Dayton High School
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Dayton High School is the Tennessee public school where teacher John T. Scopes was charged in 1925 for teaching evolution, leading to the famous Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dayton High School canonical | 1 |
| Dayton public school (Tennessee) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1439937 — 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: Dayton High School Context triple: [John T. Scopes, employer, Dayton High School]
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A.
McKinley High School
McKinley High School is an American secondary school best known as the alma mater of Basketball Hall of Famer Jo Jo White.
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B.
Madison High School
Madison High School is a public secondary school serving students from Florham Park and surrounding communities in New Jersey.
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C.
Clinton High School
Clinton High School is a public secondary school serving students in the city of Clinton and surrounding areas in Anderson County, Tennessee.
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D.
Springfield High School
Springfield High School is a secondary school best known as the alma mater of former Major League Baseball catcher and World Series–winning manager Mike Scioscia.
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E.
Harry S. Truman High School
Harry S. Truman High School is a public high school in the Bronx, New York City, known for serving a diverse urban student body and producing notable alumni including music producer Swizz Beatz.
- 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: Dayton High School Target entity description: Dayton High School is the Tennessee public school where teacher John T. Scopes was charged in 1925 for teaching evolution, leading to the famous Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
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A.
McKinley High School
McKinley High School is an American secondary school best known as the alma mater of Basketball Hall of Famer Jo Jo White.
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B.
Madison High School
Madison High School is a public secondary school serving students from Florham Park and surrounding communities in New Jersey.
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C.
Clinton High School
Clinton High School is a public secondary school serving students in the city of Clinton and surrounding areas in Anderson County, Tennessee.
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D.
Springfield High School
Springfield High School is a secondary school best known as the alma mater of former Major League Baseball catcher and World Series–winning manager Mike Scioscia.
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E.
Harry S. Truman High School
Harry S. Truman High School is a public high school in the Bronx, New York City, known for serving a diverse urban student body and producing notable alumni including music producer Swizz Beatz.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public high school
ⓘ
secondary school ⓘ |
| associatedWithLaw | Butler Act ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| educationLevel | high school ⓘ |
| employedPerson | John T. Scopes ⓘ |
| employedPosition |
biology teacher
ⓘ
science teacher ⓘ |
| hasHeritage |
American legal history
ⓘ
history of science education in the United States ⓘ |
| hasStudent | John T. Scopes’s biology students ⓘ |
| hasUse | educational institution ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | site of events leading to the Scopes Monkey Trial ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| legalCaseLocation |
Scopes "Monkey" Trial
ⓘ
surface form:
Scopes Trial
|
| locatedIn | Dayton, Tennessee ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Rhea County, Tennessee
ⓘ
Tennessee ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | 1925 ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Scopes "Monkey" Trial
ⓘ
surface form:
Scopes Monkey Trial
Scopes "Monkey" Trial ⓘ
surface form:
Scopes Trial
|
| notableEventDate | 1925 ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the school where John T. Scopes taught evolution ⓘ |
| operatedBy | public school system of Dayton, Tennessee ⓘ |
| partOf |
Rhea County Schools
ⓘ
surface form:
Rhea County public schools
|
| subjectTaught |
biology
ⓘ
evolution ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
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: Dayton High School Description of subject: Dayton High School is the Tennessee public school where teacher John T. Scopes was charged in 1925 for teaching evolution, leading to the famous Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.