Overseas School of Colombo
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The Overseas School of Colombo is an international, English-medium school in Sri Lanka that primarily serves expatriate and local students with globally oriented curricula such as the International Baccalaureate.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Overseas School of Colombo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6383863 — 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: Overseas School of Colombo Context triple: [Mohamed Nasheed, educatedAt, Overseas School of Colombo]
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A.
S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia
S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia is a prestigious Anglican boys' school in Sri Lanka known for educating many of the country’s political and social leaders.
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B.
D. S. Senanayake College, Colombo
D. S. Senanayake College, Colombo is a prominent boys’ national school in Sri Lanka’s capital, named in honor of the country’s first Prime Minister, D. S. Senanayake.
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C.
Tembusu College
Tembusu College is a residential college within the National University of Singapore known for its interdisciplinary living–learning community and strong emphasis on intellectual inquiry and public discourse.
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D.
University of Colombo
The University of Colombo is a leading public research university in Sri Lanka’s capital city, renowned for its wide range of academic programs and significant contributions to higher education and scholarship in the country.
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E.
Raffles Institution
Raffles Institution is Singapore’s oldest and one of its most prestigious secondary schools, renowned for producing many of the nation’s political and intellectual leaders.
- 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: Overseas School of Colombo Target entity description: The Overseas School of Colombo is an international, English-medium school in Sri Lanka that primarily serves expatriate and local students with globally oriented curricula such as the International Baccalaureate.
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A.
S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia
S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia is a prestigious Anglican boys' school in Sri Lanka known for educating many of the country’s political and social leaders.
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B.
D. S. Senanayake College, Colombo
D. S. Senanayake College, Colombo is a prominent boys’ national school in Sri Lanka’s capital, named in honor of the country’s first Prime Minister, D. S. Senanayake.
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C.
Tembusu College
Tembusu College is a residential college within the National University of Singapore known for its interdisciplinary living–learning community and strong emphasis on intellectual inquiry and public discourse.
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D.
University of Colombo
The University of Colombo is a leading public research university in Sri Lanka’s capital city, renowned for its wide range of academic programs and significant contributions to higher education and scholarship in the country.
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E.
Raffles Institution
Raffles Institution is Singapore’s oldest and one of its most prestigious secondary schools, renowned for producing many of the nation’s political and intellectual leaders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educational institution
ⓘ
international school ⓘ |
| accreditation |
Council of International Schools
NERFINISHED
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International Baccalaureate Organization NERFINISHED ⓘ Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city | Colombo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| curriculum | International Baccalaureate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educationLevel |
pre-university education
ⓘ
primary education ⓘ secondary education ⓘ |
| focus |
globally oriented curriculum
ⓘ
international education ⓘ |
| followsCalendar | Northern Hemisphere school year ⓘ |
| governance | board of directors ⓘ |
| hasCampusType | urban campus ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
college-preparatory
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non-profit ⓘ |
| hasStudentBody | internationally diverse ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| offersProgramme |
IB Diploma Programme
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
IB Middle Years Programme NERFINISHED ⓘ IB Primary Years Programme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| offersQualification | International Baccalaureate Diploma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed | Colombo metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| schoolType |
co-educational
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day school ⓘ |
| servesStudentGroup |
expatriate students
ⓘ
local students ⓘ |
| subjectTaught |
arts
ⓘ
humanities ⓘ languages ⓘ mathematics ⓘ physical education ⓘ sciences ⓘ |
| targetOutcome | preparation for university admission worldwide ⓘ |
| usesAssessment | IB assessments ⓘ |
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: Overseas School of Colombo Description of subject: The Overseas School of Colombo is an international, English-medium school in Sri Lanka that primarily serves expatriate and local students with globally oriented curricula such as the International Baccalaureate.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.