Big Rapids Industrial School
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Big Rapids Industrial School was the original name of what is now Ferris State University, a public university in Big Rapids, Michigan.
All labels observed (1)
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| Big Rapids Industrial School canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11102046 — 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: Big Rapids Industrial School Context triple: [Ferris State University, formerName, Big Rapids Industrial School]
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A.
Oakwood Industrial School
Oakwood Industrial School was the original name of what is now Oakwood University, a historically Black Seventh-day Adventist institution of higher education in Huntsville, Alabama.
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B.
Big Rapids Public Schools
Big Rapids Public Schools is a public school district serving the educational needs of students in and around Big Rapids, Michigan.
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C.
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was a late 19th- and early 20th-century U.S. boarding school for Native American children, notorious for its assimilationist policies and influential football program.
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D.
Runkle School
Runkle School is a public K–8 elementary school located in Brookline, Massachusetts, serving students in the local community as part of the town’s public school system.
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E.
Meskwaki Settlement School
Meskwaki Settlement School is a tribally operated K–12 school serving the Meskwaki Nation community in the Meskwaki Settlement in Iowa.
- 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: Big Rapids Industrial School Target entity description: Big Rapids Industrial School was the original name of what is now Ferris State University, a public university in Big Rapids, Michigan.
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A.
Oakwood Industrial School
Oakwood Industrial School was the original name of what is now Oakwood University, a historically Black Seventh-day Adventist institution of higher education in Huntsville, Alabama.
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B.
Big Rapids Public Schools
Big Rapids Public Schools is a public school district serving the educational needs of students in and around Big Rapids, Michigan.
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C.
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was a late 19th- and early 20th-century U.S. boarding school for Native American children, notorious for its assimilationist policies and influential football program.
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D.
Runkle School
Runkle School is a public K–8 elementary school located in Brookline, Massachusetts, serving students in the local community as part of the town’s public school system.
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E.
Meskwaki Settlement School
Meskwaki Settlement School is a tribally operated K–12 school serving the Meskwaki Nation community in the Meskwaki Settlement in Iowa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
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: Big Rapids Industrial School Description of subject: Big Rapids Industrial School was the original name of what is now Ferris State University, a public university in Big Rapids, Michigan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.