Sherborne School
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Sherborne School is a historic independent boarding school for boys in Sherborne, Dorset, England, known for its strong academic tradition and notable alumni.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sherborne School canonical | 22 |
| Old Shirburnian Society | 1 |
| Sherborne School, Dorset | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T446041 — 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: Sherborne School Context triple: [Alfred North Whitehead, educatedAt, Sherborne School]
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A.
Shrewsbury School
Shrewsbury School is a historic independent boarding school in England renowned for its academic excellence and strong sporting and cultural traditions.
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B.
Shrewsbury College
Shrewsbury College is a further education institution in Shrewsbury offering a range of vocational, technical, and academic courses for post-16 learners and adults.
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C.
Harrow School
Harrow School is a prestigious independent boarding school for boys in London, England, renowned for educating numerous prominent figures in British political and cultural life.
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D.
Bryanston School
Bryanston School is a prestigious co-educational independent boarding school in Dorset, England, known for its liberal ethos and strong emphasis on both academic and creative development.
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E.
Wellington College
Wellington College is a prestigious English public boarding school in Berkshire, known for its strong academic tradition and historic military associations.
- 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: Sherborne School Target entity description: Sherborne School is a historic independent boarding school for boys in Sherborne, Dorset, England, known for its strong academic tradition and notable alumni.
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A.
Shrewsbury School
Shrewsbury School is a historic independent boarding school in England renowned for its academic excellence and strong sporting and cultural traditions.
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B.
Shrewsbury College
Shrewsbury College is a further education institution in Shrewsbury offering a range of vocational, technical, and academic courses for post-16 learners and adults.
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C.
Harrow School
Harrow School is a prestigious independent boarding school for boys in London, England, renowned for educating numerous prominent figures in British political and cultural life.
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D.
Bryanston School
Bryanston School is a prestigious co-educational independent boarding school in Dorset, England, known for its liberal ethos and strong emphasis on both academic and creative development.
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E.
Wellington College
Wellington College is a prestigious English public boarding school in Berkshire, known for its strong academic tradition and historic military associations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Sherborne School Description of subject: Sherborne School is a historic independent boarding school for boys in Sherborne, Dorset, England, known for its strong academic tradition and notable alumni.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Old Shirburnian Society
subject surface form:
Education for Life
this entity surface form:
Sherborne School, Dorset