Hole in the Wall experiment
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The Hole in the Wall experiment was an educational research project in which computers were placed in public walls for children to use freely, demonstrating that groups of children can teach themselves to use technology and learn collaboratively with minimal adult intervention.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hole in the Wall Education Project | 1 |
| Hole in the Wall experiment canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5070944 — 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: Hole in the Wall experiment Context triple: [Sugata Mitra, knownFor, Hole in the Wall experiment]
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Hole-in-the-Wall
Hole-in-the-Wall is a natural sea-carved rock arch and tidepool area on Washington’s Pacific coast, popular for coastal hikes and marine life viewing.
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Hole in the Wall
Hole in the Wall is a famous natural sea-arch rock formation along South Africa’s Wild Coast, known for its striking coastal scenery and cultural significance.
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People’s Living Lab
People’s Living Lab is the core theme of Expo 2025, envisioning the world’s fair as a large-scale experimental space where people, technologies, and ideas interact to co-create solutions for future society.
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D.
Internet Experiment Note 41
Internet Experiment Note 41 was an early ARPANET-era technical note that documented a predecessor version of the Internet Protocol later superseded and formalized by RFC 791.
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E.
One Laptop per Child
One Laptop per Child is an educational nonprofit initiative that aimed to provide low-cost, durable laptops to children in developing countries to support digital learning and bridge the global digital divide.
- 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: Hole in the Wall experiment Target entity description: The Hole in the Wall experiment was an educational research project in which computers were placed in public walls for children to use freely, demonstrating that groups of children can teach themselves to use technology and learn collaboratively with minimal adult intervention.
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A.
Hole-in-the-Wall
Hole-in-the-Wall is a natural sea-carved rock arch and tidepool area on Washington’s Pacific coast, popular for coastal hikes and marine life viewing.
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B.
Hole in the Wall
Hole in the Wall is a famous natural sea-arch rock formation along South Africa’s Wild Coast, known for its striking coastal scenery and cultural significance.
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C.
People’s Living Lab
People’s Living Lab is the core theme of Expo 2025, envisioning the world’s fair as a large-scale experimental space where people, technologies, and ideas interact to co-create solutions for future society.
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D.
Internet Experiment Note 41
Internet Experiment Note 41 was an early ARPANET-era technical note that documented a predecessor version of the Internet Protocol later superseded and formalized by RFC 791.
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E.
One Laptop per Child
One Laptop per Child is an educational nonprofit initiative that aimed to provide low-cost, durable laptops to children in developing countries to support digital learning and bridge the global digital divide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educational research project
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learning experiment ⓘ self-organized learning experiment ⓘ |
| aim |
to explore collaborative learning with minimal adult intervention
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to investigate how children learn to use computers without formal training ⓘ to study self-organized learning among children ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Hole in the Wall Education Project
NERFINISHED
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Hole-in-the-Wall project NERFINISHED ⓘ Minimally Invasive Education experiment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| demonstrated |
feasibility of minimally supervised learning with technology
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peer teaching among children using computers ⓘ spontaneous curriculum formation by children ⓘ |
| feature |
publicly accessible computer terminals embedded in walls
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shared computer use by groups of children ⓘ unrestricted access for children ⓘ |
| field |
child development
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cognitive science ⓘ education ⓘ educational technology ⓘ learning sciences NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
access to technology for disadvantaged children
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constructivist learning ⓘ digital divide ⓘ informal education ⓘ |
| hypothesis |
children can learn collaboratively with minimal adult guidance
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groups of children can teach themselves to use computers ⓘ |
| influenced |
debates on child-centered learning
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research on technology in education ⓘ |
| inspired |
Self-Organized Learning Environments
NERFINISHED
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Sugata Mitra's TED Prize wish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location |
Kalkaji slum, New Delhi
NERFINISHED
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New Delhi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| methodology |
informal learning
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minimally invasive education ⓘ naturalistic field experiment ⓘ self-directed learning ⓘ |
| operator | NIIT NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participant |
children from low-income communities
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children with little or no prior exposure to computers ⓘ |
| principalInvestigator | Sugata Mitra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| researcher | Sugata Mitra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| result |
children learned basic computer operations on their own
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children shared knowledge with peers ⓘ emergence of self-organized learning groups ⓘ improved digital literacy among participating children ⓘ |
| sponsor | NIIT NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startDate | 1999 ⓘ |
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: Hole in the Wall experiment Description of subject: The Hole in the Wall experiment was an educational research project in which computers were placed in public walls for children to use freely, demonstrating that groups of children can teach themselves to use technology and learn collaboratively with minimal adult intervention.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hole in the Wall Education Project