Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery
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The Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery was a 19th-century dental school in Philadelphia known for training early American dentists, including the famed gunfighter and dentist Doc Holliday.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9286351 — 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: Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery Context triple: [Doc Holliday, educatedAt, Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery]
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A.
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine is a prominent dental education and research institution in Boston known for training dentists and specialists and providing comprehensive oral health care.
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B.
UP College of Dentistry
UP College of Dentistry is the dental education and training institution of the University of the Philippines Manila, recognized as one of the country’s leading centers for dental research and professional practice.
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C.
Creighton University School of Dentistry
Creighton University School of Dentistry is a dental education institution in Omaha, Nebraska, known for its clinical training and Jesuit, service-oriented approach to oral health care.
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D.
Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Harvard School of Dental Medicine is a graduate dental school of Harvard University in Boston, renowned for its research-intensive programs and integration of dentistry with medicine and public health.
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E.
New York University College of Dentistry
New York University College of Dentistry is a major dental school in New York City known for its large clinical training programs and research in oral health.
- 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: Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery Target entity description: The Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery was a 19th-century dental school in Philadelphia known for training early American dentists, including the famed gunfighter and dentist Doc Holliday.
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A.
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine is a prominent dental education and research institution in Boston known for training dentists and specialists and providing comprehensive oral health care.
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B.
UP College of Dentistry
UP College of Dentistry is the dental education and training institution of the University of the Philippines Manila, recognized as one of the country’s leading centers for dental research and professional practice.
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C.
Creighton University School of Dentistry
Creighton University School of Dentistry is a dental education institution in Omaha, Nebraska, known for its clinical training and Jesuit, service-oriented approach to oral health care.
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D.
Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Harvard School of Dental Medicine is a graduate dental school of Harvard University in Boston, renowned for its research-intensive programs and integration of dentistry with medicine and public health.
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E.
New York University College of Dentistry
New York University College of Dentistry is a major dental school in New York City known for its large clinical training programs and research in oral health.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dental school
ⓘ
educational institution ⓘ medical school ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | oral health ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| city | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fieldOfStudy | dentistry ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
North America
ⓘ
Pennsylvania ⓘ Philadelphia ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| notableAlumnus | Doc Holliday NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlumnusOccupation |
dentist
ⓘ
gunfighter ⓘ |
| operationalPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| partOfHistoryOf |
dental education in the United States
ⓘ
medical education in Philadelphia ⓘ |
| region | Northeastern United States ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
| specialization | dental surgery ⓘ |
| state | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
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: Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery Description of subject: The Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery was a 19th-century dental school in Philadelphia known for training early American dentists, including the famed gunfighter and dentist Doc Holliday.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.