York Region District School Board
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The York Region District School Board is a large public school board in Ontario, Canada, responsible for administering elementary and secondary education across York Region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| York Region District School Board canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1300111 — 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: York Region District School Board Context triple: [Maple, Ontario, hasSchoolBoard, York Region District School Board]
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A.
Regional Municipality of Halton
The Regional Municipality of Halton is an upper-tier municipal government in Ontario, Canada, encompassing rapidly growing suburban and semi-rural communities west of Toronto, including Burlington, Oakville, Milton, and Halton Hills.
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B.
Regional Municipality of Peel
The Regional Municipality of Peel is a large upper-tier municipal government in Ontario, Canada, encompassing the cities of Mississauga and Brampton and the town of Caledon within the Greater Toronto Area.
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C.
Upper Canada College
Upper Canada College is a prestigious independent boys' school in Toronto, Canada, known for its rigorous academics and influential alumni.
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D.
University of Toronto Schools
University of Toronto Schools is a highly selective, university-preparatory secondary school in Toronto known for its rigorous academics and affiliation with the University of Toronto.
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E.
Regional Municipality of Durham
The Regional Municipality of Durham is a large upper-tier municipal region in Ontario, Canada, encompassing several cities and towns east of Toronto and providing regional services such as transit, policing, and planning.
- 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: York Region District School Board Target entity description: The York Region District School Board is a large public school board in Ontario, Canada, responsible for administering elementary and secondary education across York Region.
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A.
Regional Municipality of Halton
The Regional Municipality of Halton is an upper-tier municipal government in Ontario, Canada, encompassing rapidly growing suburban and semi-rural communities west of Toronto, including Burlington, Oakville, Milton, and Halton Hills.
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B.
Regional Municipality of Peel
The Regional Municipality of Peel is a large upper-tier municipal government in Ontario, Canada, encompassing the cities of Mississauga and Brampton and the town of Caledon within the Greater Toronto Area.
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C.
Upper Canada College
Upper Canada College is a prestigious independent boys' school in Toronto, Canada, known for its rigorous academics and influential alumni.
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D.
University of Toronto Schools
University of Toronto Schools is a highly selective, university-preparatory secondary school in Toronto known for its rigorous academics and affiliation with the University of Toronto.
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E.
Regional Municipality of Durham
The Regional Municipality of Durham is a large upper-tier municipal region in Ontario, Canada, encompassing several cities and towns east of Toronto and providing regional services such as transit, policing, and planning.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public school board
ⓘ
school district ⓘ |
| abbreviation | YRDSB ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Ministry of Education (Ontario)
ⓘ
surface form:
Ontario Ministry of Education
other Ontario school boards ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| educationLevel |
elementary
ⓘ
secondary ⓘ |
| employs |
educational support staff
ⓘ
school administrators ⓘ teachers ⓘ |
| follows | Ontario curriculum ⓘ |
| fundingSource | Government of Ontario ⓘ |
| governedBy | elected board of trustees ⓘ |
| governingBodyOf | schools in York Region ⓘ |
| governs |
public elementary schools in York Region
ⓘ
public secondary schools in York Region ⓘ |
| hasFocus | publicly funded, non-denominational education ⓘ |
| hasPolicyArea |
French as a Second Language programs
ⓘ
equity and inclusion ⓘ safe schools ⓘ special education ⓘ student achievement ⓘ |
| hasSchoolType |
alternative education programs
ⓘ
elementary school ⓘ secondary school ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | York Region, Ontario ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ontario
ⓘ
York Region, Ontario ⓘ
surface form:
York Region
|
| offers |
continuing education programs
ⓘ
kindergarten to grade 12 education ⓘ special education services ⓘ |
| operatesIn | Greater Toronto Area ⓘ |
| partOf | publicly funded education system in Ontario ⓘ |
| province | Ontario ⓘ |
| regionServed |
York Region, Ontario
ⓘ
surface form:
York Region
municipalities within York Region ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
administering elementary education in York Region
ⓘ
administering secondary education in York Region ⓘ student transportation services in its jurisdiction ⓘ |
| sector |
K–12 education
ⓘ
public education ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
Ministry of Education (Ontario)
ⓘ
surface form:
Ontario Ministry of Education
|
| typeOfOrganization | educational authority ⓘ |
| website | https://www2.yrdsb.ca/ ⓘ |
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: York Region District School Board Description of subject: The York Region District School Board is a large public school board in Ontario, Canada, responsible for administering elementary and secondary education across York Region.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Maple, Ontario