that has since closed or been repurposed.
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B.
Woburn Street School
Woburn Street School is a public elementary school serving young students in the town of Wilmington, Massachusetts.
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C.
Brentwood School, Essex
Brentwood School, Essex is a historic independent day and boarding school in Brentwood, England, known for its strong academic reputation and notable alumni including author Douglas Adams.
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D.
Bedford Road School
Bedford Road School is a public elementary school serving young students in the Pleasantville, New York community.
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E.
King Edward’s School, Birmingham (former building)
King Edward’s School, Birmingham (former building) was a prominent 19th-century Gothic Revival school building in Birmingham, England, designed by architect Charles Barry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic building
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school building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Victorian architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Perse School
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linked to:
The Perse School
University of Cambridge ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridge University
Whipple Museum of the History of Science ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Cambridge
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Former school buildings in England ⓘ Museum buildings in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| currentTenant | Whipple Museum of the History of Science ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
exhibition space for history of science
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storage of scientific instruments ⓘ teaching space ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic structure ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridge
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linked to:
Cambridge, England
Cambridgeshire ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridgeshire, England
England ⓘ Free School Lane ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Perse School
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linked to:
The Perse School
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| notableFor |
being former premises of Perse School
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housing collections of historical scientific instruments ⓘ |
| occupant | Whipple Museum of the History of Science ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
University of Cambridge
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linked to:
Cambridge University
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| partOf |
University of Cambridge museum estate
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linked to:
University of Cambridge Museums
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| streetAddress | Free School Lane ⓘ |
| usedAs |
museum building
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school building ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: former Perse School building on Free School Lane Description of subject: The former Perse School building on Free School Lane is a historic Cambridge structure now best known as the home of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
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buildingUsed
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former Perse School building on Free School Lane
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