The Clearing Folk School
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The Clearing Folk School is a folk school and nature-focused educational center in Door County, Wisconsin, inspired by Danish folk high school traditions and emphasizing lifelong learning in a retreat-like setting.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Clearing Folk School canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11330040 — 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: The Clearing Folk School Context triple: [Jens Jensen, founded, The Clearing Folk School]
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A.
Highlander Folk School
Highlander Folk School is a historic social justice leadership training center in Tennessee that played a key role in the U.S. civil rights movement by educating and organizing activists.
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B.
Adirondack Folk School
Adirondack Folk School is a hands-on learning center in the Adirondack region that offers traditional arts, crafts, and outdoor skills classes reflecting the area’s cultural and natural heritage.
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C.
Woodberry Forest School
Woodberry Forest School is a private all-boys boarding school in Virginia known for its rigorous college-preparatory education and historic campus.
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D.
Mill O’ Forest School
Mill O’ Forest School is a primary school serving the community of Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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E.
Meadow School
Meadow School is an educational institution attended by American actor Brian Baumgartner, best known for his role as Kevin Malone on the U.S. version of "The Office."
- 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: The Clearing Folk School Target entity description: The Clearing Folk School is a folk school and nature-focused educational center in Door County, Wisconsin, inspired by Danish folk high school traditions and emphasizing lifelong learning in a retreat-like setting.
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A.
Highlander Folk School
Highlander Folk School is a historic social justice leadership training center in Tennessee that played a key role in the U.S. civil rights movement by educating and organizing activists.
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B.
Adirondack Folk School
Adirondack Folk School is a hands-on learning center in the Adirondack region that offers traditional arts, crafts, and outdoor skills classes reflecting the area’s cultural and natural heritage.
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C.
Woodberry Forest School
Woodberry Forest School is a private all-boys boarding school in Virginia known for its rigorous college-preparatory education and historic campus.
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D.
Mill O’ Forest School
Mill O’ Forest School is a primary school serving the community of Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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E.
Meadow School
Meadow School is an educational institution attended by American actor Brian Baumgartner, best known for his role as Kevin Malone on the U.S. version of "The Office."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
educational institution
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folk school ⓘ nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| educationalApproach |
community-based learning
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discussion-based learning ⓘ experiential learning ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
adult education
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arts and crafts ⓘ community living ⓘ humanities ⓘ lifelong learning ⓘ nature study ⓘ |
| focusesOn | nature-focused education ⓘ |
| followsEducationalPhilosophy | folk high school movement ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
art classes
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craft workshops ⓘ hiking ⓘ nature walks ⓘ writing workshops ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
informal learning environment
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no formal degrees ⓘ non-graded instruction ⓘ residential campus ⓘ |
| hasGoal |
connection with nature
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creative expression ⓘ intellectual growth ⓘ personal enrichment ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Danish folk high school tradition ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Door County, Wisconsin
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linked to:
Door County
Ellison Bay, Wisconsin ⓘ Midwestern United States ⓘ Wisconsin ⓘ |
| name | The Clearing Folk School ⓘ |
| offers |
non-credit courses
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short-term residential classes ⓘ workshops ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Door County
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Wisconsin ⓘ |
| settingType | retreat-like setting ⓘ |
| surroundedBy |
forests
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natural landscapes ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
adults
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lifelong learners ⓘ |
| typeOfCampus | rural campus ⓘ |
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: The Clearing Folk School Description of subject: The Clearing Folk School is a folk school and nature-focused educational center in Door County, Wisconsin, inspired by Danish folk high school traditions and emphasizing lifelong learning in a retreat-like setting.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The Clearing Folk School landscape (Ellison Bay, Wisconsin)
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The Clearing Folk School landscape (Ellison Bay, Wisconsin)
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