Lifelong Kindergarten research group
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The Lifelong Kindergarten research group is an MIT Media Lab team led by Mitchel Resnick that designs creative learning tools and environments, such as Scratch, to help people learn through playful, project-based exploration.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| MIT Media Lab Lifelong Kindergarten group | 2 |
| Lifelong Kindergarten Group | 1 |
| Lifelong Kindergarten group | 1 |
| Lifelong Kindergarten research group canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1739859 — 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: Lifelong Kindergarten research group Context triple: [Mitchel Resnick, knownFor, Lifelong Kindergarten research group]
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Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play
"Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play" is a book that explores how education and learning environments can be redesigned to foster creativity and playful, project-based learning throughout life.
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LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research
The LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research is an endowed professorship at the MIT Media Lab focused on innovative, constructionist approaches to education and learning technologies.
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Scratch Foundation
The Scratch Foundation is the nonprofit organization that supports and advances the Scratch programming language and its global educational community.
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MIT Design Lab
MIT Design Lab is a research and innovation group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused on exploring the intersection of design, technology, and human experience.
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Khan Lab School
Khan Lab School is an experimental independent school in California founded by Salman Khan that applies and extends the educational philosophies and practices behind Khan Academy in a physical classroom setting.
- 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: Lifelong Kindergarten research group Target entity description: The Lifelong Kindergarten research group is an MIT Media Lab team led by Mitchel Resnick that designs creative learning tools and environments, such as Scratch, to help people learn through playful, project-based exploration.
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A.
Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play
"Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play" is a book that explores how education and learning environments can be redesigned to foster creativity and playful, project-based learning throughout life.
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B.
LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research
The LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research is an endowed professorship at the MIT Media Lab focused on innovative, constructionist approaches to education and learning technologies.
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C.
Scratch Foundation
The Scratch Foundation is the nonprofit organization that supports and advances the Scratch programming language and its global educational community.
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MIT Design Lab
MIT Design Lab is a research and innovation group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused on exploring the intersection of design, technology, and human experience.
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E.
Khan Lab School
Khan Lab School is an experimental independent school in California founded by Salman Khan that applies and extends the educational philosophies and practices behind Khan Academy in a physical classroom setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
MIT Media Lab research group
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research group ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
democratize access to creative learning tools
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support creative thinking ⓘ support lifelong learning ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept | projects, passion, peers, play ⓘ |
| basedIn | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Lego
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surface form:
LEGO Company
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| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| developed |
Lego Mindstorms programming environments
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Scratch programming language ⓘ
surface form:
Scratch
ScratchJr ⓘ |
| field |
creative learning
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education ⓘ human-computer interaction ⓘ learning sciences ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
learning through making
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learning through play ⓘ peer collaboration in learning ⓘ project-based exploration ⓘ technology for children’s learning ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Mitchel Resnick ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Seymour Papert
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constructionism ⓘ |
| ledBy | Mitchel Resnick ⓘ |
| notableMember | Mitchel Resnick ⓘ |
| partOf | MIT Media Lab ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
constructionist learning
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creative learning tools ⓘ playful learning environments ⓘ project-based learning ⓘ |
| website | https://llk.media.mit.edu/ ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Lifelong Kindergarten research group Description of subject: The Lifelong Kindergarten research group is an MIT Media Lab team led by Mitchel Resnick that designs creative learning tools and environments, such as Scratch, to help people learn through playful, project-based exploration.
Referenced by (5)
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this entity surface form:
Lifelong Kindergarten group
LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research
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Lifelong Kindergarten research group
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this entity surface form:
MIT Media Lab Lifelong Kindergarten group
Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play
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Lifelong Kindergarten research group
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this entity surface form:
MIT Media Lab Lifelong Kindergarten group
this entity surface form:
Lifelong Kindergarten Group