Academy at Tewkesbury

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The Academy at Tewkesbury was an 18th-century English dissenting academy known for training Nonconformist ministers and intellectuals outside the established universities.

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Academy at Tewkesbury canonical 1

Statements (37)

Predicate Object
instanceOf 18th-century school
dissenting academy
educational institution
accessPolicy open to Protestant Nonconformists
associatedWith Nonconformist ministry training
country Kingdom of Great Britain
curriculumIncludes classical studies
languages
philosophy
theology
educationalFocus training Nonconformist ministers
training intellectuals
educationalLevel higher education
excludedGroup members of the Church of England seeking university degrees
foundedInPeriod 18th century
historicalContext post-Toleration Act English religious dissent
historicalRole alternative to established universities for dissenters
historicalSignificance contributed to the education of Nonconformist clergy
part of the broader network of English dissenting academies
languageOfInstruction English
locatedIn England
Gloucestershire
Great Britain
Tewkesbury NERFINISHED
notAffiliatedWith University of Cambridge NERFINISHED
University of Oxford NERFINISHED
operatedBy English Dissenters NERFINISHED
partOf English dissenting academy movement
purpose to provide higher education for Nonconformists excluded from the universities
to train ministers for Nonconformist congregations
regionServed British Isles NERFINISHED
England
religiousTradition English Dissenters NERFINISHED
Protestant Nonconformism
sector nonconformist education
religious education
typeOfInstitution private academy

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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.
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Subject: Academy at Tewkesbury
Description of subject: The Academy at Tewkesbury was an 18th-century English dissenting academy known for training Nonconformist ministers and intellectuals outside the established universities.

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Thomas Secker educatedAt Academy at Tewkesbury