Royal College, Colombo
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Royal College, Colombo is a prestigious and historic boys' public school in Sri Lanka renowned for educating many of the country's political and social leaders.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Royal College, Colombo canonical | 4 |
| Royal College Colombo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8844765 — 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: Royal College, Colombo Context triple: [Sir John Kotelawala, educatedAt, Royal College, Colombo]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Overseas School of Colombo
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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E.
S. Thomas' College, Bandarawela
S. Thomas' College, Bandarawela is a prominent Anglican boys' school in Bandarawela, Sri Lanka, affiliated with the historic S. Thomas' College network.
- 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: Royal College, Colombo Target entity description: Royal College, Colombo is a prestigious and historic boys' public school in Sri Lanka renowned for educating many of the country's political and social leaders.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Overseas School of Colombo
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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E.
S. Thomas' College, Bandarawela
S. Thomas' College, Bandarawela is a prominent Anglican boys' school in Bandarawela, Sri Lanka, affiliated with the historic S. Thomas' College network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
boys' school
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day school ⓘ national school ⓘ public school ⓘ secondary school ⓘ |
| ageRange | 6–19 ⓘ |
| alumniOrganization | Royal College Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| campusType | urban ⓘ |
| city | Colombo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| demonym | Royalist ⓘ |
| formerName |
Colombo Academy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Queen's College, Colombo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Hill Street Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder | Rev. Joseph Marsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1835 ⓘ |
| gender | boys ⓘ |
| governingAuthority | Ministry of Education of Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHouseSystem | true ⓘ |
| hasOldBoysAssociation | true ⓘ |
| hasRival | S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSchoolSong | School of our Fathers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostsEvent | Royal–Thomian cricket match NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isAmong | oldest schools in Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction |
English
ⓘ
Sinhala NERFINISHED ⓘ Tamil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cinnamon Gardens
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Colombo 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motto | Disce aut Discede ⓘ |
| mottoLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| mottoTranslation | Learn or Depart ⓘ |
| nickname | Royal ⓘ |
| notableFor |
educating many Sri Lankan political leaders
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educating many Sri Lankan social leaders ⓘ |
| principalTitle | Principal ⓘ |
| region | Western Province, Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | non-denominational ⓘ |
| schoolColours |
blue
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gold ⓘ royal blue ⓘ |
| schoolType |
government school
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non-fee-levying school ⓘ |
| sport |
athletics
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basketball ⓘ cricket ⓘ rugby union ⓘ swimming ⓘ tennis ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Royal College, Colombo Description of subject: Royal College, Colombo is a prestigious and historic boys' public school in Sri Lanka renowned for educating many of the country's political and social leaders.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
J. R. Jayewardene
this entity surface form:
Royal College Colombo