Scopes
E166441
Scopes is the surname of John T. Scopes, the American teacher famously tried in 1925 for teaching evolution in the landmark “Scopes Monkey Trial.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scopes canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1439922 — 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: Scopes Context triple: [John T. Scopes, familyName, Scopes]
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A.
SCS
SCS is Carnegie Mellon University's renowned School of Computer Science, recognized globally for pioneering research and education in computing and related fields.
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B.
SCAP
SCAP was the title held by General Douglas MacArthur as the top Allied authority overseeing the occupation and reconstruction of Japan after World War II.
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C.
oci
oci is the ISO 639-2 code for Occitan, a Romance language spoken primarily in southern France and parts of Italy and Spain.
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D.
Wavelengths
Wavelengths is the Toronto International Film Festival’s avant-garde and experimental cinema program, showcasing innovative and boundary-pushing works in film and video.
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E.
Several Circles
Several Circles is an abstract painting by Wassily Kandinsky that explores pure geometric forms and color relationships through a dynamic composition of overlapping circles.
- 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: Scopes Target entity description: Scopes is the surname of John T. Scopes, the American teacher famously tried in 1925 for teaching evolution in the landmark “Scopes Monkey Trial.”
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A.
SCS
SCS is Carnegie Mellon University's renowned School of Computer Science, recognized globally for pioneering research and education in computing and related fields.
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B.
SCAP
SCAP was the title held by General Douglas MacArthur as the top Allied authority overseeing the occupation and reconstruction of Japan after World War II.
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C.
oci
oci is the ISO 639-2 code for Occitan, a Romance language spoken primarily in southern France and parts of Italy and Spain.
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D.
Wavelengths
Wavelengths is the Toronto International Film Festival’s avant-garde and experimental cinema program, showcasing innovative and boundary-pushing works in film and video.
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E.
Several Circles
Several Circles is an abstract painting by Wassily Kandinsky that explores pure geometric forms and color relationships through a dynamic composition of overlapping circles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
court case
ⓘ
family name ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Scopes "Monkey" Trial
ⓘ
surface form:
Scopes Monkey Trial
|
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Scopes self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | John T. Scopes ⓘ |
| hasParticipant | John T. Scopes ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | teaching of evolution in public schools ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Scopes "Monkey" Trial
ⓘ
surface form:
Scopes Trial
|
| occupation | teacher ⓘ |
| usedBy | John T. Scopes ⓘ |
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: Scopes Description of subject: Scopes is the surname of John T. Scopes, the American teacher famously tried in 1925 for teaching evolution in the landmark “Scopes Monkey Trial.”
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John T. Scopes
subject surface form:
John T. Scopes