Piazza della Scala
E101972
Piazza della Scala is a prominent square in central Milan, Italy, known for facing the famed La Scala opera house and hosting notable historic buildings and monuments.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Piazza della Scala canonical | 4 |
| Cathedral Square, Milan | 1 |
| Milan town square | 1 |
| Piazza della Scala, Milan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T824614 — 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: Piazza della Scala Context triple: [La Scala, locatedIn, Piazza della Scala]
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A.
Piazza Duomo
Piazza Duomo is the historic main square of Trento, Italy, renowned for its medieval architecture, cathedral, and vibrant civic life.
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B.
Piazza Castello
Piazza Castello is a central and historic square in Turin, Italy, renowned for its grand palaces, cultural institutions, and role as a focal point of city life.
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C.
Piazza Unità d’Italia
Piazza Unità d’Italia is a grand seafront square in Trieste, Italy, renowned as one of Europe’s largest city squares facing the sea and framed by elegant historic buildings.
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D.
Piazza San Carlo
Piazza San Carlo is a grand 17th-century baroque square in central Turin, renowned for its elegant arcades, twin churches, and vibrant café culture.
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E.
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is a 19th-century glass-vaulted shopping arcade in central Milan, renowned for its elegant architecture, luxury boutiques, and historic cafés.
- 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: Piazza della Scala Target entity description: Piazza della Scala is a prominent square in central Milan, Italy, known for facing the famed La Scala opera house and hosting notable historic buildings and monuments.
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A.
Piazza Duomo
Piazza Duomo is the historic main square of Trento, Italy, renowned for its medieval architecture, cathedral, and vibrant civic life.
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B.
Piazza Castello
Piazza Castello is a central and historic square in Turin, Italy, renowned for its grand palaces, cultural institutions, and role as a focal point of city life.
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C.
Piazza Unità d’Italia
Piazza Unità d’Italia is a grand seafront square in Trieste, Italy, renowned as one of Europe’s largest city squares facing the sea and framed by elegant historic buildings.
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D.
Piazza San Carlo
Piazza San Carlo is a grand 17th-century baroque square in central Turin, renowned for its elegant arcades, twin churches, and vibrant café culture.
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E.
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is a 19th-century glass-vaulted shopping arcade in central Milan, renowned for its elegant architecture, luxury boutiques, and historic cafés.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public square
ⓘ
square ⓘ |
| connectedBy | Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II ⓘ |
| connectedTo | Piazza del Duomo ⓘ |
| country | Italy ⓘ |
| faces |
La Scala
ⓘ
surface form:
Teatro alla Scala
|
| hasBuilding |
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II entrance
ⓘ
Palazzo Anguissola ⓘ Palazzo Beltrami ⓘ Palazzo Brentani ⓘ Palazzo Marino ⓘ Palazzo della Banca Commerciale Italiana ⓘ La Scala ⓘ
surface form:
Teatro alla Scala
|
| hasCategory |
Cultural infrastructure in Milan
ⓘ
Squares in Milan ⓘ Tourist attractions in Milan ⓘ |
| hasCityHallBuilding | Palazzo Marino ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
cultural hub
ⓘ
representative civic space ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| hasMonument | Monument to Leonardo da Vinci ⓘ |
| hasSculptorOfMainMonument | Pietro Magni ⓘ |
| hasStatueOf | Leonardo da Vinci ⓘ |
| hasUrbanForm | pedestrian square ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Monument to Leonardo da Vinci
ⓘ
surface form:
Leonardo da Vinci monument
historic palaces ⓘ proximity to La Scala opera house ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lombardy
ⓘ
Milan ⓘ central Milan ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
La Scala
ⓘ
surface form:
Teatro alla Scala
|
| overlooks |
La Scala
ⓘ
surface form:
Teatro alla Scala main façade
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| usedBy | pedestrians ⓘ |
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: Piazza della Scala Description of subject: Piazza della Scala is a prominent square in central Milan, Italy, known for facing the famed La Scala opera house and hosting notable historic buildings and monuments.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Milan town square
this entity surface form:
Cathedral Square, Milan
this entity surface form:
Piazza della Scala, Milan
subject surface form:
Piazza del Duomo (Milan)