St. Thomas Aquinas High School (New Britain, Connecticut)
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St. Thomas Aquinas High School in New Britain, Connecticut, is a former Catholic secondary school best known for being the alma mater of NBA player Lamar Odom.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| St. Thomas Aquinas High School (New Britain, Connecticut) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5797887 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: St. Thomas Aquinas High School (New Britain, Connecticut) Context triple: [Lamar Odom, highSchool, St. Thomas Aquinas High School (New Britain, Connecticut)]
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St. Thomas Aquinas High School (Fort Lauderdale)
St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale is a prominent Catholic college-preparatory school nationally recognized for its powerhouse athletics programs and strong academic reputation.
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B.
Collegiate School of Connecticut
The Collegiate School of Connecticut was the early name for what became Yale University, a prestigious Ivy League institution of higher education in New Haven, Connecticut.
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C.
Newtown High School
Newtown High School is a public secondary school serving students in grades 9–12 in the town of Newtown, Connecticut.
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Marist High School
Marist High School is a private Catholic college-preparatory high school in Chicago known for its strong academics and competitive athletics.
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E.
Cardinal Newman High School
Cardinal Newman High School is a Roman Catholic secondary school located in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: St. Thomas Aquinas High School (New Britain, Connecticut) Target entity description: St. Thomas Aquinas High School in New Britain, Connecticut, is a former Catholic secondary school best known for being the alma mater of NBA player Lamar Odom.
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A.
St. Thomas Aquinas High School (Fort Lauderdale)
St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale is a prominent Catholic college-preparatory school nationally recognized for its powerhouse athletics programs and strong academic reputation.
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B.
Collegiate School of Connecticut
The Collegiate School of Connecticut was the early name for what became Yale University, a prestigious Ivy League institution of higher education in New Haven, Connecticut.
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C.
Newtown High School
Newtown High School is a public secondary school serving students in grades 9–12 in the town of Newtown, Connecticut.
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D.
Marist High School
Marist High School is a private Catholic college-preparatory high school in Chicago known for its strong academics and competitive athletics.
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E.
Cardinal Newman High School
Cardinal Newman High School is a Roman Catholic secondary school located in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic high school
ⓘ
defunct school ⓘ secondary school ⓘ |
| city |
New Britain
ⓘ
linked to:
New Britain, Connecticut
|
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| denomination | Catholic ⓘ |
| educationLevel | grades 9–12 ⓘ |
| educationSystem | U.S. Catholic school system ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the alma mater of NBA player Lamar Odom ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Connecticut
ⓘ
Hartford County, Connecticut ⓘ
linked to:
Hartford County
New Britain, Connecticut ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Thomas Aquinas
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Thomas Aquinas
|
| namedForOccupation | Catholic theologian and philosopher ⓘ |
| notableAlumnus | Lamar Odom ⓘ |
| patronSaint |
Thomas Aquinas
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Thomas Aquinas
|
| regionServed | New Britain metropolitan area ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Roman Catholic Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
|
| schoolType |
coeducational school
ⓘ
private school ⓘ |
| sector | parochial school ⓘ |
| state | Connecticut ⓘ |
| status | closed ⓘ |
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: St. Thomas Aquinas High School (New Britain, Connecticut) Description of subject: St. Thomas Aquinas High School in New Britain, Connecticut, is a former Catholic secondary school best known for being the alma mater of NBA player Lamar Odom.
Referenced by (1)
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