Old Schools, Cambridge
E172381
Old Schools, Cambridge is a historic complex of university buildings in central Cambridge that traditionally housed the University of Cambridge’s administrative offices and ceremonial spaces.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Old Schools, Cambridge | 2 |
| Old Schools, Cambridge canonical | 1 |
| Old Schools, University of Cambridge | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1510857 — 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: Old Schools, Cambridge Context triple: [Senate House, Cambridge, locatedNear, Old Schools, Cambridge]
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A.
Schools of the University of Cambridge
The Schools of the University of Cambridge are the university’s highest-level academic groupings, organizing its various faculties and departments into broad disciplinary divisions.
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B.
Selwyn College, Cambridge
Selwyn College, Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge known for its strong academic community, distinctive red-brick Victorian architecture, and riverside location near the city’s Sidgwick Site.
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C.
Downing College, Cambridge
Downing College, Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge known for its neoclassical architecture and strong traditions in law and the humanities.
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D.
St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
St Edmund’s College, Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge known for admitting mature and postgraduate students from diverse international backgrounds.
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E.
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Trinity Hall, Cambridge is one of the oldest constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge, renowned for its historic riverside setting and strong academic tradition.
- 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: Old Schools, Cambridge Target entity description: Old Schools, Cambridge is a historic complex of university buildings in central Cambridge that traditionally housed the University of Cambridge’s administrative offices and ceremonial spaces.
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A.
Schools of the University of Cambridge
The Schools of the University of Cambridge are the university’s highest-level academic groupings, organizing its various faculties and departments into broad disciplinary divisions.
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B.
Selwyn College, Cambridge
Selwyn College, Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge known for its strong academic community, distinctive red-brick Victorian architecture, and riverside location near the city’s Sidgwick Site.
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C.
Downing College, Cambridge
Downing College, Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge known for its neoclassical architecture and strong traditions in law and the humanities.
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D.
St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
St Edmund’s College, Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge known for admitting mature and postgraduate students from diverse international backgrounds.
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E.
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Trinity Hall, Cambridge is one of the oldest constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge, renowned for its historic riverside setting and strong academic tradition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
University of Cambridge building
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historic building complex ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
NERFINISHED
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Great St Mary’s Church, Cambridge ⓘ Senate-House, Cambridge ⓘ
surface form:
Senate House, Cambridge
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| architecturalStyle |
Gothic Revival
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surface form:
Gothic Revival architecture
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| category |
Buildings and structures in Cambridge, England
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Buildings and structures of the University of Cambridge ⓘ History of the University of Cambridge ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | historic period ⓘ |
| hasFunction | central administration of the University of Cambridge ⓘ |
| hasPart |
administrative offices
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ceremonial rooms ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | listed building ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridge city centre
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Cambridge, England ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| near | Cambridge University colleges ⓘ |
| overlooks |
King’s Parade, Cambridge
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surface form:
King’s Parade
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| ownedBy |
Cambridge University
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surface form:
University of Cambridge
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| partOf |
Cambridge University
ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
|
| significance | traditional seat of university governance ⓘ |
| usedFor |
ceremonial functions
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meeting rooms ⓘ offices ⓘ university administration ⓘ |
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: Old Schools, Cambridge Description of subject: Old Schools, Cambridge is a historic complex of university buildings in central Cambridge that traditionally housed the University of Cambridge’s administrative offices and ceremonial spaces.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Senate House, Cambridge
this entity surface form:
The Old Schools, Cambridge
this entity surface form:
The Old Schools, Cambridge
this entity surface form:
Old Schools, University of Cambridge