High School of Edinburgh
E195010
The High School of Edinburgh is a historic and prestigious secondary school in Edinburgh, Scotland, known for educating many prominent figures in Scottish public life.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| High School of Edinburgh canonical | 7 |
| Royal High School, Edinburgh | 3 |
| Edinburgh High School | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1731006 — 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: High School of Edinburgh Context triple: [Henry Dundas, educatedAt, High School of Edinburgh]
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A.
Coatbridge High School
Coatbridge High School is a secondary education institution serving pupils from the town of Coatbridge in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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B.
Kirkcaldy High School
Kirkcaldy High School is a long-established secondary school in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, serving local students with comprehensive education.
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C.
Kilmarnock Academy
Kilmarnock Academy is a secondary school in Kilmarnock, Scotland, known for serving the local community with comprehensive education for young people.
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D.
Cumbernauld College
Cumbernauld College was a further education institution in Cumbernauld, Scotland, offering vocational and academic courses to local and regional students.
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E.
Govan High School
Govan High School is a secondary school in Glasgow, Scotland, best known for educating future Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson.
- 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: High School of Edinburgh Target entity description: The High School of Edinburgh is a historic and prestigious secondary school in Edinburgh, Scotland, known for educating many prominent figures in Scottish public life.
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A.
Coatbridge High School
Coatbridge High School is a secondary education institution serving pupils from the town of Coatbridge in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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B.
Kirkcaldy High School
Kirkcaldy High School is a long-established secondary school in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, serving local students with comprehensive education.
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C.
Kilmarnock Academy
Kilmarnock Academy is a secondary school in Kilmarnock, Scotland, known for serving the local community with comprehensive education for young people.
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D.
Cumbernauld College
Cumbernauld College was a further education institution in Cumbernauld, Scotland, offering vocational and academic courses to local and regional students.
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E.
Govan High School
Govan High School is a secondary school in Glasgow, Scotland, best known for educating future Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educational institution
ⓘ
secondary school ⓘ |
| city | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| educationalLevel | secondary education ⓘ |
| educationSystem | Scottish education system ⓘ |
| hasAlumniCharacteristic | prominent in Scottish public life ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | historic institution ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
historic school
ⓘ
prestigious school ⓘ |
| hasType | high school ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Edinburgh
ⓘ
Edinburgh, Scotland ⓘ
linked to:
Edinburgh
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| notableFor | educating many prominent figures in Scottish public life ⓘ |
| operatesInJurisdiction |
Scotland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| region | Scotland ⓘ |
| sector | school education ⓘ |
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: High School of Edinburgh Description of subject: The High School of Edinburgh is a historic and prestigious secondary school in Edinburgh, Scotland, known for educating many prominent figures in Scottish public life.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: High School of Edinburgh
linked to: High School of Edinburgh
linked to: High School of Edinburgh
subject linked to:
1st Viscount Melville
linked to: High School of Edinburgh
linked to: High School of Edinburgh