John Sinclair House
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John Sinclair House is a notable Edinburgh office building that has served as the base for Scotland’s national body responsible for recording and protecting ancient and historical monuments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Sinclair House canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1297179 — 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: John Sinclair House Context triple: [Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, headquartersBuilding, John Sinclair House]
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A.
Blackwell House
Blackwell House is a historic 18th-century farmhouse on Roosevelt Island in New York City, recognized as one of the island’s oldest surviving buildings.
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B.
Henry House
Henry House is a historic home and key landmark on the Manassas National Battlefield in Virginia, associated with major Civil War fighting.
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C.
Baynard House
Baynard House is a large Brutalist office and telecommunications building in the City of London, notable for its imposing concrete design and riverside location near Blackfriars.
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D.
Blake House
Blake House is a historic residence and notable landmark located in the City of Fairfax, Virginia.
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E.
Kenwood House
Kenwood House is a historic neoclassical villa on the edge of Hampstead Heath in London, renowned for its impressive art collection and landscaped grounds.
- 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: John Sinclair House Target entity description: John Sinclair House is a notable Edinburgh office building that has served as the base for Scotland’s national body responsible for recording and protecting ancient and historical monuments.
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A.
Blackwell House
Blackwell House is a historic 18th-century farmhouse on Roosevelt Island in New York City, recognized as one of the island’s oldest surviving buildings.
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B.
Henry House
Henry House is a historic home and key landmark on the Manassas National Battlefield in Virginia, associated with major Civil War fighting.
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C.
Baynard House
Baynard House is a large Brutalist office and telecommunications building in the City of London, notable for its imposing concrete design and riverside location near Blackfriars.
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D.
Blake House
Blake House is a historic residence and notable landmark located in the City of Fairfax, Virginia.
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E.
Kenwood House
Kenwood House is a historic neoclassical villa on the edge of Hampstead Heath in London, renowned for its impressive art collection and landscaped grounds.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government building
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office building ⓘ |
| buildingUse | administrative offices ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Edinburgh
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Government buildings in Scotland ⓘ |
| cityDistrict |
New Town
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surface form:
New Town, Edinburgh
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| coordinateSystem | Ordnance Survey National Grid (approximate) ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| governingBody | Scottish Government ⓘ |
| hasFunction | office for national heritage body ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| heritageRole |
base for protecting ancient monuments
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base for protecting historical monuments ⓘ base for recording ancient monuments ⓘ base for recording historical monuments ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Edinburgh
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Scotland ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John Sinclair ⓘ |
| occupant |
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
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surface form:
RCAHMS
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland ⓘ |
| region | Lothian ⓘ |
| serves | national heritage protection in Scotland ⓘ |
| significance |
important centre for Scottish heritage recording
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notable Edinburgh office building ⓘ |
| usedBy | Scotland’s national body for ancient and historical monuments ⓘ |
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: John Sinclair House Description of subject: John Sinclair House is a notable Edinburgh office building that has served as the base for Scotland’s national body responsible for recording and protecting ancient and historical monuments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
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headquartersBuilding
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John Sinclair House
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