Penn's Sunday School
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Penn's Sunday School is a weekly podcast hosted by magician and entertainer Penn Jillette, featuring skeptical commentary, comedy, and discussions on religion, science, and culture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Penn's Sunday School canonical | 3 |
| Penn’s Sunday School podcast | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1923943 — 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: Penn's Sunday School Context triple: [Penn Jillette, notableWork, Penn's Sunday School]
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A.
The Quaker
The Quaker is the traditional, colonial-era–styled mascot representing the University of Pennsylvania and its athletic teams.
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B.
The Youth's Companion
The Youth's Companion was a popular late-19th- and early-20th-century American weekly magazine for young readers known for its patriotic and educational content.
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C.
The American Spelling Book
The American Spelling Book is Noah Webster’s hugely influential late-18th-century spelling primer that standardized American English orthography and became one of the best-selling books in U.S. history.
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D.
Port-Royal Grammar
Port-Royal Grammar is a 17th-century rationalist treatise on universal grammar that sought to explain the underlying logical structure common to all human languages.
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E.
Miss Barstow’s School
Miss Barstow’s School was a private girls’ school in Kansas City, Missouri, attended by future First Lady Bess Truman.
- 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: Penn's Sunday School Target entity description: Penn's Sunday School is a weekly podcast hosted by magician and entertainer Penn Jillette, featuring skeptical commentary, comedy, and discussions on religion, science, and culture.
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A.
The Quaker
The Quaker is the traditional, colonial-era–styled mascot representing the University of Pennsylvania and its athletic teams.
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B.
The Youth's Companion
The Youth's Companion was a popular late-19th- and early-20th-century American weekly magazine for young readers known for its patriotic and educational content.
-
C.
The American Spelling Book
The American Spelling Book is Noah Webster’s hugely influential late-18th-century spelling primer that standardized American English orthography and became one of the best-selling books in U.S. history.
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D.
Port-Royal Grammar
Port-Royal Grammar is a 17th-century rationalist treatise on universal grammar that sought to explain the underlying logical structure common to all human languages.
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E.
Miss Barstow’s School
Miss Barstow’s School was a private girls’ school in Kansas City, Missouri, attended by future First Lady Bess Truman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
audio program
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podcast ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Penn Jillette ⓘ |
| audience | adult listeners ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| distributionPlatform | podcast platforms ⓘ |
| features |
comedy segments
ⓘ
interviews ⓘ listener questions ⓘ |
| format |
monologue
ⓘ
panel discussion ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
skeptical commentary ⓘ talk show ⓘ |
| hasHostOccupation |
entertainer
ⓘ
magician ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
atheism
ⓘ
skepticism ⓘ |
| hostedBy | Penn Jillette ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | digital audio ⓘ |
| primaryTheme |
critical thinking
ⓘ
free thought ⓘ secularism ⓘ |
| releaseSchedule | weekly ⓘ |
| topic |
culture
ⓘ
religion ⓘ science ⓘ |
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: Penn's Sunday School Description of subject: Penn's Sunday School is a weekly podcast hosted by magician and entertainer Penn Jillette, featuring skeptical commentary, comedy, and discussions on religion, science, and culture.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Penn's Sunday School