University of St Andrews Library
E109742
The University of St Andrews Library is the main academic library system of the University of St Andrews in Scotland, housing extensive print and digital collections that support the university’s teaching and research.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| University of St Andrews Library canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T925431 — 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: University of St Andrews Library Context triple: [University of St Andrews, hasLibrary, University of St Andrews Library]
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A.
Edinburgh University Library
Edinburgh University Library is the main academic library system of the University of Edinburgh, housing extensive research collections and providing study and information services to students and scholars.
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B.
Glasgow University Library
Glasgow University Library is the main academic library of the University of Glasgow, housing extensive research collections and providing study and information services to students and staff.
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C.
Palace Green Library
Palace Green Library is a historic academic library complex in Durham, England, housing special collections and archives of Durham University near Durham Cathedral.
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D.
Cambridge University Library
Cambridge University Library is the principal research library of the University of Cambridge and one of the UK's legal deposit libraries, holding millions of books, manuscripts, and special collections.
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E.
St John’s College Library
St John’s College Library is the main academic and historic library of St John’s College, Cambridge, housing extensive scholarly collections and rare manuscripts for students and researchers.
- 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: University of St Andrews Library Target entity description: The University of St Andrews Library is the main academic library system of the University of St Andrews in Scotland, housing extensive print and digital collections that support the university’s teaching and research.
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A.
Edinburgh University Library
Edinburgh University Library is the main academic library system of the University of Edinburgh, housing extensive research collections and providing study and information services to students and scholars.
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B.
Glasgow University Library
Glasgow University Library is the main academic library of the University of Glasgow, housing extensive research collections and providing study and information services to students and staff.
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C.
Palace Green Library
Palace Green Library is a historic academic library complex in Durham, England, housing special collections and archives of Durham University near Durham Cathedral.
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D.
Cambridge University Library
Cambridge University Library is the principal research library of the University of Cambridge and one of the UK's legal deposit libraries, holding millions of books, manuscripts, and special collections.
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E.
St John’s College Library
St John’s College Library is the main academic and historic library of St John’s College, Cambridge, housing extensive scholarly collections and rare manuscripts for students and researchers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic library
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research library ⓘ university library system ⓘ |
| affiliation | University of St Andrews ⓘ |
| country |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
support for research
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support for teaching ⓘ |
| hasBranch |
J F Allen Library
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King James Library ⓘ Martyrs Kirk Research Library ⓘ Medical Library ⓘ St Mary’s College Library ⓘ |
| hasCollection |
archives
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databases ⓘ digital collections ⓘ e-books ⓘ electronic journals ⓘ manuscripts ⓘ photographic collections ⓘ print collections ⓘ rare books ⓘ special collections ⓘ |
| hasDigitalRepository | Yes ⓘ |
| hasMainBuilding | Main Library ⓘ |
| hasOnlineCatalogue | Yes ⓘ |
| hasSubjectStrength |
Scottish studies
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history ⓘ photography ⓘ science ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Fife
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St Andrews ⓘ |
| operatedBy | University of St Andrews ⓘ |
| partOf | University of St Andrews ⓘ |
| providesService |
access to electronic resources
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borrowing services ⓘ information literacy training ⓘ interlibrary loan ⓘ reference services ⓘ study spaces ⓘ |
| region | Europe ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
researchers
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staff of the University of St Andrews ⓘ students of the University of St Andrews ⓘ |
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: University of St Andrews Library Description of subject: The University of St Andrews Library is the main academic library system of the University of St Andrews in Scotland, housing extensive print and digital collections that support the university’s teaching and research.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.