Lincoln Academy
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Lincoln Academy was a historically significant African-American preparatory school in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, that provided secondary education to Black students during the era of segregation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lincoln Academy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10586292 — 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: Lincoln Academy Context triple: [Ivan Dixon, educatedAt, Lincoln Academy]
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A.
Lincoln School
Lincoln School is a public K–8 school in Brookline, Massachusetts, known for serving the local community as part of the town’s public school system.
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B.
Lincoln Middle School
Lincoln Middle School is a public middle school serving students in the Berwyn North School District 98 area of Berwyn, Illinois.
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C.
Lincoln Junior High School
Lincoln Junior High School is a public middle school serving students in Skokie, Illinois, as part of the local community’s educational system.
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D.
Lincoln Community School
Lincoln Community School is a public elementary school serving students in the Bayonne School District in Bayonne, New Jersey.
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E.
Woodward Academy
Woodward Academy is a large independent college-preparatory school known for its rigorous academics and diverse student body in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
- 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: Lincoln Academy Target entity description: Lincoln Academy was a historically significant African-American preparatory school in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, that provided secondary education to Black students during the era of segregation.
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A.
Lincoln School
Lincoln School is a public K–8 school in Brookline, Massachusetts, known for serving the local community as part of the town’s public school system.
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B.
Lincoln Middle School
Lincoln Middle School is a public middle school serving students in the Berwyn North School District 98 area of Berwyn, Illinois.
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C.
Lincoln Junior High School
Lincoln Junior High School is a public middle school serving students in Skokie, Illinois, as part of the local community’s educational system.
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D.
Lincoln Community School
Lincoln Community School is a public elementary school serving students in the Bayonne School District in Bayonne, New Jersey.
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E.
Woodward Academy
Woodward Academy is a large independent college-preparatory school known for its rigorous academics and diverse student body in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African-American educational institution
ⓘ
historically Black preparatory school ⓘ secondary school ⓘ |
| accessPolicy | segregated school for Black students ⓘ |
| cityOrTown | Kings Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| educationLevel | secondary education ⓘ |
| ethos | uplift and advancement of African-American community through education ⓘ |
| focus | college preparatory curriculum for African-American students ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Jim Crow era education in the American South ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kings Mountain, North Carolina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Carolina ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| notableFor | advancing secondary education for Black students in North Carolina ⓘ |
| operatedDuring | era of racial segregation in the United States ⓘ |
| operatedUnder | racial segregation laws ⓘ |
| primaryLanguageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| primaryStudentDemographic | African-American youth ⓘ |
| roleInSociety | provided educational opportunities to Black students excluded from white schools ⓘ |
| schoolType |
boarding school
ⓘ
preparatory school ⓘ |
| servedCommunity |
African-American students
ⓘ
Black students ⓘ |
| significance | historically significant African-American preparatory school in North Carolina ⓘ |
| state | North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Lincoln Academy Description of subject: Lincoln Academy was a historically significant African-American preparatory school in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, that provided secondary education to Black students during the era of segregation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.