New York College for the Training of Teachers
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New York College for the Training of Teachers was the original name of what is now Teachers College, Columbia University, a pioneering institution in professional teacher education.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lincoln School of Teachers College | 1 |
| New York College for the Training of Teachers canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1060478 — 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: New York College for the Training of Teachers Context triple: [Teachers College, Columbia University, formerName, New York College for the Training of Teachers]
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A.
Wilson Collegiate Institute
Wilson Collegiate Institute was a 19th-century educational institution in Wilson, North Carolina, known for educating future U.S. Navy Secretary and newspaper editor Josephus Daniels.
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B.
Russell Sage College
Russell Sage College is a private liberal arts institution known for its career-focused undergraduate and graduate programs, with a main campus located in Troy, New York.
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C.
Charlotte College
Charlotte College was a public community college in Charlotte, North Carolina that later evolved into the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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D.
Cooper Union
Cooper Union is a prestigious private college in New York City known for its rigorous programs in art, architecture, and engineering and its historic commitment to accessible education.
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E.
City College of New York
The City College of New York is a public senior college of the City University of New York system, known for its rigorous academics, diverse student body, and historic role in providing accessible higher education.
- 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: New York College for the Training of Teachers Target entity description: New York College for the Training of Teachers was the original name of what is now Teachers College, Columbia University, a pioneering institution in professional teacher education.
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A.
Wilson Collegiate Institute
Wilson Collegiate Institute was a 19th-century educational institution in Wilson, North Carolina, known for educating future U.S. Navy Secretary and newspaper editor Josephus Daniels.
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B.
Russell Sage College
Russell Sage College is a private liberal arts institution known for its career-focused undergraduate and graduate programs, with a main campus located in Troy, New York.
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C.
Charlotte College
Charlotte College was a public community college in Charlotte, North Carolina that later evolved into the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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D.
Cooper Union
Cooper Union is a prestigious private college in New York City known for its rigorous programs in art, architecture, and engineering and its historic commitment to accessible education.
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E.
City College of New York
The City College of New York is a public senior college of the City University of New York system, known for its rigorous academics, diverse student body, and historic role in providing accessible higher education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
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: New York College for the Training of Teachers Description of subject: New York College for the Training of Teachers was the original name of what is now Teachers College, Columbia University, a pioneering institution in professional teacher education.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Teachers College, Columbia University
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formerName
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New York College for the Training of Teachers
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this entity surface form:
Lincoln School of Teachers College