S. Thomas' College, Gurutalawa
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S. Thomas' College, Gurutalawa is a prominent Anglican boys’ boarding school in Sri Lanka, known as a rural branch of the historic S. Thomas’ College network.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| S. Thomas' College, Gurutalawa canonical | 3 |
| S. Thomas' College network | 1 |
| S. Thomas’ College, Gurutalawa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8327227 — 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: S. Thomas' College, Gurutalawa Context triple: [S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia, hasBranchSchool, S. Thomas' College, Gurutalawa]
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A.
S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia
S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia is a prestigious Anglican boys' school in Sri Lanka known for educating many of the country’s political and social leaders.
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B.
D. S. Senanayake College, Colombo
D. S. Senanayake College, Colombo is a prominent boys’ national school in Sri Lanka’s capital, named in honor of the country’s first Prime Minister, D. S. Senanayake.
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C.
Overseas School of Colombo
The Overseas School of Colombo is an international, English-medium school in Sri Lanka that primarily serves expatriate and local students with globally oriented curricula such as the International Baccalaureate.
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D.
Tembusu College
Tembusu College is a residential college within the National University of Singapore known for its interdisciplinary living–learning community and strong emphasis on intellectual inquiry and public discourse.
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E.
St. Thomas College
St. Thomas College is an educational institution that counts American photographer John Vachon among its alumni.
- 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: S. Thomas' College, Gurutalawa Target entity description: S. Thomas' College, Gurutalawa is a prominent Anglican boys’ boarding school in Sri Lanka, known as a rural branch of the historic S. Thomas’ College network.
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A.
S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia
S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia is a prestigious Anglican boys' school in Sri Lanka known for educating many of the country’s political and social leaders.
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B.
D. S. Senanayake College, Colombo
D. S. Senanayake College, Colombo is a prominent boys’ national school in Sri Lanka’s capital, named in honor of the country’s first Prime Minister, D. S. Senanayake.
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C.
Overseas School of Colombo
The Overseas School of Colombo is an international, English-medium school in Sri Lanka that primarily serves expatriate and local students with globally oriented curricula such as the International Baccalaureate.
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D.
Tembusu College
Tembusu College is a residential college within the National University of Singapore known for its interdisciplinary living–learning community and strong emphasis on intellectual inquiry and public discourse.
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E.
St. Thomas College
St. Thomas College is an educational institution that counts American photographer John Vachon among its alumni.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican school
ⓘ
boarding school ⓘ boys' school ⓘ secondary school ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia ⓘ |
| campusSetting | rural ⓘ |
| country | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| countryISO | LK ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of Ceylon ⓘ |
| educationLevel |
primary
ⓘ
secondary ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Church of Ceylon ⓘ |
| genderAdmission | boys ⓘ |
| hasAlumniAssociation | true ⓘ |
| hasBoardingFacilities | true ⓘ |
| hasHouseSystem | true ⓘ |
| hasReligiousCharacter | Christian ⓘ |
| isSingleSexEducation | true ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction |
English
ⓘ
Sinhala ⓘ Tamil ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Gurutalawa ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Badulla District
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Uva Province ⓘ |
| motto | Esto Perpetua ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Saint Thomas the Apostle
ⓘ
linked to:
Thomas the apostle
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| partOf |
S. Thomas' College network
ⓘ
linked to:
S. Thomas' College, Gurutalawa
|
| religiousAffiliation | Anglican ⓘ |
| religiousAuthority | Anglican Bishop of Colombo ⓘ |
| schoolType |
boarding
ⓘ
private ⓘ |
| studentGender | male ⓘ |
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: S. Thomas' College, Gurutalawa Description of subject: S. Thomas' College, Gurutalawa is a prominent Anglican boys’ boarding school in Sri Lanka, known as a rural branch of the historic S. Thomas’ College network.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: S. Thomas' College, Gurutalawa
linked to: S. Thomas' College, Gurutalawa