McBurney School
E424737
McBurney School was a private college-preparatory school in Manhattan, New York City, known for educating several notable alumni including actor Henry Winkler.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| McBurney School canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4256239 — 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: McBurney School Context triple: [Henry Winkler, educatedAt, McBurney School]
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A.
George B. Weatherbee School
George B. Weatherbee School is a public elementary school serving students in the town of Hampden, Maine.
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B.
Peter Woodbury School
Peter Woodbury School is a public elementary school serving young students in the Bedford, New Hampshire community.
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C.
Galvin Middle School
Galvin Middle School is a public middle school serving students in the town of Wakefield, Massachusetts.
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D.
Haggerty School
Haggerty School is a public elementary school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, serving students as part of the Cambridge Public Schools district.
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E.
South School
South School is a public elementary school serving early-grade students in the New Canaan, Connecticut community.
- 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: McBurney School Target entity description: McBurney School was a private college-preparatory school in Manhattan, New York City, known for educating several notable alumni including actor Henry Winkler.
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A.
George B. Weatherbee School
George B. Weatherbee School is a public elementary school serving students in the town of Hampden, Maine.
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B.
Peter Woodbury School
Peter Woodbury School is a public elementary school serving young students in the Bedford, New Hampshire community.
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C.
Galvin Middle School
Galvin Middle School is a public middle school serving students in the town of Wakefield, Massachusetts.
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D.
Haggerty School
Haggerty School is a public elementary school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, serving students as part of the Cambridge Public Schools district.
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E.
South School
South School is a public elementary school serving early-grade students in the New Canaan, Connecticut community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college-preparatory school
ⓘ
defunct school ⓘ private school ⓘ secondary school ⓘ |
| affiliation | YMCA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| campusSetting | urban ⓘ |
| category |
Defunct schools in New York City
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Preparatory schools in New York City ⓘ Private high schools in Manhattan ⓘ |
| closureReason |
declining enrollment
ⓘ
financial difficulties ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dissolved | 1988 ⓘ |
| foundedBy | YMCA of Greater New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genderAdmission |
boys
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co-educational ⓘ |
| gradesTaught | 7–12 ⓘ |
| hasAlumniType |
academics
ⓘ
actors ⓘ directors ⓘ writers ⓘ |
| hasMotto | “Not for ourselves alone” ⓘ |
| inception | 1916 ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| location |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Robert G. McBurney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Upper West Side NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlumnus |
Harvey Keitel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry Winkler NERFINISHED ⓘ Hume Cronyn NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason Robards NERFINISHED ⓘ John G. Avildsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert De Niro NERFINISHED ⓘ Ted Kaczynski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy | YMCA of Greater New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | YMCA of Greater New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | McBurney YMCA educational programs ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Christianity
ⓘ
Young Men’s Christian Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| schoolType |
college-preparatory
ⓘ
day school ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 15 West 63rd Street ⓘ |
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: McBurney School Description of subject: McBurney School was a private college-preparatory school in Manhattan, New York City, known for educating several notable alumni including actor Henry Winkler.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.