Miss Mary A. Shaw’s School, Boston
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Miss Mary A. Shaw’s School in Boston was a private educational institution known for providing a rigorous, refined education to girls from prominent New England families in the 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Miss Mary A. Shaw’s School, Boston canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6389827 — 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: Miss Mary A. Shaw’s School, Boston Context triple: [Maud Howe Elliott, educatedAt, Miss Mary A. Shaw’s School, Boston]
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A.
Mather School
Mather School is one of the oldest public elementary schools in the United States, historically serving the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
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B.
Emma Willard School
Emma Willard School is a historic, pioneering college-preparatory boarding and day school for girls in Troy, New York, renowned for its rigorous academics and early leadership in women's education.
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C.
Peabody School
Peabody School is a public elementary school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, serving students within the Cambridge Public Schools district.
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D.
Shawsheen Elementary School
Shawsheen Elementary School is a public primary school serving young students in the town of Wilmington, Massachusetts.
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E.
Byfield Female Seminary
Byfield Female Seminary was a pioneering early 19th-century New England school for women that helped shape leaders in the American female education movement, including Mary Lyon.
- 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: Miss Mary A. Shaw’s School, Boston Target entity description: Miss Mary A. Shaw’s School in Boston was a private educational institution known for providing a rigorous, refined education to girls from prominent New England families in the 19th century.
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A.
Mather School
Mather School is one of the oldest public elementary schools in the United States, historically serving the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
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B.
Emma Willard School
Emma Willard School is a historic, pioneering college-preparatory boarding and day school for girls in Troy, New York, renowned for its rigorous academics and early leadership in women's education.
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C.
Peabody School
Peabody School is a public elementary school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, serving students within the Cambridge Public Schools district.
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D.
Shawsheen Elementary School
Shawsheen Elementary School is a public primary school serving young students in the town of Wilmington, Massachusetts.
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E.
Byfield Female Seminary
Byfield Female Seminary was a pioneering early 19th-century New England school for women that helped shape leaders in the American female education movement, including Mary Lyon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educational institution
ⓘ
private girls' school ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| educationalLevel | secondary education ⓘ |
| genderFocus | girls ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| location | Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mary A. Shaw ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Mary A. Shaw ⓘ |
| regionServed | New England ⓘ |
| reputation |
refined education
ⓘ
rigorous education ⓘ |
| sector | private education ⓘ |
| studentBackground | prominent New England families ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: Miss Mary A. Shaw’s School, Boston Description of subject: Miss Mary A. Shaw’s School in Boston was a private educational institution known for providing a rigorous, refined education to girls from prominent New England families in the 19th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.