Paterson City Normal School
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Paterson City Normal School was a teacher-training institution that evolved into what is now William Paterson University in New Jersey.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paterson City Normal School canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11886026 — 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: Paterson City Normal School Context triple: [William Paterson University, formerName, Paterson City Normal School]
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A.
Paterson public schools
Paterson Public Schools is the public school district serving students in the city of Paterson, New Jersey.
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B.
Patterson Elementary School
Patterson Elementary School is a public primary school in Illinois that serves students in kindergarten through fifth grade as part of the Indian Prairie School District 204.
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C.
Paton Elementary School
Paton Elementary School is a public primary school in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, serving early-grade students as part of the Shrewsbury Public Schools district.
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D.
Parsons Elementary School
Parsons Elementary School is a public primary school serving young students in North Brunswick Township, New Jersey.
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E.
L.D. Batchelder School
L.D. Batchelder School is a public elementary school serving early-grade students in the town of North Reading, Massachusetts.
- 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: Paterson City Normal School Target entity description: Paterson City Normal School was a teacher-training institution that evolved into what is now William Paterson University in New Jersey.
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A.
Paterson public schools
Paterson Public Schools is the public school district serving students in the city of Paterson, New Jersey.
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B.
Patterson Elementary School
Patterson Elementary School is a public primary school in Illinois that serves students in kindergarten through fifth grade as part of the Indian Prairie School District 204.
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C.
Paton Elementary School
Paton Elementary School is a public primary school in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, serving early-grade students as part of the Shrewsbury Public Schools district.
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D.
Parsons Elementary School
Parsons Elementary School is a public primary school serving young students in North Brunswick Township, New Jersey.
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E.
L.D. Batchelder School
L.D. Batchelder School is a public elementary school serving early-grade students in the town of North Reading, Massachusetts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
normal school
ⓘ
public university ⓘ teacher-training institution ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| field | teacher education ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Paterson, New Jersey
ⓘ
linked to:
Paterson
Wayne, New Jersey ⓘ |
| predecessorOf | William Paterson University ⓘ |
| state |
New Jersey
ⓘ
linked to:
New Jersey, United States
|
| successorOf | Paterson City Normal School ⓘ |
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: Paterson City Normal School Description of subject: Paterson City Normal School was a teacher-training institution that evolved into what is now William Paterson University in New Jersey.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Paterson City Normal School