San Diego Normal School
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San Diego Normal School was the original teacher-training institution that later evolved into San Diego State University.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| San Diego Normal School canonical | 1 |
| San Diego State Normal School | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1479287 — 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: San Diego Normal School Context triple: [San Diego State University, formerName, San Diego Normal School]
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A.
California State Normal School
California State Normal School was a 19th-century teacher-training institution that evolved into what is now San José State University, one of the oldest public universities on the U.S. West Coast.
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B.
La Jolla High School
La Jolla High School is a public secondary school in the coastal community of La Jolla, San Diego, known for its strong academics and competitive athletics.
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C.
Sequoia High School
Sequoia High School is a public secondary school known for serving a diverse student body in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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D.
San Diego Mesa College
San Diego Mesa College is a public community college in San Diego, California, known for its diverse academic programs and role as a transfer institution within the California Community Colleges system.
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E.
University of San Diego
The University of San Diego is a private Roman Catholic research university known for its Spanish Renaissance-style campus overlooking Mission Bay and its strong programs in law, business, and international relations.
- 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: San Diego Normal School Target entity description: San Diego Normal School was the original teacher-training institution that later evolved into San Diego State University.
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A.
California State Normal School
California State Normal School was a 19th-century teacher-training institution that evolved into what is now San José State University, one of the oldest public universities on the U.S. West Coast.
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B.
La Jolla High School
La Jolla High School is a public secondary school in the coastal community of La Jolla, San Diego, known for its strong academics and competitive athletics.
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C.
Sequoia High School
Sequoia High School is a public secondary school known for serving a diverse student body in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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D.
San Diego Mesa College
San Diego Mesa College is a public community college in San Diego, California, known for its diverse academic programs and role as a transfer institution within the California Community Colleges system.
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E.
University of San Diego
The University of San Diego is a private Roman Catholic research university known for its Spanish Renaissance-style campus overlooking Mission Bay and its strong programs in law, business, and international relations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public educational institution
ⓘ
teacher training college ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
San Diego State Normal School
ⓘ
linked to:
San Diego Normal School
|
| campusType | urban ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dissolvedOrAbolished | 1921 ⓘ |
| educationSystem | public higher education in California ⓘ |
| followedBy |
San Diego State College
ⓘ
linked to:
San Diego State University
San Diego State Teachers College ⓘ
linked to:
San Diego State University
San Diego State University ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
education
ⓘ
teacher education ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor | San Diego State University ⓘ |
| inception | 1897 ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| levelOfEducation | tertiary education ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
San Diego ⓘ |
| notableLegacy | foundation of San Diego State University ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
State of California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| originalFunction |
preparation of elementary school teachers
ⓘ
teacher training ⓘ |
| partOf |
California State University system predecessor institutions
ⓘ
linked to:
California State University system
|
| precededBy | San Diego State University’s institutional history ⓘ |
| regionServed |
San Diego County
ⓘ
Southern California ⓘ |
| sector | public ⓘ |
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: San Diego Normal School Description of subject: San Diego Normal School was the original teacher-training institution that later evolved into San Diego State University.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: San Diego Normal School