Albany Academy
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Albany Academy is a historic preparatory school in Albany, New York, known for educating notable figures including author Herman Melville.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Albany Academy canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1268964 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Albany Academy Context triple: [Herman Melville, educatedAt, Albany Academy]
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Albany Female Academy
Albany Female Academy was a 19th-century educational institution for women in Albany, New York, known for providing advanced academic instruction to young women, including future Stanford University co-founder Jane Stanford.
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DeWitt Clinton High School
DeWitt Clinton High School is a historic New York City public high school in the Bronx known for its large all-boys student body for much of its history and for producing many notable alumni, including writer James Baldwin.
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C.
Joel Barlow High School
Joel Barlow High School is a public secondary school serving students from the towns of Redding and Easton in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
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D.
Ardsley High School
Ardsley High School is a public high school in Ardsley, New York, known in part for having been attended by Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
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E.
White Plains High School
White Plains High School is a public high school in White Plains, New York, known in part for being the alma mater of Pro Football Hall of Famer Art Monk.
- 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: Albany Academy Target entity description: Albany Academy is a historic preparatory school in Albany, New York, known for educating notable figures including author Herman Melville.
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A.
Albany Female Academy
Albany Female Academy was a 19th-century educational institution for women in Albany, New York, known for providing advanced academic instruction to young women, including future Stanford University co-founder Jane Stanford.
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B.
DeWitt Clinton High School
DeWitt Clinton High School is a historic New York City public high school in the Bronx known for its large all-boys student body for much of its history and for producing many notable alumni, including writer James Baldwin.
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C.
Joel Barlow High School
Joel Barlow High School is a public secondary school serving students from the towns of Redding and Easton in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
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D.
Ardsley High School
Ardsley High School is a public high school in Ardsley, New York, known in part for having been attended by Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
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E.
White Plains High School
White Plains High School is a public high school in White Plains, New York, known in part for being the alma mater of Pro Football Hall of Famer Art Monk.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
boys' school
ⓘ
independent school ⓘ preparatory school ⓘ private school ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| educationLevel |
K–12
ⓘ
primary and secondary education ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1813 ⓘ |
| foundedInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| hasGenderAdmissionPolicy | boys only ⓘ |
| hasNotableAlumnus |
Charles B. Sedgwick
ⓘ
Charles E. Dudley NERFINISHED ⓘ Charles E. Hughes Jr. ⓘ
surface form:
Charles E. Hughes
Charles E. Hughes Jr. ⓘ Charles S. Fairchild ⓘ Eliot Spitzer ⓘ
surface form:
Eliot L. Spitzer
Erastus Corning 2nd ⓘ Frederick William Seward ⓘ
surface form:
Frederic W. Seward
George R. Lunn NERFINISHED ⓘ George W. Featherstonhaugh ⓘ George W. Schuyler ⓘ Harold L. Ickes ⓘ Henry R. Pierson NERFINISHED ⓘ Herman Knickerbocker ⓘ Herman Melville ⓘ James B. McKean NERFINISHED ⓘ John A. Griswold ⓘ John Boyd Thacher ⓘ John H. Ketcham NERFINISHED ⓘ John H. Martindale ⓘ John H. Reynolds NERFINISHED ⓘ John H. Reynolds (New York politician) ⓘ John T. Cutting NERFINISHED ⓘ John T. McDonough ⓘ John T. Norton NERFINISHED ⓘ John V. L. Pruyn ⓘ John Van Buren ⓘ John W. Dwight ⓘ Joseph Henry ⓘ Martin Henry Glynn ⓘ Philip Jeremiah Schuyler ⓘ
surface form:
Philip P. Schuyler
Robert F. Wagner ⓘ Robert H. Pruyn ⓘ Theodore Roosevelt III ⓘ
surface form:
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
William Gorham Rice ⓘ William Henry Seward Jr. ⓘ
surface form:
William H. Seward Jr.
William L. Marcy ⓘ William L. Marcy ⓘ
surface form:
William Learned Marcy
William P. Fessenden ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Albany
ⓘ
surface form:
Albany, New York
New York ⓘ
surface form:
New York (state)
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| schoolType | college preparatory ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Albany Academy Description of subject: Albany Academy is a historic preparatory school in Albany, New York, known for educating notable figures including author Herman Melville.
Referenced by (5)
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