St John’s School, Porthcawl
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St John’s School, Porthcawl is an independent educational institution in Porthcawl, Wales, known in part for having comedian and actor Eddie Izzard among its former pupils.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| St John’s School, Porthcawl canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4313768 — 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: St John’s School, Porthcawl Context triple: [Eddie Izzard, educatedAt, St John’s School, Porthcawl]
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A.
Pencoed Comprehensive School
Pencoed Comprehensive School is a secondary school in Pencoed, Wales, providing comprehensive education to local students.
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B.
Caldicot School
Caldicot School is a secondary education institution located in the town of Caldicot in Monmouthshire, Wales.
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C.
Carmarthen Academy
Carmarthen Academy was a prominent English Dissenting academy in Wales that provided higher education and ministerial training outside the established Anglican system.
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D.
Cwmbran High School
Cwmbran High School is a coeducational secondary school serving students from the town of Cwmbran in Torfaen, South Wales.
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E.
Port Talbot Secondary School
Port Talbot Secondary School was a Welsh secondary school best known for educating acclaimed actor Richard Burton.
- 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: St John’s School, Porthcawl Target entity description: St John’s School, Porthcawl is an independent educational institution in Porthcawl, Wales, known in part for having comedian and actor Eddie Izzard among its former pupils.
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A.
Pencoed Comprehensive School
Pencoed Comprehensive School is a secondary school in Pencoed, Wales, providing comprehensive education to local students.
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B.
Caldicot School
Caldicot School is a secondary education institution located in the town of Caldicot in Monmouthshire, Wales.
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C.
Carmarthen Academy
Carmarthen Academy was a prominent English Dissenting academy in Wales that provided higher education and ministerial training outside the established Anglican system.
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D.
Cwmbran High School
Cwmbran High School is a coeducational secondary school serving students from the town of Cwmbran in Torfaen, South Wales.
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E.
Port Talbot Secondary School
Port Talbot Secondary School was a Welsh secondary school best known for educating acclaimed actor Richard Burton.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educational institution
ⓘ
independent school ⓘ |
| country | Wales ⓘ |
| educationLevel |
primary education
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secondary education ⓘ |
| hasFormerPupil | Eddie Izzard ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bridgend County Borough
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Porthcawl ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| region | South Wales ⓘ |
| schoolType |
co-educational
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fee-paying ⓘ |
| sector | independent ⓘ |
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: St John’s School, Porthcawl Description of subject: St John’s School, Porthcawl is an independent educational institution in Porthcawl, Wales, known in part for having comedian and actor Eddie Izzard among its former pupils.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.