School of Pythagoras
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The School of Pythagoras is a medieval stone building in Cambridge, regarded as the oldest surviving university-related structure in the city and now used by St John’s College.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| School of Pythagoras canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T706219 — 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: School of Pythagoras Context triple: [St John’s College, Cambridge, hasPart, School of Pythagoras]
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A.
School of Socrates
The School of Socrates was the informal circle of students and followers gathered around the philosopher Socrates in classical Athens, which later gave rise to several major Socratic schools of thought.
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B.
Lyceum of Aristotle
The Lyceum of Aristotle was an influential philosophical school in ancient Athens where Aristotle taught and developed many foundational ideas in logic, science, and metaphysics.
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C.
Pythagoreanism
Pythagoreanism is an ancient Greek philosophical and religious movement founded by Pythagoras, emphasizing the mystical significance of numbers, the harmony of the cosmos, and the transmigration of souls.
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D.
Paideia
Paideia is Reed College’s distinctive, student-driven festival of learning featuring informal classes, workshops, and events on a wide range of academic and non-academic topics.
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E.
Catechetical School of Alexandria
The Catechetical School of Alexandria was an influential early Christian educational center in Roman Egypt, renowned for its theological scholarship and biblical exegesis.
- 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: School of Pythagoras Target entity description: The School of Pythagoras is a medieval stone building in Cambridge, regarded as the oldest surviving university-related structure in the city and now used by St John’s College.
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A.
School of Socrates
The School of Socrates was the informal circle of students and followers gathered around the philosopher Socrates in classical Athens, which later gave rise to several major Socratic schools of thought.
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B.
Lyceum of Aristotle
The Lyceum of Aristotle was an influential philosophical school in ancient Athens where Aristotle taught and developed many foundational ideas in logic, science, and metaphysics.
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C.
Pythagoreanism
Pythagoreanism is an ancient Greek philosophical and religious movement founded by Pythagoras, emphasizing the mystical significance of numbers, the harmony of the cosmos, and the transmigration of souls.
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D.
Paideia
Paideia is Reed College’s distinctive, student-driven festival of learning featuring informal classes, workshops, and events on a wide range of academic and non-academic topics.
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E.
Catechetical School of Alexandria
The Catechetical School of Alexandria was an influential early Christian educational center in Roman Egypt, renowned for its theological scholarship and biblical exegesis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic building
ⓘ
medieval building ⓘ university-related building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | medieval architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
St John’s College community
ⓘ
Cambridge University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
|
| category |
Grade I listed buildings in Cambridge
ⓘ
buildings of the University of Cambridge ⓘ |
| city |
Cambridge, England
ⓘ
surface form:
Cambridge
|
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | example of early university-related architecture in Cambridge ⓘ |
| describedAs | oldest surviving university-related building in Cambridge ⓘ |
| earliestPossibleDate | circa 1200 ⓘ |
| hasAddressLocality | St John’s College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasConservation | subject to listed building regulations ⓘ |
| hasCurrentFunction | college accommodation and offices ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
medieval windows
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thick stone walls ⓘ timber roof structure ⓘ |
| hasHistoricFunction |
residential use
ⓘ
scholarly activities ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | named after Pythagoras of Samos ⓘ |
| hasUse |
college facilities
ⓘ
meeting rooms ⓘ teaching space ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Grade I listed building ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | protected building ⓘ |
| inception | 12th century ⓘ |
| isPartOf | historic core of Cambridge ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridge, England
ⓘ
surface form:
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire, England ⓘ
surface form:
Cambridgeshire
England ⓘ St John’s College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedNear | River Cam ⓘ |
| locatedOn | St John’s College grounds ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| notableFor |
age
ⓘ
association with University of Cambridge ⓘ |
| ownedBy | St John’s College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | St John’s College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | East of England ⓘ |
| roofMaterial | tile ⓘ |
| usedBy | St John’s College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
administrative purposes of St John’s College
ⓘ
college events ⓘ |
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: School of Pythagoras Description of subject: The School of Pythagoras is a medieval stone building in Cambridge, regarded as the oldest surviving university-related structure in the city and now used by St John’s College.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.