The Rod to God
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The Rod to God is a colloquial nickname for the Spire of Dublin, a tall stainless-steel monument on O'Connell Street that serves as a prominent modern landmark in Ireland's capital.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Rod to God canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2302640 — 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: The Rod to God Context triple: [The Spire of Dublin, alsoKnownAs, The Rod to God]
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A.
The Gund
The Gund is the former name of Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, a major indoor sports and entertainment arena in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.
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B.
The Monolith
The Monolith is a towering granite sculpture in Oslo’s Vigeland installation, depicting a writhing column of intertwined human figures symbolizing the cycle of life.
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C.
The Star
The Star is the English title of Surah An-Najm, a chapter of the Qur’an that emphasizes the divine origin of revelation and the authority of the Prophet Muhammad.
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D.
The Star
The Star is a mixed-use development in Frisco, Texas that serves as the Dallas Cowboys’ headquarters and practice facility, surrounded by retail, dining, and entertainment venues.
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E.
The Star
The Star is a 1952 drama film starring Bette Davis as a fading Hollywood actress struggling with the loss of her fame and career.
- 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: The Rod to God Target entity description: The Rod to God is a colloquial nickname for the Spire of Dublin, a tall stainless-steel monument on O'Connell Street that serves as a prominent modern landmark in Ireland's capital.
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A.
The Gund
The Gund is the former name of Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, a major indoor sports and entertainment arena in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.
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B.
The Monolith
The Monolith is a towering granite sculpture in Oslo’s Vigeland installation, depicting a writhing column of intertwined human figures symbolizing the cycle of life.
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C.
The Star
The Star is the English title of Surah An-Najm, a chapter of the Qur’an that emphasizes the divine origin of revelation and the authority of the Prophet Muhammad.
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D.
The Star
The Star is a mixed-use development in Frisco, Texas that serves as the Dallas Cowboys’ headquarters and practice facility, surrounded by retail, dining, and entertainment venues.
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E.
The Star
The Star is a 1952 drama film starring Bette Davis as a fading Hollywood actress struggling with the loss of her fame and career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | nickname ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Monument of Light
ⓘ
The Spire ⓘ |
| appliedTo |
modern monument
ⓘ
stainless-steel monument ⓘ urban landmark ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Irish popular culture
ⓘ
O’Connell Street ⓘ
surface form:
O'Connell Street Upper
city centre of Dublin ⓘ |
| connotation | humorous ⓘ |
| hasHumourType |
ironic
ⓘ
playful ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| refersTo |
The Spire of Dublin
ⓘ
surface form:
Spire of Dublin
|
| refersToCity | Dublin ⓘ |
| refersToCountry | Ireland ⓘ |
| refersToFunction |
city landmark
ⓘ
tourist attraction ⓘ |
| refersToLightingFeature | illuminated spire at night ⓘ |
| refersToLocation |
O’Connell Street
ⓘ
surface form:
O'Connell Street
|
| refersToStructureHeight | about 120 metres ⓘ |
| refersToStructureMaterial | stainless steel ⓘ |
| register | colloquial ⓘ |
| topic |
nicknames of buildings and structures
ⓘ
public art ⓘ urban design ⓘ |
| usedBy |
locals in Dublin
ⓘ
visitors to Dublin ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Dublin
ⓘ
Ireland ⓘ |
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: The Rod to God Description of subject: The Rod to God is a colloquial nickname for the Spire of Dublin, a tall stainless-steel monument on O'Connell Street that serves as a prominent modern landmark in Ireland's capital.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.