Durham District School Board
E207570
The Durham District School Board is a public school board in Ontario, Canada, responsible for administering elementary and secondary education across much of the Durham Region, including Whitby.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Durham District School Board canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1856150 — 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: Durham District School Board Context triple: [Whitby, Ontario, hasSecondarySchoolBoard, Durham District School Board]
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A.
Toronto District School Board
The Toronto District School Board is the largest public school board in Canada, responsible for operating and overseeing a wide network of elementary and secondary schools in the city of Toronto.
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B.
Durham Public Schools
Durham Public Schools is the unified public school district serving students in Durham County, North Carolina.
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C.
York Region District School Board
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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D.
York Catholic District School Board
The York Catholic District School Board is a publicly funded Catholic school board in Ontario, Canada, responsible for administering Catholic education across the York Region.
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E.
Royal Albert Memorial College
Royal Albert Memorial College was a historic educational institution in Exeter, England, that served as a key predecessor to the modern University of Exeter.
- 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: Durham District School Board Target entity description: The Durham District School Board is a public school board in Ontario, Canada, responsible for administering elementary and secondary education across much of the Durham Region, including Whitby.
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A.
Toronto District School Board
The Toronto District School Board is the largest public school board in Canada, responsible for operating and overseeing a wide network of elementary and secondary schools in the city of Toronto.
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B.
Durham Public Schools
Durham Public Schools is the unified public school district serving students in Durham County, North Carolina.
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C.
York Region District School Board
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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D.
York Catholic District School Board
The York Catholic District School Board is a publicly funded Catholic school board in Ontario, Canada, responsible for administering Catholic education across the York Region.
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E.
Royal Albert Memorial College
Royal Albert Memorial College was a historic educational institution in Exeter, England, that served as a key predecessor to the modern University of Exeter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public school board
ⓘ
school district ⓘ |
| abbreviation | DDSB ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| educationLevel |
elementary
ⓘ
secondary ⓘ |
| fundingType | publicly funded ⓘ |
| governs |
public elementary schools in Durham Region
ⓘ
public secondary schools in Durham Region ⓘ |
| hasSchoolType |
adult and continuing education centre
ⓘ
elementary school ⓘ secondary school ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Whitby, Ontario ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | much of Durham Region ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Regional Municipality of Durham
ⓘ
surface form:
Durham Region
Ontario ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Ajax, Ontario
ⓘ
Brock, Ontario ⓘ Clarington ⓘ
surface form:
Clarington, Ontario
Oshawa ⓘ
surface form:
Oshawa, Ontario
Pickering, Ontario ⓘ Scugog, Ontario ⓘ Uxbridge, Ontario ⓘ Whitby, Ontario ⓘ |
| oversees | curriculum implementation in its schools ⓘ |
| province | Ontario ⓘ |
| regionServed | eastern Greater Toronto Area ⓘ |
| responsibleFor | administration of public education in its jurisdiction ⓘ |
| sector | K–12 education ⓘ |
| typeOfSchoolSystem | secular ⓘ |
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: Durham District School Board Description of subject: The Durham District School Board is a public school board in Ontario, Canada, responsible for administering elementary and secondary education across much of the Durham Region, including Whitby.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Woodlands, Pickering